The Bizz [so much better with double z's]

When I started College in 2009

I knew I wanted to be an interior designer.

I had spent just about every previous summer

re-decorating my already perfectly decorated room.

Actually that's a lie.

I look back and while I had good intentions

most of my room redo's ended up looking terrible.

I see it now, I didn't see it then.

(purple stripes, writing quotes on the walls)

Oy!

So after sitting through a lecture about interior design

I remembered suddenly that I HATE math and measurements.

So that career lasted oh about 15 minutes.

My freshman year in College I decided I had a love for photography.

So I was like, oh hey lets take a class on Photography.

Cool class, but totally a wasted credit.

Because I was not meant to be a photographer.

I can take a nice picture, but I was not

fond of learning about aperture and lenses

and cameras and ways to print and blah blah blah.

That same semester I also took an advertising class.

It was interesting, I liked it but I didn't want to be a professional advertiser.

No way, Jose!!

Also I'm an ENFP...if you know what that is then this post

totalllyyy makes sense to you ;)

Then a few weeks into school this thing called

the cupcake craze really took off.

And I was so into it!

That was the moment that I knew I wanted to own my own bakery.

Owning my own bakery seemed like a grand idea.

Except that I just wasn't that keen on cooking.

Cooking or baking.

I wanted the business.

I wanted the cute store front

with pretty distressed wooden tables

and different chairs accompanying those tables.

I wanted the smell of cupcakes and BREAD

to waft through the streets and lead everyone to my bakery.

I wanted a business, not a bakery.

I wanted to hire people to bake, and I wanted

to do the rest, like make it beautiful and make people love it.

I obviously didn't know much about owning a business back then.

Hey Emily, there's this thing called accounting and finance.

It's not all pretty store fronts and yummy smells.

Remember how I loathed math in Interior Design.

Well there is WAY more math to be found in Business.

A scary amount of math, enough to bring tears.

But I was SO set on having a bakery that

I signed on the dotted line and sold my soul

to this place called COBA!

College of Business Administration.

It was, to this day, the best school decision I ever made.

I have a business brain and heart.

I am so glad I majored in Business Management

because it gave me so much amazing information

on working in the business world and or owning my own business.

I've always had an entrepreneurial spirit.

If I could get paid to just sit around and create

business ideas all day then I'd be so rich!!

And it would be awesome!

I am so inspired by some of the amazing ideas

that I'm seeing on a daily basis of people

who have come up with a niche and

acted on it and turned it into a thriving company.

I know starting a business is hard work but once

you get everything lined up and ready to go

it is just so exciting to see how people

take in your ideas.

Here's a mid post pep talk for anyone

who wants to start a biz!!

Now, let us continue...

I'm working on something right now.

Something I've been working on for a few months.

I most definitely do NOT have it all pulled together

and probably won't for some time but it is so exciting

because I personally think it's a really fun idea

and no one that I know of is doing it to the

level that I'm wanting to do it.

It's probably one of my better ideas.

I just need to get it pulled together.

Tom has been helping me with it

and he's really amazing and supportive

and even better he's totally good at playing

devil's advocate which I really need

to make sure that every decision we make

about this bizzz is well thought out. 

You know those people who try out for singing

competitions and are terrible but no one told them they

were absolutely awful singers??

I'm not going on a singing competition or anything

but it's the same thing, if I tell you an idea I need

you to tell me if it's sooooo bad or be honest and

tell me it has potential but I need to work out some

kinks before I take it any further.

I like honesty, it leads to less embarrassment later on. 

However, in this case, it's a good idea!

Great even, would spectacular be taking it to far??

Hmmm, I don't think so ;)

I won't be spilling much about this venture on here.

I don't want to say something and get hopes up and then

it crashes and burns in a fiery explosion of failure.

Ya know what i mean??

Anyways...this was a long post

but i'm just sitting here on my mac writing up

some business plans and well i'm excited!!

I hope you are all having a great day!