Guest written by our friend Gladys Fuentes
Being a small business owner has been hard in this economy, that’s for sure. I know it doesn’t seem like that big of a deal but for me, being part of a team is more fulfilling than earning a lot of money and sitting in a cubicle all day which is why I sprung off and started my own business last year. I’ve loved every minute of it and I’ve learned so much about things like smallbusiness.xo.com and dealing with customers and all of it comes together to make me a pretty effective boss, if you ask me. I guess I just didn’t have any idea before now how hard it actually was to get stuff done in a work environment but I’m learning and that’s the best I can do. I just don’t know why anyone in their right mind would want to stay at a menial job answering to some big boss their whole life – that just wasn’t for me and as hard as this is, I’m much happier being a part of a team here.