Working on a timeline - 2025

Once New Year's hit, the amount of pressure weighs down on me. It doesn’t really help that it is also my birth month. Ever since I finished my degree and chose my profession i made a promise to myself. A promise that has kept me in check, persistent, and focused. I promised that by the age of 30, I should be able to sustain myself doing something that I love.

Definitely took a while to gather how I can invest on myself & credible experience from 2020-2024. Gone through whatever pay cut, just to start somewhere. From working minimum wage as a barista & a coffee farmer. Worked with the savings I had to join a Fermentation Camp & learn from Lucia Solis. Moved islands to pursue a specific role. And in this process, some places didn't work out. Left people who weighed me down. Finally settled in Hilo to start my business while randomly being offered a coffee roasting job. All these movements just to find the right people to learn from did cost time & money. It took me 9 months to catch up financially, create a system for both businesses and build a routine around it. No regrets made so far.

And this is why 2025 hits different.

All the reasons for the first half of my 20's will make sense on how to approach the second half. Through learning the perspective of everyone involved in the chain, how do I pursue a business with ethics that benefit everyone in the industry?

Through the years, my goals have been clearer. It became more specific. Scary but atleast I have direction.

From scraping whatever knowledge, and learning from whoever, to now, choosing who to surround myself with. Part of this path is proving that I don't have to compromise morals & standards just to take me where I aim to be.

I am not a perfect person. I still ask myself all the time if I'm fair, doing the right thing, and not stepping on anybody. I do hope & trust that everything will fall in place in the next years.