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Michelle Dreher Highlight
Do you really want to spend years thinking about what you want to do? Or do you want to actually do something?
About Michelle
- Originally went to art school and studied illustration, but the department wasn't meeting her expectations, so she switched to printmaking.
- Interned at a letterpress shop during her senior year, then spent a few years after school really getting to know the industry.
- After years of sitting around and talking to her friends about what they wanted to do, she decided she should open her own shop.
- Says for a while, she was waiting for the "right moment," until she finally realized she needed to just jump in; opened her own press.
- Believes that if you think back to all the little things you've truly enjoyed doing and piece all of those "clues" together, you'll find your passion.
- Thinks that doing something is always better than waiting around, dreaming about what you could be doing, and actually doing nothing
- At times, her mom still tells her she should've been a doctor, despite the fact that she never had any interest in becoming a doctor.
- Says she lives paycheck to paycheck sometimes, but she'd gladly sacrifice "fancy toasters" to do what she wants, when she wants.