As a young girl, I have always dreamed of owning and running my own business. So I started young, by trading my stationeries and stickers, selling them at five centavos each to my grade school classmates. In high school, my pocketbooks can be rented for a fee. When I was in college, a classmate encouraged me to sell Avon products and I earned 25% from every sale I made. The earnings I got I also bought the products for myself. I felt so satisfied earning on my own though I never told my parents about it. I know my Dad wouldn’t approve it back then. He wanted us to study first, then work later after we graduate.
So when the perfect time to do business again presented itself, I was ecstatic. I joined tiangge/ bazaars in Greenhills. I produced movie premieres which doubled my capital in a month’s work. I also got into lots of multi-level marketing schemes like Forever Living, Lifestyle, Amway, Pi Water, First Quadrant, E-card and the one selling expensive kitchen wares (can’t remember the name), just because I can’t say no to my friends who invited me to join those companies. Unfortunately, I didn’t earn from any of them, maybe because my heart is not into it.
When I got married, my husband and I ventured into the construction and printing business. We also supplied computer units to a government agency, sold branded clothes from Hong Kong and Italy, gold jewelries and seafood like lobsters and crabs to seafood restaurants in Manila and some five star hotels. We definitely earned from those ventures although it’s quite tiring.
Now, we have opened up a new business, a 24-hour laundry shop, beverage store and cell phone shop. I am also planning to get into the events management business if I still have extra time to spare.
