Working Hard
My cousin now owns a multimillion dollar interior design business. She runs her own company and everyday she gets to do what she loves. The thing is, it hasn't always been that way. She worked her butt off to get where she is today and it really does inspire me (and kind of scare me) to see how much her hard work really has paid off. She started off restocking the office coffee supplies and getting the dry cleaning for her boss and now she runs her own business. She really does have the motivation and drive and business smarts that any girl wishes they had.
She started off in high school working in my aunt's office as a secretary. My aunt is an accountant for an architecture firm, and she got to see everything that went on behind the scenes and after the buildings were built she got to meet with clients and find out their style to direct them to then interior and exterior decorators which is how she realized what she wanted to do. After working this job for a few summers (I worked there too!) and doing paperwork and handing out promotional pens and mugs, she finally got up the nerve to talk to someone in the decorating department about a job. They liked her so much that they gave her an internship (not many people get an internship their summer going INTO college). But she was really excited to get to work hands on with clients and get to know what really happened behind the scenes. So she took business classes and design classes in college and every summer came back to work for a different department of the design company. I think that really did help her, because although some of the departments bored her or really weren't what she was looking to get into, she was able to see every aspect of the job and today it has helped build up a whole company from scratch.
Her senior year of college is when she made it all happen. Before even graduating she got a job with a design company and then when she graduated she moved so she could take it. When the company was about to be sold and go out of business later that year she (with help with a big loan and my parents) bought it out and started her own) It is amazing to see where she is today from where she started out but I really do admire her!