Blazing My Trail

When I look around at entrepreneurs, I don't see me. I'm not like them and I do not relate to them. I see business owners as income-focused, motivated by upward mobility, opportunistic without a community or global good priority. This could be my own misguided understanding, but it is my perception.

I don't see me. I've struggled for my entire year as a small business owner to find my place. I don't want to talk about what I do or post about it on Facebook because it doesn't seem like something I would do. I'm a social worker, a bleeding heart for those in poverty and I am a pacifist. I have zero interest in business and capitalism and find my energy from my fellow social justice activists. I'd rather gouge my eyeballs out than have to endure business classes.

So how does this hippie-at-heart find herself the main breadwinner in a two income family? How is little old me contemplating being free of debt by the end of another year and still supporting the causes I hold dear? I'm going to tell you.