Enrolling in B250 - Web Business

Before getting into the meat and potatoes of the course, I just wanted to remind myself how, when, why, I signed up for it in the first place.

A few weeks ago, I talked with Jeremy over the phone and he mentioned he was getting an endorsement to go back to school. I thought this was pretty ridiculous but after discussing his plans to take some more finance classes and work towards that degree, I was interested but then forgot about it.

New Years rolled around and I stuck with the same goal to swim a mile that I have had written on my wall for a few years. Actually, I didn’t even commit to that one. I was feeling pretty lame. Our recent trip to Oregon had me wanting to travel more, or just pick up and move to Oregon for a change. Then I started to think about my goals when I left college, I wanted to start an online business and create an income that would allow my to travel, ie, not be tied down to one particular desk. So I set a goal. One goal. Start an online business. Not necessarily a successful one. Not the one and only. But one to get my juices flowing and to be an educational endeavor where I could learn the nuts and bolts of it. I committed to myself that if I didn’t have a site up with products ready to sell in two weeks, I was just going to move to Oregon anyways, find a job there and start over.

After researching drop shippers and realizing I needed some help to guide through the mess, I started looking for some courses online that might help. Then the conversation I had with Jeremy popped back into my head. I immediately jumped online, and found the course. Mind you, this idea popped into my head at some point in the afternoon (20140107 Tuesday). By that night, I had reapplied for school, got my endorsement interview with Bishop and also my interview with President Anderson from the Stake Presidency. It helped that I was at the church with Bishop for his other interviews that night and one of them happened to not show up. It also helps that President Anderson lives next door.

All in all, I’m confident that I am supposed to be in this class at this time. Well, maybe not at this time. I think I probably was supposed to take it a few years ago, maybe 5? But I guess the Lord just waited for me to pay attention and finally go for it.