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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Captain_Commando" data-source="post: 4775028" data-attributes="member: 71848">1. First of all, job openings that require my skill set that are also in my borough don't pop up every single day. In addition, there are others competing for the same jobs. I'm also not looking to get a full-time position so my options are further limited. I had one bad interview because they were looking for someone to make a longer commitment than I was willing to. My resumé was also quite terrible until recently I started receiving help fixing it. There's a lot of dead time between applications and interviews. The business I'm starting is a side income in case things remain dry on the job front. There are plans to grow the business to make a lot more than $900 monthly.2. Entertainment is entertainment. My primary targets for marketing are people who can afford spending $21-25 per person on a night of entertainment. Geez, a corn beef sandwich can go for that much in a Manhattan eatery. The Broadway ticket price is just one example of many to illustrate how pricey things can get in the city yet people continue to spend on those things.3. On the gaming front, I'm building up my skills and reputation through the local gaming community. Anyone can go to the meetup.com site to see that I'm being active in practicing and improving my craft. On the storytelling front, I have been a volunteer children's Sunday School teacher/children's play director. That service will be ready next week. I'm still tweaking the site (it's only the first week the site has been up after all).4. Yeesh, I just started the site up. The full service menu won't be ready until next week. Ask me again the week after that.5. Exactly how much personal information do you expect me to share here? 6. Have you SEEN the differences between this plan and the one before it? I've taken A LOT of the arguments (the ones that were valid anyway) into consideration as I've developed this current venture.7. The reasons for the costs are not as important as the fact that people in NYC pay them anyway plus even more like snacks, t-shirts, etc. I don't know about where YOU live but life in THIS CITY can be a lot more expensive than other places.8. The team-building benefits of playing a team-oriented game where you have to work together to overcome obstacles and solve problems together are kind of obvious. I'll be posting some more on the business site to elaborate further (again I emphasize that this is only the first week that  the site has been up). A lot of team-building exercises don't tend to be very complicated in their structure (word games, board games, building a car together, etc.). Build trust. Build cooperation. Build communication. It's pretty straightforward.</blockquote>

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