From person to person, the purpose and goal of learning flower arrangement is different. Some people want to be a professional floral artist, floral designer or floral shop owner. Namely they learn flower designs for business purpose. Some people learn floral arrangements for enjoying floral art strictly as a hobby. Namely the purpose of learning floral art is not for making money.
Besides above mentioned group of people we often find a kind of neutral group that does not belong to any of above groups. These people start learning floral designs as a hobby and enjoy the life with daily flower arrangement. However they are looking for a chance of doing floral business if the situation turns out OR allows in the future. In short, they do not want to engage in floral business right now. In the future if the financial situation allows they want to challenge running a floral shop. Or if they lose current job (in most cases they belong to a company as one of employees), they MAY engage in floral business by making the best use of their floral design skills. In a sense they are learning floral design as a kind of INSURANCE just in case.
Judging from our past experience it is very difficult for these type of people to be successful in making their dream come true because as far as their current job is secured and they do not lose a job, they can continue accepting their current situation. In order to challenge a start up business, they must be very ambitious and have to run a risk of fail in the business. In the worst case they lose lots of money from challenging a new business.
From the standpoint of floral school owner, we feel very comfortable if their purpose is just for enjoying floral arrangement as a hobby. If their goal is earning a reasonable skill with which they can enjoy floral arrangement in their daily life which helps them live a peaceful and artistic life. The reason why we feel comfortable with this is we think it is very difficult to make lots of money from doing floral business UNLESS he/she is a hard worker making tremendous efforts and have a very good sense of business which greatly helps them to be quite successful in running a floral business.
The bottom line is that as far as they look for a peaceful life and enjoy artistic life surrounded by beautiful floral arrangements at home, most people will be successful in achieving their goal. Making lots of money from floral business is difficult UNLESS they make tremendous efforts. This theory applies not only for floral business but also for any kind of business which entrepreneur newly starts.
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