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