The Worst Thing Anyone Can Say to a (Home) Business Owner...
Last year when I hired my 16-year old assistant for administrative work, she was impressed by my home office, and the products I sell.
For the next few weeks, she would come to my home and do the work, filing, data entry, labeling and packaging, and other misc. tasks to help me with my business.
After about a month, I gave her the first paycheck, printed out from QuickBooks, very officially looking, in a windowed envelope.
She looked at me and said, "Wow! Milana, it's like you have a REAL business!"
My heart sank...
Just a little thing said by a 16-year old girl, who has never been in business of any kind, just working at her first job...But for some reason, my stomach felt like I was about to enter a dental office.
Did she "hit" my weak spot? Was I already questionning whether I had a *real* business, since I was working from home, wearing my pajamas, my office window overseeing my backyard, and my neighbors probably thought I was just slacking off all day (while my husband was at work)?
Probably a little bit of both...
A funny year-old anecdote just came to mind tonight :-)
For the next few weeks, she would come to my home and do the work, filing, data entry, labeling and packaging, and other misc. tasks to help me with my business.
After about a month, I gave her the first paycheck, printed out from QuickBooks, very officially looking, in a windowed envelope.
She looked at me and said, "Wow! Milana, it's like you have a REAL business!"
My heart sank...
Just a little thing said by a 16-year old girl, who has never been in business of any kind, just working at her first job...But for some reason, my stomach felt like I was about to enter a dental office.
Did she "hit" my weak spot? Was I already questionning whether I had a *real* business, since I was working from home, wearing my pajamas, my office window overseeing my backyard, and my neighbors probably thought I was just slacking off all day (while my husband was at work)?
Probably a little bit of both...
A funny year-old anecdote just came to mind tonight :-)
View from my office window - LOVE it!
2 Comments:
I wanted to read the year-old anecdote and I cannot find it :(
(Please forgive me if it is really right in front of me...)
Linda - sorry, I meant that what my 16-year old assistant told me a year ago WAS the year-old anecdote! LOL! ;-)
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