(((happycheeks))),

There are always going to be people who are critical no matter what. When I started my business and made a plan, there was no short supply of people who had negetive things to say.

If I look back on different jobs I had since I was as young as 11 and 12, well, I started by babysitting and actually built up my own little clientel. I was a mother's helper when I was only 13 and I was basically left to run the home while both parents worked building a business and didn't get home til almost midnight every night. I actually learned alot those months. I also had done "cleaning" to also make money and I learned a lot there as well. I did allow myself to work all different kinds of jobs and every single one of these jobs, I was learning something about myself and people in general. And what I also learned that was important, is that I liked to make my own money and be as independant as I could be. I had my own money so I could make choices and buy things "I" wanted without having to ask my parents and give them all these reasons why I wanted something.

Happycheeks, you are "working" and getting up and "doing something" that has a reward of "personal gain". When we do that, expecially if we get to see someone who has his/her own business, we open ourselves up to "growing and gaining". And when we do that, we get closer to learning about "who we are and who we could be". It is much better than just sitting and wondering what to be, even if someone gets an education, well, unless they have experience working and doing something, they could just end up with an education and no where with all in how to apply it.

With myself, because I had worked in different areas, when I got the idea for my business, there was part of me that felt I could do it, and that came from my history of how I learned the message "I can do it". If we have the sentiment of, "I am too good to do this or that", well, often that ends up with "doing nothing" and that brings on a sense of being at a loss.

There is nothing wrong with working with your father in "his business" because you are going to learn more than "just the work itself" you are going to learn about business.

So don't let yourself be open to "criticisim" because you will always hear "negetives".
Make up your mind that you are just going to enjoy this new venture and while you do it, you will also be learning.

Open Eyes