Things I Learned #2: Business is a Blessing
For years I have been complaining about the amount of stress and work related to our line of business(es). It's really unbelievable, and often I wish we could quit and become employees instead. Even though we don't own our time, at least, we will have time. Our work requires us to be on our toes 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. We even dream about work! But then I see how much employees our age, from our schools, make. When we do the math, we simply can't afford to send our kids to school with what the current offerings are. It just doesn't add up, so we stay even if the work really kills us. You'd think that the work we do is something fun, but when it becomes a massive operation with 5-8 events a day, it's not fun anymore. When you have 40 employees and corporation paperwork and taxes, it's just... different. I crave the days when it would just be 3 or 4 of us doing the work, merrily attaching balloons to the ceiling. However, with what happened with Kat, ...