Decisions decisions

Well, school is finished. I am now a certified watchmaker. The sad part is I don't want to work on watches, I want to work on clocks. Sure I feel confident enough in the two months of the crash course in clocks (that the school was nice enough to give me to work on clocks), I can't help but really wish I had the clock certification instead. Now I really don't need the certification to work on clocks but I just would like to have that certificate hanging on my wall. It's challenging to try to explain to people my schooling. "well I'm certified in watches but I fix clocks". In my mind it makes me feel like I quite early and didn't complete my clock certification, when in reality the school was closing permanently. And yet with a legitimate excuse and the unnecessary need for the certificate, I can't help it feel a sense of failure with not having it. I've been trying to pinpoint how I've felt about this whole thing and I think that's what that feeling is- failure. I guess I'm thinking too from my customer's standpoint, my showing them a certificate could give them a sense of comfort when trusting me with their clock, which in many cases is a family heirloom. Now people who know me and know my passion for history and taking care of things I should have no problem with. Let's just hope word of mouth goes before me and my reputation precedes me. In addition to completed school I'm faced with decisions of what to do next. I'm just so looking forward to opening a little shop and dong my clock and Christmas thing, but at the moment I have no clue howd I'd make my rent, much less keep money back to buy more inventory or invest back into the business. I'm antsy to open a brick and mortar store. I just love working with people, especially my people, the Hanover people. But I need to face the facts and not put the cart before the horse. I need to work with what I have save up. The Downtown Hanover Visionary meeting tonight is not helping this itch one bit. Talk about downtown and setting goals of where we want it to be in the next 10 years just makes me drool. Every time I walk or drive through downtown I just see what it can be--will be. And I totally want to be apart of it. They're wanting to attract specialty-niched, and unique shops and restaurants to downtown. What better than a Christmas and Clock Emporium? They just kept on talking and I had the urge to jump up and down and say me! Me! Me! So many wheels are turning in my head, it's hard to keep up.