I Love My Day Job

One of our favorite family hobbies is to turn everything we do into a business. I don't know why we do this because it's all talk. My husband and I both have full time jobs, him as an engineer and me as a Mother. We do it so often that the kids have picked up on it too. "Mom, I'm going to sell this (dumb cheap plastic five cent) McDonald's toy on E-Bay. Do you think I'll get $20 for it?" I reply, "Considering the fact that 20 billion other children all have the same toy and they got it for free, I don't think so."

The kids did actually have a prospering business a couple years ago. It was called the Big Candy Wagon. They sold candy to poor unsuspecting children as they got off the bus once a week, children who where just itching to get rid of their extra lunch money. My kids were making up to $30 a day but they were forced to go out of business when they started eating more candy than they sold and their mean Mom wouldn't buy them any more inventory.

Persistence is going to open her own restaraunt so she can cook and be a waitress whenever she wants and Victor is planning his own party/entertaining business. He has already mastered the art of balloon animals, mime, juggling and yesterday he was perfecting his magic card handling act.

My husband has opened more restaurants, car repair shops, construction companies and private schools in his imagination than I can even count. I've published several self-help books, designed numerous lines of clothing for tall women and even started my own construction company in my mind. We have very busy brains in our family.

Interestingly enough my whole Organizing Bag business wasn't planned in any way. It just happened or rather I was forced into it. I made the bags for myself and then everyone else wanted some and there you have it.

This is a conversation that Stranger and I had while driving in the van the other day.

Me – Do you think I could make a business out of building closets for people?

Stranger – No.

Me – Why? You don’t think I could make enough money to make it worth my time?

Stranger – Well, what happens the first time you drill into electrical wires and burn their house down?

Me – Ya, I would probably do something like that wouldn’t I?

Stranger – Yes, or you might drill a hole through their sewer pipe and flood the basement with stinky sewer water.

Me – Hey! That was one tiny little hole and a small puddle of water isn’t a flooded basement! If you could have smelled sewer water it wouldn’t have taken us three months to find the leak!

Hmmm. I guess I'm going to stick with my day job.