Epiphany

I took a truffle class today; I've always been curious how to make those perfectly coated chocolates that look like heaven and taste even better.  I did not, in fact, learn how to make those perfectly shiny balls of joy, but it was still a great class.   The instructor came out, she was about my age, and she has her own gourmet chocolate business.  During a break, I had the chance to ask her, how did she get her start?

She went on to say that after college, she worked as an event planner for a non-profit organization and she had a love/hate relationship with event planning...she's 31...grew up around food and spent most of her time in the kitchen...and I'm looking at her thinking, are you me?  She had enough of event planning one day and up and quit.  No plans, no idea what to do next, but she sure didn't want to work for someone else anymore.  She decided to follow her passion, and she's completely successful.

I left inspired. I've thought about it a million times...no, strike that...a TRILLION times.  I love to cook, I went to cooking school for goodness sake, but I cook for family, for friends, for myself. Starting my own business, working for myself sounds awesome, but...a little scary too.  But, what am I doing now?  Working on my fiancee's Grandmothers house and sending out hundreds of resumes to no avail.

So why not?  At least I can say I tried.  Today is the first day of my future business.  Can't wait to see what comes of it!

Wish me luck!