When Working Woman magazine asked women business owners why they became entrepreneurs, the number one reason was freedom and flexibility, not money. For many, true success equals happiness. Looking within will inevitably bring Bill and his dream to a fork in the road. Otherwise, he really needs to continue his quest for information. Look to Others Perhaps the best information about any line of work comes from those who are already doing it.
Most people are more than willing to talk about their jobs.
Walter Kulas, of BMT Lock and Key in Massachusetts, certainly was. I selected Walter's business at random from my local yellow pages. Despite catching him in the middle of a job, Walter said that he and the other locksmiths would be only too happy to talk to someone who wanted to know more about the work they do. But if, after talking to all the locksmiths he can find, there are still holes in Bill's information bucket, he still has a vast resource to tap. Bill complains of being constantly caught between a clock and a hard place.