Well I had a second interview with Famous Dave's BBQ yesterday.  I won't start as a server but I will start as a host and learn about the place and then become a server a little later.  I am very frustrated right now because any job I take will interfere with plans for the jewelry boxes idea.  Which is neccesary to do first because it has so little start up cost and will be extremely profitable.  The money from that can open the doors to the other ideas.  Trying to figure out with Susan how much money needs to come in in order to pay off credit cards by December 31.  I believe it is very possible to accomplish.  We also want to wait to open the bigger ideas till after that is done.  That way I can focus on the businesses and not worry about debts. 

I don't mind working 3 jobs in order to accomplish these things.  I don't want to do it because I will barely see my wife for six months then and that is unacceptable.  So maybe I can work at Famous Dave's at night and deliver a paper route in the morning and run an ebay business from home.  That way I won't have to work out of the house more than 50-55 hours a week while the ebay thing runs itself.

So here is the idea for the boxes in the meantime. 

1. I draw out all the designs I can do and put them in a portfolio of sorts.
2. I make 4 to 10 boxes of different sizes and shapes.
3. I find and pay someone a little bit of money or mexican food to sit at craft shows and take orders/sell the already made boxes.
4. I make the boxes as they are ordered.
5. After I profit $3,000 I eliminate the paper route if it is active.
6. After I profit an additional $3,000 I should have a business plan together to show people at an meeting to ask them to invest in my idea(s).
7. Open doors to hopefully coffeeshop/bookstore and quit all jobs except ebay, still do boxes and start to produce the very lucrative salsa line of products.

Gordon Gekko: The point is ladies and gentlemen that greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of it's forms - greed for life, for money, knowledge - has marked the upward surge of mankind and greed - you mark my words - will not only save Teldar Paper but that other malfunctioning corporation called the USA. Thank you.

Morpheus: Neo, sooner or later you're going to realize just as I did that there's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.

Oh and I need to find time to teach too.

Connor: Now you will receive us. Murphy: We do not ask for your poor, or your hungry. Connor: We do not want your tired and sick. Murphy: It is your corrupt we claim. Connor: It is your evil that will be sought by us. Murphy: With every breath, we shall hunt them down. Connor: Each day we will spill their blood, 'til it rains down from the skies. Murphy: Do not kill. Do not rape. Do not steal. These are principles which every man of every faith can embrace. Connor: These are not polite suggestions, these are codes of behavior, and those of you that ignore them will pay the dearest cost. Murphy: There are varying degrees of evil. We urge you lesser forms of filth, not to push the bounds and cross over, in to true corruption, into our domain. Connor: For if you do, one day you will look behind you and you will see we three, and on that day you will reap it. Murphy: And we will send you to whatever god you wish.

Connor, Murphy: And shepherds we shall be, for thee my Lord for thee, Power hath descended forth from thy hand, that our feet may swiftly carry out thy command, we shall flow a river forth to thee, and teeming with souls shall it ever be. In nomine patris, et filii... [they cock their guns] Connor, Murphy: ...et spiritus sancti.

Just a thought.