A long time friend and her mate just returned from a caribbean vacation in St. Lucia. She was all excited about the people she met while visiting the island and had received many invitations to return next year. She did not make any promises though because she had booked the vacation as being the last one for a long time.
My friend had been bored with her 9-5 job for some time and was looking for something to give her the get-up-and-go feeling. She had explored many business opportunities including MLM, buying a flower shop, and bookkeeping for small companies. She has been an accountant for many years with a medium size company and found the accounting cycle a drag on her creativity.
Anyway, she had decided on opening a flower shop in her hometown catering to the local traffic. She had recently received a small amount of money from her parents estate and thought this might be enough to get things started. Everything was all set to go so she decided on a having a vacation before she made the transition from her daytime job to self employment.
While on holiday she met an American couple who lives in Kansas city. They got along well during their stay at the resort, and even took trips to several beaches on the island together. Her new friends own and operate a medical transportation business in Kansas. They shared with her many nuggets about opening and running a small business. Their passion for the business obviously rubbed off on my friend who called me as soon as she got back to her home in PA.
She absolutely floored me when she told me she decided to open a similar business to the one her friends own in Missouri. Not wanting to be a dream killer I wished her well with her new business and moved on talk about her suntan and the local foods she ate in St. Lucia.
