Groping Towards Ideas
Apr 12th, 2010 | By Dawn Rivers Baker | Category: Policy MattersThere are some days when it’s just about as much as you can do to get out of bed in the morning.
Like all nonemployer business owners, I too sometimes get that howling-into-the-wind feeling that is the precursor to flirting with burnout.
Nobody cares about microbusinesses but me, I tell myself. I don’t even know why I bother.
Of course, I know better than that. Some people do care about microbusinesses, quite a few of them in fact. On days when I’m feeling less whiny, I know that.
But I am as subject to those feel-sorry-for-yourself days as the next guy, days when it seems like my newsletters are a complete waste of time and when I start to think that between them the large corporate interests and the lawmakers they’ve bought will somehow manage to keep the meek from inheriting the earth — or, at least, the economy — as scheduled.
Those moods don’t last very long because, eventually, I take a look around.
Take this week’s microbusiness news, for example.
That National Broadband Plan leaves much to be desired when it comes to the particularly needs of microbusiness or even any awareness of the unique way in which microbusiness owners have been shown to use the Web.
But the FCC’s take on telework is modern and eco-friendly, and their description of it might almost be identical to the typical microbusiness/contractor scenario. It’s as if they’re on the right track, they almost have the idea. Just a little … bit … further …
From a practical point of view, there really isn’t any way for anybody to stop what is happening down here on the economic ground. It’s awkward for me that I got here ten years before anybody else did, that’s all.
And that’s why, every now and then, it’s nice when I can cover a story that shows how the powers-that-be continue to creep toward recognizing microbusinesses — even if they still don’t seem to fathom what it all means.
It’s coming. I just have to remember that.
Chin up, chest out….at least you’re not a micro in Alabama. Sometimes I feel Alabama really did secede. I got irritated reading an article about buying my own medical insurance. None of the options were available in 2 states…Mississippi & Alabama. I remember the old Alabama cheer …Thank God for Mississippi (least we be the most backward). Let us keep our street smarts about us, and keep on figuring-out the right plays within the system.
I beg your pardon ‘LEST’ (not ‘LEAST’) …Alabama Public School graduate.