The Idea behind Idea-Mill.net

What I do for a living now isn't what I expect to do for a living forever. But changing careers isn't easy, even when I figure out what it is I actually want to do.

What is easy is coming up with ideas. I don't know if I'm good at it, but I know I enjoy it. And I believe that any career should have two requirements:

1) You're good at it
2) You enjoy it

So far, I've been choosing careers based on what I'm good at. Great for making money, making your mark, gaining some confidence. But lousy for personal fulfillment unless it's also something I enjoy. And since - whatever my job - I end up working a lot, I'd like to find something I really enjoy doing. So I'm going to start instead with doing what I enjoy, and seeing if I'm good at it. Implicit in there is the perhaps unrealistic assumption that someone will pay me for it, but I think if you look hard enough you can find a way to make money doing almost anything.

So maybe someone will jump on one of these ideas and want to build it out.

Or there's a prospective employer out there who will pay me to think up new stuff - maybe a think tank or VC or incubator or restless multi-millionaire.

There's also the (remote) possibility that this little site is the idea itself, and evolves into some sort of idea exchange that not only generates ideas, but also generates some income.

Thanks for stopping by. Hope you find an idea you like, or have an idea you'd like to share.