Last night the STAART group was invited for a dinner at the University's dining establishment, The Deep end. Only I was the only one who came and stayed till the end. I usually like to be bang on time, but I was a few minutes late. Not that it mattered, mind you. Only one other student came and he only stayed for 10 minutes, tops.
I had a mac and cheese for dinner, while the group leader decided to have a burger with fries and a salad. I did quite a few small talk about my concerns. She is adamant that I don't start anything about making money until next year. I hate to think that, but I know that I would risk being overwhelmed by trying to get involved in trying to run a business. It doesn't help that I'm conflicted. I also told them about my project of getting my past home made videos into a DVD thing that I would like to upload onto Youtube.
She does say that after my first year I may contemplate taking another course instead of Environmental science. I wanted to finish my course because I wanted to have some leverage in making a way to help improve companies to help their environmental footprint, not just for Carbon Dioxide but their plastic pollution.
On the subject of the environment, I talked about Ecosia, the search engine that plants trees. They suggest that I write an article about Ecosia in the magazine for STAART. Sometimes these get downloaded a few hundred times. Maybe with a bit of a boost in attention, some students will download the app onto their smartphones and more traffic to Ecosia means more trees.
Today I was given the impression that I had to make a choice, watch a webinar about laws and how to help the UK and the EU, among other countries, with which to help boost the environmental policies in agriculture. A tall order, IMO. I think the Agriculture industry is corrupt and difficult to reform.
The other choice was to watch a webinar about how to run a successful business with a woman who worked at Greenwich university. She's managed to help empower women into making money through various means. Most of the entrepreneurs I met usually did affiliate marketing.
The honest truth was that it turned out I could do both, the former was prerecorded, so I decided to watch the business one. They're still offering that contest but I think I need to connect with someone with entrepreneurial before I start anything. That is, of course, if I can muster up the courage to do so. I have a couple of concepts in mind but I know that it means making some very tough decisions. Do I want to continue the course if I can't, or can I just work alongside an experienced entrepreneur as a business partner?
Afterwards I watched the environmental seminar and the man in question explains in great detail about the problems involving laws being passed, partly because of interpretation and cultural differences. But mostly because of anti-sediment from other parties, including, but not limited to those who are in the pocket of agriculture companies.
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