I spelled entrepreneurial right on my first try!

It's official - I'm moving to the hood next semester - the Glenhood.  My social life and dating life have fizzled down a lot in the last month or so, so I'm pretty excited about move.  It seems like a much more social place.  

But life's good right now.  I'm counting down my assignments I have left to complete before the end of the semester - I'm down to nine.  The biggest of those is a research paper for Management Communications.  I am studying the social networking site linkedin.com to determine if it is becoming a necessity for young business professionals.  So far the answer appears to be yes - when used correctly, it is a far more powerful employment site than anything else on the web, because it relies on your personal connections to find jobs.  So if you want to work at a firm, it will search and see if someone you know works there.  If none of your contacts do, it will search your contacts' contacts (the people the people you know know) , so that you can get a personal recommendation and introduction rather than just following the traditional method of sending in a resume blindly.  Companies are much more likely to hire someone with a connection like that.  I've actually been having fun researching this, even though it is a little time consuming.

Lately I've been feeling very entrepreneurial.  I'm bored with the current student job market.  Nearly every job simply requires you to do tasks that anyone else could do just as well.  I want to do something that stretches me - where my thoughts and ideas make a difference.  But it seems like the only independent work to do in Utah Valley is sales.  It's all about satellite dishes, pest control, home security, window cleaning, Living Scriptures DVD's, and the list goes on.  Why does everyone here insist on door to door?   If, while I'm a student, I have to do work that a robot could do just as well, then so be it.  I know there's immense value in keeping myself busy and making a contribution to society.  But, I insist on keeping my eyes open for other business opportunities.  

 So, I think I'm going to join the Web Startup Group at BYU, where people interested in internet entrepreneurship get together and make things happen.  I don't know the first thing about web development, but I'm sure I can contribute in other ways.  I would especially be interested in managing the finances of a startup.