Yes man, time spent with smallsteps is a sure investment into the future.
I have now spent 20 years in the charity fields and sacrifice including compromise has become second nature.
Now consider this example; you buy a car, but it has no motor. So in the meantime you spend a lot of time working on the body and the contents of the car while waiting for a motor to appear on the market. At last the motor appears, but you have to wait 3 months for delivery.
Suddenly another motor comes on the market and this one you can get immediately for 10 times of the price than the motor that you have to wait for.
What would you do?
Well I have selected the compromise to wait for the coding courseware for the children.
We have spent many hours getting the goods together for the coding courses. New laptops, Windows 10 Pro and Office 365 plus licenses. We searched for months to find a suitable educational Non Profit that works with poor children and at last we found one to partner with.
So now it is time to get the motor, the actual certified courseware and we can get it at a huge discount, as we work with poor children. But we have to wait for about 3 months into the new year. It would cost us about R250 per student.
We want to run a pilot first with 16 learners, as I like to start small.
Another player appeared and offered us real top quality courses but at a starting price of R29000 per term for the 16 students. Their best price discounted.
Yes, we are ready and eager to start, but not that eager to be taking on something that we cannot afford.
So it's compromise at play as we wait for the new year. Time wasted?
Yes indeed, but there is a time and a place for everyting, even if we feel rushed all of the time.
What will happen, simply will happen!
I think it is for everyone - it is just that the "acceptance" part isn't - they feel the pain.
I am a cheap bastard ;D
In some ways it is time wasted, but I am guessing that in those three months, you aren't going to be sitting around idle, so perhaps there will be some additional value you will find along the way that you might have missed had the course started today. At least, there is the potential for it to happen now.
The "potential for" is why I have always taken the position that any job is better than no job.
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Same here about the cheapness factor and I think it stems from a battling childhood :)
In some ways it is time wasted, but I am guessing that in those three months, you aren't going to be sitting around idle,
That's why I sai that there is a time and a place for everything. It is obviously planned for me to discover other contributing factors during the waiting period. And you are right, in our work one is never idle :)
So true about the job, as no job cannot even be considered.
My concern is that we have only one income stream and I have to develop others.