Life In Perpetual Beta

Jonathan Fields was pointed out to me at the very beginning of my filming career by blogger Clay Collins. Back then, I wasn’t even sure exactly what I was doing making this film, or what it would turn out to be. I had a friend helping me brainstorm that was working on a way for me to "monitize" Life In Perpetual Beta – make it a real cash cow, and that part although exciting, sucked the life out of me.

Trying to turn a passion into money was just no fun for me, maybe it was the friend (he did turn out to be a little more than criminally crazy) or maybe it was just the model we were trying to implement, but it totally turned me off to making this film into a business. This is probably why it took me so long to come around to interviewing Jonathan Fields, after all, he wrote a book entitled Career Renegade – How to Make A Great Living Doing What You Love.  I was having no part in that, no sir. It took me some time to finally come around to interviewing him, as jaded as I am, I’m glad I gave it a shot. Turns out, he’s a great guy, with a great personal story, and a great message to share.

Truthfully though, there are a lot of stories like Jonathan’s out there, a lot of people who have high paying jobs that quit them to go do something that traditionally makes far less money. It’s funny how our culture has brainwashed us into thinking that this is phenominal, that people who give up high paying high powered jobs are a little loco.  How is it that we’ve come so far from center that we don’t think it’s crazy when people don’t choose a career that fulfills them?

‘There is something more to life than just chasing the buck."

So here I am with a passion for interviewing and filmmaking, getting ready to form Life In Perpetual Beta into an LLC so that I can distribute it properly when the time is right, and at the same time editing the video for this blog post, when a conversation I had with a venture capitalist comes to mind, he says to me, "Melissa, it’s a great concept, but I don’t understand how it’s going to make money."  It turns out, I don’t either, but I am still making the film.  I’ve decided that there is no reason to force it, because if there is anything I have learned from making this film it’s this: The unfolding of an idea organically is so much more powerful than forcing it down a set path, at least, that’s what I’m banking on. There is something more to life than just chasing the buck.

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