Skreddy
07-22-2007, 11:39 PM
Builders: how has doing what you love doing for a living, working yourself to serve your customers and dealers, changed your ideas about society, economics, and politics?
Users: how has dealing with small builders changed your ideas about dealing with (or not) corporations, as opposed to small businesses who are responsive to your needs?
Myself? I've become, in the last few years, much more of a "civil libertarian" in my political leanings. I'm sure my mode of business has less to do with this than my disillusionment with a certain political party I had formerly placed a lot of faith in. But I do believe that learning that I can truly live my own dream and not be dependent upon an employer has had a lot to do with my changing views as well. I find it fascinating that economics has so much to do with every other part of life, personally, emotionally, spiritually, and politically. I love that I'm small enough to be able to actually deal with people on a personal level and bring to them what they truly want, develop new products, and receive direct feedback. It's such a different paradigm than just putting in 8 hours a day at a boring job, it's changed my whole way of thinking and opened me up to so many new posibilities. I've learned that if I don't like the way something is, I have the power to change it myself.
Users: how has dealing with small builders changed your ideas about dealing with (or not) corporations, as opposed to small businesses who are responsive to your needs?
Myself? I've become, in the last few years, much more of a "civil libertarian" in my political leanings. I'm sure my mode of business has less to do with this than my disillusionment with a certain political party I had formerly placed a lot of faith in. But I do believe that learning that I can truly live my own dream and not be dependent upon an employer has had a lot to do with my changing views as well. I find it fascinating that economics has so much to do with every other part of life, personally, emotionally, spiritually, and politically. I love that I'm small enough to be able to actually deal with people on a personal level and bring to them what they truly want, develop new products, and receive direct feedback. It's such a different paradigm than just putting in 8 hours a day at a boring job, it's changed my whole way of thinking and opened me up to so many new posibilities. I've learned that if I don't like the way something is, I have the power to change it myself.