Mayo 9, 2007 ni nicemorning
Everyone has a dream. For some it is to have their own happy family, others to have a new car or house. For M0rn1ng and i, it is to have a business that we can call our own. It may be small but it should allow us flexibility that would translate to quantity and quality family time. It has been our goal ever since but the baby came first so we have to shelve it for a while.
Morn1ng was working in call center for 3 years and we have a difficulty finding time to sit down and catch up on each other’s happenings. The daily scenario was, he comes home and i get ready for work then i come home and he’s prepares to work. He also missed a year of bonding with B.boy. Since call center work requires him to be awake during night time, he spends most of his days sleeping when he’s at home. I don’t complain as i know his job is no joke. But it’s hard when the couple don’t have parallel schedules. Our household is out of sync.
So after a prayerful consideration of the matter, we decided to take our dream out of the shelf and make it a reality. M0rn1ng tendered his resignation by the end of March. It was such a big leap of faith but we are certain to pursue our dream. Since we will be a single income household temporarily until the business picks up, we made modifications in our budget. With God’s help we are doing pretty well after a month and if we really stick to our budget i am confident that we will stay afloat.
From the beginning we are set to buy a franchise but after a month we are still unable to find a suitable location. One fine day, Morn1ng stumbled on a food cart for sale at Puregold, Libertad. The location is perfect as it is situated at the food court opposite the grocery and we have observed heavy foot traffic. M0rn1ng spent a lot of days observing the day to day sales of the business and it looks promising. We also liked that fact that we will make the food ourselves rather getting it from a franchisor. It will entail more work but we have the flexibility to lower our food cost and thus maximize our profit.
Turn-over will be on the 15th. We hope things go well. 🙂