"What is with all the hawks?" I asked my friend Wyatt as we were sitting next to a pool. It was a Saturday afternoon. Life was a little too easy.
"What do you mean hawks?" he asked.
"I've been seeing them everywhere. That's the third one today. Look!" I said. pointing to the sky where a red tailed hawk drew a circle. At that moment Jamie, Wyatt's fiance, walked out to join us.
"Maybe that's you're totem! You know, like your spirit animal." She said. At first I though she was crazy. But you can't call women that.
"What do you mean?" I asked politely. Being careful not to get slapped for the 42nd time.
"Lets look it up!" she cheered. Excited to talk about some Native American magic. she whipped out her phone and began to type.
"Hawk" tap tap tap. "to. . . tem" tap tap. "Oh here's what this website says 'From a Biblical perspective, a hawk is a symbol of divine guidance and that you are being watched out for from above. Pay attention to your thoughts when you see one. That will guide you'." She paused. "What were you thinking before you saw it?"
"Same thing I've been thinking about all month. I feel like I should be doing something meaningful with my life. The 9 to 5 just isn't for me." We talked more about it and I went home a few hours later.
Later that week as I was driving to work with the regular bitcoin podcasts in rotation. Everyone was talking about El Salvador adopting Bitcoin. I kept thinking about how interesting that was. I still find it fascinating. There is so much untapped potential. It's the first country in the history of humanity to make a decentralized digital currency legal tender.
"Maybe I should move to El Salvador." I chuckled to myself. That very same moment, a Hawk swooped in front of my car window.

I'm not superstitious, but sometimes you gotta say fuck it.

I put in my 2 weeks, found a remote job, and bought a one way ticket.
This part of the story, I've talked about many times. I met the locals, surfed, asked lots of questions about bitcoin. Got bit by a brown recluse, got in a bar fight. Made some art. Ended up touring coffee plantations and started my own coffee brand. I didn't sell very much though. Looking back I focused way too much on the tech. I wanted to make the coolest software in the world. I was ignoring the most important lesson from the whole journey. For mass adoption to happen, there needs to be more work in the real world, not the digital one. But while I was being a dumb ass with the tech, 100 lb of the best coffee in the world began to go stale at my apartment. I lost my job that was funding everything and altogether stopped working on it.
Since then I've bounced around a lot. Its been hard finding a home anywhere as an employee. You can imagine all the struggles as a result.
The story about the hawk is true. I know I sound like a nut case, but when something like that happens to you, how do you go back to the regular 9 to 5?
I've never told anyone the moment I decided to go because it sounds insane. But I keep thinking about it and I want to know what the community thinks.

Am I ignoring the call to adventure by not selling any coffee?

I don't know. It's been a year and a half since I had to throw out my supply. Maybe it's been too long, maybe not. But I keep thinking about it.
So Let me know what you think. If I can get 100k sats on this post I'll get in touch with my supplier and set up shop again. Hyper focusing on real world sales, not trying to build the best software.
74 sats \ 1 reply \ @bief57 7 May
I couldn't bear to go back to a 9 to 5 job. Persevere in your coffee venture, it's a very good business and El Salvador is getting better economically. You're going to make it
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9 to 5 would kill me. Working 12 hour shifts feel like you actually get something done.
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110 sats \ 5 replies \ @siggy47 7 May
Two years ago, in the midst of covid, I was driving my small toyota truck on a major highway in a New York City suburb. There are many red tailed hawks in the area. While traveling at highway speed, a red tailed hawk flew past my windshield, inches from the glass, and right in my line of sight. It must have passed in a fraction of a second, but it felt longer. The detail of the bird's beak, eyes, body, feathers and tail was extraordinary. As the image vanished I wondered if I had really just seen that. It was surreal. It really shook me up in a strange way. I told my wife. She immediately said it must be a message. Later I talked to a friend, who is very tuned in to Native American culture. He insisted that I had seen my spirit animal. I just went on with life. Perhaps my spirit animal meant for me to zap the shit out of your post to get you back to selling coffee.
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Or maybe the hawk was prepping your mind to use Obsidian to consolidate your legal expertise n help BTC developers in need xP
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Ah. Perhaps. I have learned through experience to keep the bells and whistles of a new toy in the background and concentrate on the work, but obsidian makes that tough. It's so cool.
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What, yours is just a red tailed hawk? You got ripped off man. Shouldnt have it been the bald eagle? lol
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haha much appreciated friend
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That story is like Alfred Hitchcock
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Here you have my zap as a grain of sand so that you can contact your supplier again and get the coffee back in the cup!
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TheWildHustle is a terrible entrepreneur, but has a pretty stable remote job.
If your unsure about the coffee supporting your lifestyle, I’d recommend applying to 50 remote jobs, and doing the entrepreneur stuff on the side.
You might be able to find a high degree of flexibility and it would be cool to find a remote job that’s related to the coffee stuff.
And hopefully these sats help.
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Just so you know, if you get a maintenance job, they usually have free coffee!
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I’m a big believer in synchronicity . I think keep listening to your inner voice, intuition. It’ll get stronger and the way forward clearer.
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and you wont live with regret.
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Why should our collective SN voice influence your inner voice, though? You have to be the one to live out your narrative. What’s stopping you from taking the plunge? We’re not privy to your aspirations n challenges n cannot advise either way.
My two sats’ worth.
Good luck!
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Arigato Sensei.
I'm letting the bitcoin community decide if it's worth it.
Little more back story: I started dating this girl last year but this year she got this job staffing events. Her boss kept adding to her plate and eventually I never got to see her. There was one night she got to my place close to midnight and just passed out from being so tired, then woke up before sunrise to her boss calling her. She left for work that morning with tears in her eyes, without even a cup of coffee. When I saw that I decided to do something about it. So I ventured into the land of A.I. fought my way through all the hogwash and created a chatGPT bot that handles all of her event staffing through sms messaging. It's saved her 20 hours a week for the past month, and 3 days after she started it got 75% of her events fully staffed. Since it's been working so well for her I'm opening it up for other people and just onboarded my second customer today. (you can check it out at www.pepur.xyz)
I know Bitcoin needs some real world commodity sales to really push it forward, and there's really not much competition in a bitcoin only play, but it's a slow build and time consuming, and I have 2 customers at the moment.
So basically, I have many of the setup for the coffee business already done, just turning everything on costs a little cash (ironically around 100k sats). So if the SN community wills it I'll consider it worthwhile.
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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @Fabs 7 May
I don't quit get the connection to the coffee: how is that stopping you from adventure?
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The synchronicity of moving to El Salvador and my next door neighbor being both a tour guide and a wholesale coffee supplier has just made me feel like that's what I was called there to do, and I'm currently not doing it, thereby ignoring the call.
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Take the plunge. You wont know until you try.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Fabs 7 May
Hm, the mist is starting to clear up... Slowly...
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