Comments on: Are You a Delusional Work at Home Mum?

By: Melinda

Melinda — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:53:52 +0000

@ Rana, patience? What is this ‘patience’ of which you speak? LOL! I don’t know anyone that I can think of whose business now looks as they thought it would. Businesses seem to take on a life of their own, and it’s up to us to keep it running in it’s own direction.

@ Grace,

We need to be strong enough to trust our own instincts and resist influence that feels wrong

Very well said. I’m sorry to hear about your bad experience, and really happy to hear that you were able to get over it (and pay it off) doing what was right for you.

By: Rana Burr

Rana Burr — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 22:08:21 +0000

Absolutely would I do it again. Even though my business looks nothing like it did when I started, it has been incredibly fulfilling. It took me a few years to be in profit. You have to be patient as you grow. That was the hard part for me.

By: Grace Becker

Grace Becker — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 12:23:00 +0000

Hi Melinda, I think we all have high hopes as we begin the journey of entrepreneurship. Ten years ago
I started a catering company. We built a licensed commercial kitchen in our home and we were on our way. It has been fine, however along the way I let myself get distracted from my original intention of being a WAHM and while taking classes on business, I listened to advice from others about what my business should be and made a huge mistake and opened a coffee shop.

For me, that was a tremendous mistake. It put me in a huge amount of debt, defeated the purpose of working at home, and the only one that benefited was the bank that made the loan to me. Long story short, I took a beating, left as soon as the lease ended, and spent the next few years repaying the loan. I returned to my own kitchen, working at home, doing what I had intended to do all along.

The lesson, I let others interpret my dream, and persuade me to take a path I had never intended to take. All along, I had that nagging feeling in the pit of my stomach that it was a mistake but I ignored it. We need to be strong enough to trust our own instincts and resist influence that feels wrong.

A piece of advice I would like to offer, build your dream slowly as you can fund it, using other peoples money is not a good plan. If you can have the patience to do a slow build, all your profits will be yours, and you will be building a business that has a sound future.