I left my job at the tea salon
I left my job at the tea salon yesterday. I was having a bad feeling about the position the day prior and it lingered into the next morning. I felt bad because I liked the owners and thought they were very nice people. I was unsettled when I learned about the tip pooling and not being paid for my performance. Finding out that virtually all of my coworkers were literal high school girls was a bit of a red flag. I also did not like working in such a feminine environment. There was a disconnect between myself, my coworkers, and the clientele and the need to be fake the whole time was something I cannot sustain. I am not sure if it is because of the uppity area it is in or the time of day I was working, but I am not built for that type of work environment.
I have decided to return to working in case management. I have two phone interviews set for next week. I am surprised at how quickly I was able to have the interviews scheduled. One is with the prison and the other is with a mental health and substance abuse treatment provider. I am aware that my resume is far more geared toward that type of work, but I figure there must also be a labor shortage in the field. I am hopeful about landing a position by the end of the month. I have a friend who works for the prison system that highly recommended the position.
I would still like to operate my own business, but after taking a hard look at myself, my skills, my interests, and my personality, I have decided to put the bookkeeping business on hold. I realized that I had gotten the idea from social media years ago. The content that I had been consuming was intended to have me purchase a course of some kind. While I do have skills and formal education in accounting, I really cannot see myself doing that work for a long-time. I began reflecting on other business ideas I had over the past few years, things like a pressure washing business or a candle business, and these are more in line with something I would enjoy doing. The barrier to the pressure washing business was the investment needed in equipment and storage. I would need to have a truck, hoses, chemicals, the pressure washer, storage, etc. With the candle making business, I didn’t have the space to make the wax or store the finished products.
All of this is to say that I am going to revise my plan. I am going to earn a steady income with a comfortable-to-me job. I can use the job to pay my living expenses and save enough money to start a proper business with. I will also have the time to seriously brainstorm ideas for a business I can see myself being interested in maintaining.