The Epiphany

Sometimes we come up with these crazy ideas. Ideas that, if looked at closer, just might work. Others are so far fetched that we slap ourselves back into reality and move on with life. Well, I had such an idea.

I, like so many other people in this world was fed up with my job. I was surrounded by incompatant laziness that made me scream into the night "How can these people get away with it?" I'm a hard worker (blaming parents here for instilling such great work ethics in me) and it was driving me nuts that these coworkers who would disappear for 2 hour lunches or not even show up for work were getting the same treatment as me. A pat on the head. And yes folks, I mean that literally. My boss would give me a pat on the head, or back, and tell me how great I was doing. I was constantly fixing their mistakes and always doing things they never got around to doing. In the four years I have been at this job I did not see one merit based pay raise. No one did. Oh, we all got our standard cost of living increase. But how does that make me any different from them? It didn't.

Finally, one day as I was sitting in my corner cubicle, I had the epiphany. I should start my own business. I was tired of working for the man. I was tired of being underpaid and underappreciated. I was tired of picking up the slack of those around me. I was tired of being blamed for things I didn't do. And I was just tired of doing all of this stuff and getting nowhere. I knew that the only way to get somewhere was to do it myself. Climb out from under that glass ceiling, grab a sledge hammer and smash it.

It didn't take me long to realize what kind of business I wanted. I knew I could not do a stay at home type thing. Otherwise I'd spend all day in my jammies, sleep late and eat oreo cookies all day. No, I needed to go somewhere. I needed a reason to really get out of bed. I knew I wanted a retail shop. What would I sell?

Any one who knows me will tell you I have been a tree hugger my entire life. My education and career has revolved around it. I live a simple life. Honestly, I don't even own a stereo. I don't have TIVO and $4 Starbucks lattes are an occasional treat rather then a daily necessity. So I knew almost immediatly I wanted to sell natural products. The stuff made of Mother Earth. This was my idea.

I have yet to slap myself back into reality.