Oh yes never in my wildest dreams did I think I could say that but that’s the feeling am experiencing right now. I am running the first kids furniture store in Nairobi and it allows me to interact with various people who I have never seen and may not see again. The interactions just warm my heart, someone has just peeped through the door and said "hi Sylvia, that lead you gave me to pursue a certain corporate for insurance has bore fruit, I have an appointment with them for next week, if it materializes we shall eat mandazis together". How fulfilling is that, am not after the mandanzis but just that am helping someone attain their goal or targets in their job just makes me know am in the right place.
You know my job calls for having a lot of faith as I have repeatedly said, today you open the shop and not even one client pops in, another day another month the lord sends clients your way and you go lie phew thank you Lord for remembering us, but what I love most about my job is that I can bring my daughter Samara here and she loves it, the bright colours, just fascinate her. I have managed to attain so much just being a business lady, it hasn’t been easy and am not even half way to where we want to be but slowly by slowly we will get there.
Being in business calls for faith, there are down times, talk about having employees, I get to respect my former employers. We used to celebrate when electricity would go off, now as an employer you are the first to call Kenya Power and demand to know how long the black out will be, salaries, you never had to worry, you knew end month you are set and do not want delays with your salary, now when you are wearing the shoes of an employer and the business has been slow, you intercede deeply for that deal to be sealed as mid month or end month is here and one wants their dues. Oh who would have thought an issue at KRA would affect a common mwananchi like me and yet the whole of this week the KRA online systems have been down and I cant get our cargo out of the port and we are just stuck..who would have thought..so yes am really appreciative for my former employers who helped mould me to what I am today.
Have I said how I have cried, worried about things..oh maybe I should say how we entered the beauty industry and were so excited about it and 6months down the line had to shut down.I have never felt like a failure as that time, yet I knew we were making the right decision. I had been shuffling up and down like a mad woman between the 2 businesses and I thought that because it is the hair industry why not leave” my trusted employee” to get on with it as I set up the furniture store..to my surprise my trusted and experienced employee had been stealing from me from snacks to lying about hair services provided to clients. God has a strange way of revealing things and one day we found that not only was he stealing from me but had turned the salon to his lodge as in he was sleeping there too, using my electricity, water etc..Furious was an understatement, I was there at the salon at 5.30a.m. yes he was hanging out with his girlfriend..oh well it was traumatizing and you see why I had to shut that down..however I have not failed, I just learned and will be brighter. I haven’t let go of that dream, its coming soon watch this space because the passion about children drives us and we gathered ourselves , closed the salon and said we will be back.
You know my job calls for having a lot of faith as I have repeatedly said, today you open the shop and not even one client pops in, another day another month the lord sends clients your way and you go lie phew thank you Lord for remembering us, but what I love most about my job is that I can bring my daughter Samara here and she loves it, the bright colours, just fascinate her. I have managed to attain so much just being a business lady, it hasn’t been easy and am not even half way to where we want to be but slowly by slowly we will get there.
Being in business calls for faith, there are down times, talk about having employees, I get to respect my former employers. We used to celebrate when electricity would go off, now as an employer you are the first to call Kenya Power and demand to know how long the black out will be, salaries, you never had to worry, you knew end month you are set and do not want delays with your salary, now when you are wearing the shoes of an employer and the business has been slow, you intercede deeply for that deal to be sealed as mid month or end month is here and one wants their dues. Oh who would have thought an issue at KRA would affect a common mwananchi like me and yet the whole of this week the KRA online systems have been down and I cant get our cargo out of the port and we are just stuck..who would have thought..so yes am really appreciative for my former employers who helped mould me to what I am today.
Have I said how I have cried, worried about things..oh maybe I should say how we entered the beauty industry and were so excited about it and 6months down the line had to shut down.I have never felt like a failure as that time, yet I knew we were making the right decision. I had been shuffling up and down like a mad woman between the 2 businesses and I thought that because it is the hair industry why not leave” my trusted employee” to get on with it as I set up the furniture store..to my surprise my trusted and experienced employee had been stealing from me from snacks to lying about hair services provided to clients. God has a strange way of revealing things and one day we found that not only was he stealing from me but had turned the salon to his lodge as in he was sleeping there too, using my electricity, water etc..Furious was an understatement, I was there at the salon at 5.30a.m. yes he was hanging out with his girlfriend..oh well it was traumatizing and you see why I had to shut that down..however I have not failed, I just learned and will be brighter. I haven’t let go of that dream, its coming soon watch this space because the passion about children drives us and we gathered ourselves , closed the salon and said we will be back.
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