in the beginning....
After years
of spinning my wheels in the city doing the post-graduation grind, working to
get by, I decided to go the route of countless aimless youth before me and teach
English as a second language abroad. As a naturally churlish and reserved
person, the idea of me being a facilitator of young children confounded not
only myself, but everyone who knew me. After two years of doing this to varying
degrees of success, I’m back home with a newly instilled sense of what I want
to do in life and what I definitely don’t want to do in life. I came to the
conclusion that I know I want nothing to do with children or teaching, in no
specific order.
So, here’s the deal, I came out the other side
of this teaching thing as a late-twenty-something (I shudder at self-identifying
as a ‘late-twenty-something’ but there’s no denying the truth) who needs to get
her shit together. I didn't want to dig myself so deep into the teaching/living/working abroad cycle that I felt I could never re-integrate back into society
at home again. So, I sat down and thought long and hard about my strengths,
interests and goals between the tedious interim of morning and afternoon talk
shows. Long story short, I am about to embark on the exciting and terrifying world
of opening my own business, specifically a clothing store, because you can’t
have too many of those, right? Obviously I know nothing about how to do this.
I’m pretty much starting from the ground up, but hey, what is life without
taking a few risks and jumping head first into something. I think I just heard
my father’s head exploding somewhere after I typed those words, but I digress…
I thought
one of the first things I should do is consider taking my online presence from
nothing to anything, hence writing this blog! In the past, and present to be
perfectly honest, I’d rather drink a bottle of ipecac than write a blog. My
reasoning for this being there are so many blogs chronicling the inanities of life
that it’s almost like I’m doing the world a favor. But lo and behold, here I am
sharing my business ineptitude, and hopefully through doing so I can spin it
into some kind of self-actualization exercise and gain some much needed
perspective.
So here we
go, the beginning of my journey from business conception to inception and all
of the good stuff in between.
xx
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