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Archive for September 2nd, 2009

(My Journey Part 1)

The purpose of the next few articles will be to provide you a picture of how I came to become a home based business entrepreneur and what it is like to own and run my own business from home, “The day in the life of Rachel Reeves” so to speak.

At the moment my business isn’t run fully from home, but that’s okay, because I am loving the interaction that comes with this.  I currently work for three very unique clients and am enjoying the variety of work that comes with this.  The amount of time I work is okay, but there are some tough times when either myself or my boys become ill, or even when I have something extra on in a week.

The Start of My Career Journey

There are a few things that have shaped my life and my career so far.  I started out as a trainee at a small town primary school.  Actually it was with one of the primary schools I had attended, which was in a small country town.  At first I had heaps of trouble remembering to call my supervisor by her first name instead of Mrs S, which is what we all called her when in primary school.  I loved working there and found that I learned so much, because being that it was such a small school I was provided the opportunity to do a bit of everything.  One day I worked in the library, the next day I would be in the office checking off receipts, the next day I would be helping to organise the school concert and then the day after that I would be setting up computers or assisting some students with a software program.

I really loved the interactions I had with both the staff and students, the learning process that I went through and the variety.  I wasn’t paid very well, which you expect when you are a trainee, but I was living at home still with not really any responsibilities and so it didn’t really matter, I adapted.   I absolutely really wouldn’t trade these first ‘working life’ experiences with anything else – it was an awesome way to be able to learn.
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