Practicum Internship: Week Four  
   This week, I'd like to expand upon my last post. I wrote about my being impressed about the positive potential of the internet television medium, as a business model that I would like to emulate. The more I explore the possibilities, the more enamored I become of the idea! The opportunity to be my own boss, and indeed, the provider of employment for others, is a scenario that I find absolutely intoxicating.
   There is, in my opinion, an interesting backstory to my decision to intern at Star Planet. I had made a tentative decision to "serve" my time at Operation PUSH, based on the recommendation of one of my classmates. However, owing to a conversation I had with a friend who I have known since the third grade, and who's opinion I respect, I decided to add Star Planet to my short list, and the rest is, as the saying goes, history.
   Besides knowing my referrant for so many years, the two of us speculated (in the 1980's), about putting together a global communications network, built on a shortwave radio platform (my friend was/is an avid ham operator). Now the technology has caught up with our aspirations, making our dream an affordable venture. So when I called my friend to thank him for steering me in that direction, I shared my vision with him to set up my own station. To my surprise, this brother, who I collaborated with in my first business venture, was not only supportive of my interest in this undertaking, but had apparently sent me there with this result in mind!
   Our first business collaboration was a technology school, in preparation for which he sent me to Olive-Harvey College to learn how to program computers. That venture led to my teaching computer literacy and programming in the BASIC language in our business, as well as for the adult education department at OH, and, eventually, managing the PLATO (an acronym for Programmed Logic and Arithmetic, blah, blah) lab, which was a network system piped in from Champaign-Urbana.
This sly fox already has the necessary dollars to finance the building of our station and has even identified a site to house it! After graduating this year, I know what I will be doing to earn my daily bread, in addition to continuing my education at a four year institution. As Hannibal of A-Team fame was wont to say, "I love it when a plan comes together!"