I'm ready to get excited.

I feel like I've stepped into another world. I've never taken a class, for which I've paid, to learn how to do my work or earn my living. I worked for my parents' businesses as a child. I left home without looking back after high school, and worked worked worked my butt off to make it. I didn't marry until I was almost 36, and even still, I continued to work for a paycheck. After moving back to Arizona, I found myself in a delightfully odd situation of not necessarily needing or wanting to go find a job. My last job in Virginia Beach left a bad taste in my mouth thanks to a boss who was literally losing her mind. Sad situation for her, but still stunk for me. I hope she's found help. Anyway, I'm bright. I'm capable. I'm sassy. I'm experienced. And I don't want to go back to making the good money for the not-so-good boss people. 

I'm a Mary Kay consultant. Nobody tells me when or where I need to work. It's direct sales; it's not my own product. I'm contracted, so I'm limited. It's good. I love the product. I love the company. I am anxious to do more, but whilst in school, my brain & body are limited.

I just can't help but wonder about myself. Am I cut from the same cloth as my dad? He worked for Ford Motor Company until retirement, but that was never our family's main source of income. He was a small business owner/operator, and that's what yielded the big bucks. My mom owned a restaurant. I worked in both businesses. After Dad sold his business of my childhood, he went on to develop another, and I hear it's been a success. For a lot of reasons, I don't want to be like my dad. I find myself somewhat resisting the notion that we're quite possibly alike in the way we direct our professional endeavors, or at least our professional endeavor desires.  

I just read four papers and watched six or seven videos for an assignment in my B183 'Introduction to Entrepreneurship' course. My goodness. None of it was very long, but it felt like it. I'm interested in learning more about the process people endeavor who truly start with nothing, or very little, and climb, fight, or make their way up to varying tops. Obviously there are commonalities, but seeing others' journeys is fascinating to me. In a short promo video for 'The Start-Up of You,' the idea that human history began with an entrepreneurial spirit. Humans took care of themselves. They fed themselves, farmed for themselves, went to market for themselves, sewed for themselves, etc. Societal laziness and shifting responsibility to government or others isn't in our DNA. After all, the Lord did say, "By the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread..." (Moses 4:25). 

I'm anxious to get moving in this class. I'm ready to be excited.