Post #182348 by Swanky on Sat, Aug 27, 2005 8:04 AM

It's been a while since I added to this thread, so, let me update.

At the beginning of the year, I was working a job that made it all very easy. I was ready to work for myself and make this tiki bar happen. In the last few months, I moved into a different position which has the potential to make me a relatively rich man as the top guy in a big company on it's way to being a huge corporation. However, that's all on fiath and a man's word. A man I trust, but still, at this point I am slaving away for not enough money.

The word we had was that things would change for me this summer. There is now a week of unofficial summer and nothing has happened. I am more tired of my job than ever and have turned my attention back to the bar.

One thing I have learned in these preparations is that you must be there on the job all the time. A full time job at the least. It's a big commitment.

It's a decision not made lightly. If the bar is to be my only source of income, and I have a partner who is to be repaid, etc, I have to plan a certain way and I have to make this work very well.

So, in the coming couple of weeks, my boss will either come through with his promises and I will see myself staying in this company a good bit longer, or he won't and I will finish my business plan and start shopping for an investor and a location.

I've gotten great support from all over. Ms Swanky's uncle just moved to town and he is an architect who says he'll help design what is needed gratis. I talked to Hoffa last weekend and he is ready to help out with more artwork for the menu, etc. A few of you have said you are ready to buy Mai Tais...

So, it's in limbo for now and I am moving back towards doing this thing, but it hangs in the balance.