I understand what you're saying, but you also need to understand I am only one man, and can only do so much during a 24-hour period of time.Originally Posted by MISTER
I am building an investigative business of my own, while I work for someone else's business. This takes time + effort above and beyond my normal work days.
I have also built a nature photographer's database, even more involved and more complicated than this one ... which has every bird, every plant, every animal in the entire biological tree of life hooked into it.
Therefore, "something" has to be removed from my plate in order for me to be able do each one properly.
If I were a 100% dogman, like I was 10 years ago, with NOTHING BUT these dogs in my life ... then I would be spending every moment of my life on here ... and it would still be a huge task
But right now, building my own business is a huge task.
I could literally spend 100% of my time on my own business, and by itself it is a huge job (studying for designations, passing licensing examinations, etc., marketing to companies), over and above my day job working for someone else's business.
And then there is my photographer's database.
I am right now creating a colossal article for my photography database, that I have been working on for the last 10 days (and that I worked on basically all day yesterday, except for the time I took to put this place up for sale.)
I am not getting rid of my job, it brings me too much money, so it comes down to this: do I get rid of the photographer's database or the bulldog database?
I therefore have to take a good, hard look at THE LIFESTYLE and MY CLIENTELE.
Nature photography is POSITIVE, BEAUTIFUL, LIFE-AFFIRMING.
The people involved in it tend to be POSITIVE, EDUCATED, KIND, etc.
These dogs are anything but "life-affirming," and I won't bother getting into the type of folks the dogs tend to attract.
Honestly, to me there isn't much "positive" about the sport of dogs anymore ... and 90% of the people in it, I wouldn't invite to dinner.
Even when I become a fan of a great dog, like Gr Ch Titere, there is always some kind of low-class, down-and-dirty bullshit associated with a great animal.
You are right, I am a DOG man.
I do love and appreciate these dogs.
And I have dedicated more time, hours, and work and more effort to create cool resources for the benefit of dogs and dogmen than most people could possibly fathom. (Most dogmen can't create a line of text without making a mistake.)
But I am going to direct my energies toward something MORE POSITIVE ...
As plainly and simply as I can put it, I have better things to do with my time.
This resource here is an awesome tool. I still can't believe that my brother and I put it together.
But the Nature Photography Database we put together is even more awesome, more complicated, more feature-rich. We actually harvested the entire biological kingdoms of life from the US Government sciences, compiled by peer-reviewed scientists from around the world, and we have hooked this massive repository of every living thing on earth into our database. If a man in Bangkok, Thailand photographs a snake there, it will be in our database. If someone in Australia finds a scorpion, it will be in our database. Etc., etc.
I simply do not have the time to put into 3 different projects (my own business, this website, and my photography database) and do them all justice. So one of them has to go.
The lion's share of my time I have dedicate to my business, and I have time for ONE extreme hobby to delve into deeply, not two.
So, despite how much I have put into this website (my books, etc.), this is the one that has to go.
IMO, someone who is 100% dedicated to these dogs needs to run this thing, and I am only 2% dedicated to dogs these days, if that.
Me 10 years ago could run this thing ... when I lived and breathed nothing but these dogs.
Me now cannot do it justice.
It's pretty much that simple amigo.
Jack
