NP: John Cage, 4'33"

I've got MSNBC on in the background in the apartment, on mute, and just walked by and saw a pair of news show host talking to a women, with the description beneath her explaining that "NJ woman decides to bake apple cakes for mortgage money." And I'm still a month and a half behind on Wired magazine, so I only just read a bit from Chris Anderson on the economy that stated:

"Involuntary entrepreneurship" is now creating tens of thousands of small businesses and a huge market of contract and freelance labor. Many will take full-time jobs again once they become available, but many others will choose not to.

I suddenly feel like I've missed a huge opportunity as a self-help guru, because holy crap, isn't this obvious? If you don't have a job, and you still have bills, you find some way to make money. I mean, what else do you do? Now, I have had conversations with people who look at me and how I've able to monetize certain things I know how to do when I've been without a full-time gig -- namely, play drums, but also writing, dabbling in voiceover, etc. -- and remark at how they don't have anything like that, but that seems like really conservative, defeatist thinking. Yes, there may be some degree of creativity involved in figuring out how to make money off of a hobby or a talent, but I suspect that most people have something, only they haven't figured it out yet.

So, again, missing out on big self-help money preaching things that should be obvious.