Finding your Muse

[AdamTeece]

Tim's book recommends that you should find a Muse that will fit a Niche that you are involved with. Unfortunately my Niche is about to change as I transfer from Military life into civilian life. Should I wait until I have made the transition and figure out what my niche will be there or try to figure out what I might be involved with and sue my current interests and go from there? The only things that keep coming to mind for me is software, and I think that might be a rather difficult Muse to begin with because of support and development. Thanks in advance for any help you offer.

[kindwomanxx]

perhaps an immediate niche might be to document your transition?
What are you doing to make the transition easier? Are there
ways of getting around paperwork or making it easier?
Is there a checklist of all the steps available? There are
people getting out of the service every day. Maybe you could
capitalize on that?

BTW, thank you for your service to your country! I hope that
you succeed with your muse!

Joann

[AdamTeece]

Thanks for the great ideas, I will have to start researching that. There are all kinds of resources out there that are supposed to make the transition easier, but maybe I can make a better one combining ideas from all of them.

[Drewkerr]

To start THANK YOU for your service.

Think of while you were servering for ideas about a product. What were your daily tasks, what was something that was really annoying or difficult. Do you have any problems with gear or equipement that maybe wasn't the most user friendly. Maybe try to think of a product that could be used to make military life easier, or deployement easier, or some gear or equipement, then you have something to sell.

[AdamTeece]

Everyone keeps thanking me for my service but I must admit it hasn't been too big of a deal. The Navy I think is most likely one of the safest branches. I get into a fight by firing missiles hundreds of miles away from the actual action. I do appreciate all the support, but this is most likely one of the simplest jobs I will ever have despite being in a highly technical rating. You really don't have to think for yourself too much in the military, the hardest part is putting up with tedium of everything and being almost disconnected from everything when you leave for a 6-month deployment to the middle of the ocean. We have Movies, Video Games and Books to keep us entertained during down time so it isn't too bad because I can catch up on reading and beat a bunch of video games.

As far as my first muse goes, I think I will create one that is designed to help people transfer out of the military, but I am going to go a little more specific and it will have a lot of information in there for helping them to start their own business and create muses. Then after that one is up and running I will create one that helps people who are still in or staying in the military to create muses in order to help them earn more money automatically while deployed and be able to take advantage of any opportunities they want when they visit some place such as Dubai and want to stay at the 7 star hotel there.

[Talon]

You idea or muse is good. To help I could provide an internal placement of resume within Lockheed Martin if you want.

[BrianDale]

Why not make the transition a basis for a web site...develop a blog / support group...have people sign up (for $$$) and find their old mates...and build a list to promote specialized products??? I know of lots of X-military who would benefit from this service...

The idea is free...the working out is where the profit is...