Please pray for the job!

Ryan is possibly going to get a job working for Riser Media. He knows the president from young men's of all things! He went in to talk business with him the other day and he pretty much offered him a job. He has to meet with a few people in the company next week but I'm feeling hopeful. I really want this to work out...

For reasons I will never understand, Ryan spends his entire life in pursuit of that next great thing that will make him a million dollar company owner. There is ache inside him at all time that prevents him from working for others. he spent his entire life watching is dad pursue different business ventures and swore he would never be like him. "Money's coming soon I promise... this will be big, really!" And yet somehow the entrepreneurial spirit is apparently genetically inescapable. He currently does run his own freelance media business and it goes something like this...

Ryan finds people who need work done that he can provide and they chat about what the person wants and how much they want to pay. Generally he way underestimates the time it will take him and therefore way under estimates the price he quotes them. He spends a million and 14 hours on a project that was only going to bring in a small amount of money. He bends over backwards to get people exactly what they want when they want it and then they take their sweet time when it comes to paying him the tiny sum of money agreed to when he started working. He hasn't really slept in 2 days and all for a project that is probably gonna work out to be like $0.50/hr by my calculations. Not to mention he also works on a project all the time that isn't going to pay him any money until it makes money...IF it makes money. He doesn't even have it in writing that they will ever pay him even if it makes a ton of money.

Basically I don't care if he hates the man, I say bring on the 9-5 with a dependable salary. Why should he be the salesman, laborer, collections, quality control, etc all on his own? Not to mention a full time student.

I must end with the disclaimer that I do appreciate his willingness to work so hard to keep our bills paid and food on our table. Also I should clarify that while Ryan does share that entrepreneurial spirit with his father he is by no means the same as his father. If it came down to it I think Ryan would put his dreams aside and bag groceries if that's what it took.