This may come as a shocking revelation but… I don’t enjoy my job!
Wait…let me give you a minute to get over the shock.
It’s really not a good thing to say you don’t enjoy your job when so many people are struggling to find work, but I was talking to a friend the other day and he pointed out that, in the two years he’s known me, he’s never seen me so animated or passionate about a subject as I was during that conversation.
I’ll give you three guesses what we were talking about. Uh-huh… NOLA, and my love of everything therein.
Now… it might seem a small thing: So, your not that enthusiastic about your job – who is?!
But, I don’t want to settle.
I want to love my job.
I want to be the sort of person that goes to bed on Sunday night feeling like a child on Christmas Eve because I’m that excited to go to work the next day.
I don’t want to be the person that wakes up on Sunday depressed because it’s less that 24hours until they have to go back to work.
My solution? – I want to start my own business 🙂 (don’t we all?)
I don’t just want to bring a little bit of NOLA to my own life anymore, I want to introduce everyone else to that glorious city. As much as I can talk the hind leg off a donkey about living there, I want my friends and family (and hopefully a whole lot of other people) to experience the tastes, sounds & atmosphere of the Big Easy right on their cold, damp Welsh-slate doorstep.
So…
You lucky people are going to be getting weekly updates on the progress of my little start-up. (please, don’t run away!!!)
I’ll be trying out more recipes and thinking about designing a café/bar NOLA-style. EEEK!!! So excited!!
This is great incentive for me to stop just talking about it, and actually start doing something about it!
I’ve recruited a friend to help me with the market research side of things – roughly translated as regular lunch dates to scrutinise the eateries in our area and see what the competition will be. Safe to say, there’s not much in the way of Cajun-Creole around here, so I might be onto a winner. 🙂
Wish me luck x