I wanted to work at 43 things because everyone seemed to having so much fun but what I didn’t realize was that I could find a job that I love in my current field. I love my day job now and will use it to transition into full self employment as an artist.
Vladimir the Polar Bear's Life List
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1. Finish my music cd in 2007
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2. create enough passive income to become financially free
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3. feel confidant wearing hotpants on stage and looking at the audience through my legs
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4. Pimp My Volvo
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5. become a successful musician,make millions and become a philanthropist
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6. be an inspiration to people who suffer from self hatred
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7. choreograph a dance piece about the human body
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8. create a Japanese fanbase and be able to speak to them in their native language
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9. Write Love letters in Italian while riding in a gondola with Uchibari
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10. Own a house in Corsica
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11. begin a skincare regimen this month
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12. stop caring about what other's think of me
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13. Become Financially Independent
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14. give Gene Wilder a hug
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15. make a dentist appointment
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16. own a loft in Manhattan
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17. Make an album that I love enough to promote it without shame
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18. Acquire 1 New Album a week every week
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19. learn music theory
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20. learn to use shuriken
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21. write more love letters
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22. create an incredibly effective and fun low cost marketing plan
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23. speak 7 or more languages fluently before I am 50
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24. leave a positive legacy for arts, children, and the planet that extends for 100 years or more
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25. begin setting clear goals for the Artist and Entrepreneur Intstitute
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26. produce How to Be a Bitch 101 (for Girls and Guys with Automatic Nice Syndrome) this month
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27. stop living in fear and begin making money by being who I really am
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28. find or create a systematic approach for fulfillment of my goals
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29. start an umbrella troupe that performs internationally
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30. create $30 Million + through my entrepreneurial pursuits
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31. buy my mother a house
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32. become a (casual) contortionist
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33. use trapeze work in my shows
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34. throw money into the audience
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35. have an incredible garden that maximizes the beauty of each season
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36. throw amazing parties again
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37. help others accomplish their dreams
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38. use the internet to communicate with millions of people around the world
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39. make art that retains its purity and depth while inspiring people from all walks of life
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40. have more fun every day
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41. become self-employed
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It would be cool if a compilation album was created with songs about 43things.com by various artists
When I first found 43 things.com I was thrilled to see that someone had created a place for the important things in life to become the focal point.
I had just quit a dissatisfying estate management position and decided that I would play my accordion in downtown Seattle to see if I could make a living just being myself and making people happy.
I learned so much about people and
myself but the streets were rough and unpredictable. I played the winter months but by spring it was much too hot for me.
Making the rent was a definite stretch and I realized that it was something I would be much happier doing very part time. At least until I can fly around on air conditioned jets and what not.
What was amazing about it, though, was that many of the pains in my heart were cured.
Much of what ailed me as an artist (mainly the business side of it- I had consumed far too many marketing books and spent countless hours in front of MTV) had disippated and my work was becoming pure again.
Ahh, but the rent, The rent. I needed to take care of basic survival and have enough capitol to make some more art, so I went back to my backburner stalemate dayjob for the dough because it made the most money. I try to make it interesting but the hours drag by and my brilliance defies it’s very structure.
MONEY is NOT ENOUGH!
I would love to work at 43things.com because I know I would never be bored and I would always a have a higher purpose for the work that I am doing. I thrive on
meaningful work and would sink my teeth into it- it would feed me and I it.
In my mind, it would be the ideal dayjob to support my growth as a human being and I would have a sense of fulfillment that the hours I spent every day were not hours I watched go by but that were truly worth my time because they serve to connect people and uplift humanity in a practial way.
Working at 43things.com would put in place a structure for me to
never forget how precious this life is
and to help others to remember that also.
