Lessons in Entrepreneurship

Recently, there are many changes in my life. A new job. A new course. A new retail space to sell my jewellery. I experienced different emotions during this phase. Excited about my new discovery and learning. Angry over the different working culture. Fearful of the big and bigger risk that I have taken. Happy that I have made new friends.

I rediscovered myself from a meek and lifeless mouse to a aggressive tigeress. Perhaps entreprenuership has caused in the change in my character. I become more hardworking..went sourcing on weekends and working till 4am on saturdays to work on my jewellery pieces. I love the challenge to test my new idea and formulate a strategy to test whether it really works.

At work, I stood up for my viewpoint more strongly. I saw the "me" during the poly days where I was very aggressive in leading the project team. Unfortunately,the company culture is not approving such attitude.

I felt angry. I tried to look at a positive side, telling myself that I could slowly overcame this. But the biggest problem is the management hears but not listens. They rejected ideas without really listening to the main point or understanding the concept. The reason they gave was "Not nice!! Cannot!!" I am very frustrated because they don't understand what concept is, telling me to change the name of the development without changing the concept...huh....does that relate to the name of the development???? I told myself that I will not make this mistake if I become an entreprenuer in the future.

Another mistake I learnt was that they did not trust their employees...Can you imagine that I have to get my CEO to approve the directional signage that comes with a logo and arrow???...OMG...so unproductive!!! Designs are subjective and guess how many times the design has been changed. Think it is going to break the Guinness World of Records.

The worst thing that happen to me is that I am reporting to an Operations Manager who does not understand what Marketing is all about...who does not know what a DM stands and ask me to do whatever the boss likes. I got so furious that I asked him why and what he hired me for. I am not here to just take instructions. A maid can do that.

Enough of grumbles! I will tolerate for the sake of my dream till a suitable opportunity comes.....