Back in 2001, I had written some software that was picked up by a new dot.COM and was recruited to move my young family 3000 miles from PA to CA to head their IT Department. The pay was good and the opportunity was too good to pass on. Many of us will recall how things happened when that bubble burst. Here I was 45 with a wife and 2 young kids 3000 miles away the only home I ever knew. At that time high-paying tech jobs for the 45+ crowd were hard to come by. I had a choice, to run back to PA or make a go of it alone as an independent. 22 years later and I am still independent. I am not rich however that was not my goal. Being self-sufficient and raising my family was my goal. I am still married to the same wife and raised 2 really great adult children. Best choice I ever made.
Long story. Went to NY Fashion Institute. Came home all sewing manufacturing business left and went south. Ended up in para military occupation, ie security guard, private investigations, Correctional officer. But my love is sewing, crafting etc. In corrections, I was in industries as Supervisor 2 training inmates how to sew and ran production. After years there, decided I had enough of the staff, took my little pension and started my own small business making prototypes. One day Yale University called about pennants. Got the large order. He referred me to another college, filled that order. Son told me to build a website. I did. Son told me how to market. I did. And here I am. Not making a million, but able to do what I love while making the same salary I was making in corrections... without all the stress of the correctional staff. LOL.
Husband inherited the business at the age of 22 when both his parents died…at that time the business had been operated in same family for 41 years(1940)…I met my husband when I became an employee in 1984… we are still operating the business together 39 years later. Transportation services aren’t the most stable business to be in depending on location…”luxuries” like sedan and limousine services are one of the first things people give up during hard times and the pandemic put quite a few companies under. We are still putting one foot in front of the other and fingers crossed the economy will turn around before we have another hit. 911 was bad…Covid was 10x the impact.
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Back in 2001, I had written some software that was picked up by a new dot.COM and was recruited to move my young family 3000 miles from PA to CA to head their IT Department. The pay was good and the opportunity was too good to pass on. Many of us will recall how things happened when that bubble burst. Here I was 45 with a wife and 2 young kids 3000 miles away the only home I ever knew. At that time high-paying tech jobs for the 45+ crowd were hard to come by. I had a choice, to run back to PA or make a go of it alone as an independent. 22 years later and I am still independent. I am not rich however that was not my goal. Being self-sufficient and raising my family was my goal. I am still married to the same wife and raised 2 really great adult children. Best choice I ever made.
Long story. Went to NY Fashion Institute. Came home all sewing manufacturing business left and went south. Ended up in para military occupation, ie security guard, private investigations, Correctional officer. But my love is sewing, crafting etc. In corrections, I was in industries as Supervisor 2 training inmates how to sew and ran production. After years there, decided I had enough of the staff, took my little pension and started my own small business making prototypes. One day Yale University called about pennants. Got the large order. He referred me to another college, filled that order. Son told me to build a website. I did. Son told me how to market. I did. And here I am. Not making a million, but able to do what I love while making the same salary I was making in corrections... without all the stress of the correctional staff. LOL.
Sick of the corporate BS, political correctness, divisiveness, backbiting and constant unattainable goal setting.
Husband inherited the business at the age of 22 when both his parents died…at that time the business had been operated in same family for 41 years(1940)…I met my husband when I became an employee in 1984… we are still operating the business together 39 years later. Transportation services aren’t the most stable business to be in depending on location…”luxuries” like sedan and limousine services are one of the first things people give up during hard times and the pandemic put quite a few companies under. We are still putting one foot in front of the other and fingers crossed the economy will turn around before we have another hit. 911 was bad…Covid was 10x the impact.