it's not that bad but you do need the patience of job to start your own retail business.
i received a job offer this week and i'll tell you, i was quite tempted. ok, the salary was rubbish but rubbish is better than nothing. however, a salary is now, to us, worse than the continual struggle of making every decision ourselves. just... ;-)
i'd post more often but there's not that much to say. we work hard from week to week, we share childcare, willy nilly, we try to tidy our house as much as we can when we're mentally and physically exhausted. life goes on...
i do begin to wonder quite what madness had overtaken me when i handed in my resignation (but, oh, was that a sweet, sweet moment), however, those moments pass and we get on with it. that doesn't mean the temptation of a comfortable salary doesn't tempt me but that would mean the end of what we're doing. simple as...
it reminds me of Camus (harking back to those halcyon days of simple education) and his existential philosophy. your life is generally humdrum, boring, everyday but it is defined by the highs and lows which break the humdrum - essentially. that's fairly simplistic but the highs and lows of what we do seem more colourful, more accentuated, more potent. and it's those highs and lows which i love.
watching lord sugar's "the apprentice" this season has touched a nerve for anne and i. put simply, an entrepreneur doesn't define themsleves as such; they are or they aren't. seeing that i'm on my 3rd go at this, i think i'm just addicted to it and as such, "i am". what i've seen from anne in the last 8 months, she is too.
you have to be prepared to be beaten, bullied, roughed up, have your dreams shattered (again and again) and still come out fighting. local people have told us that they'd heard we're shutting down!! you need elephant hide to do this. but we're now so far in and we're getting more and more support, it would be crazy to chuck it in.
and that's what this post is all about. we're up against it and we get in there each day with the one single, simple view: keep attacking. we know what we're doing and we know that more and more people love it every day. we're keeping the faith and more than that, we are the brand. funky rascal - because childhood's too short for pastel shades!
bring some colour into your life :-)
