You Know You’re A Small Business Owner When…
by Tiffany Markman on 12/10/12 at 7:22 am
2 comments
New business owners….how many of these do you relate to on a daily basis ?
1 – A hard drive crash can rapidly ready you for a nice padded cell in a home for the criminally insane.
2 – You glibly speak about your dining room table, garage and/or study as ‘the office’, even if you’re wearing pink bunny slippers or working on your patio at the time.
3 – You were once able to go to a fancy dress party as a very convincing zebra, because you tried to use those awful refillable toner cartridges – you know, the ones that come with the syringe?
4 – Your daily mood is 100% proportional to the strength and reliability of your Internet signal.
5 – You’ve seriously considered a) branding your car or b) erecting a massive billboard along the perimeter wall of your house.
6 – You are absolutely paranoid about being breathed on by people with a cold, a cough, gastro, pink eye or any other dreaded lergy.
7 – You are the only person in your social circle who despises public holidays. Same workload; fewer days to do it in.
8 – December is both wonderful and terrible. Yes, it’s holiday time, but you (usually) don’t get a 13th cheque. And everyone else in your life does.
9 – You’ve never watched the cute panda sneezing video on Youtube.
10 – You’ll leave your pants at home before you go to a meeting without a business card.
11 – Your staff members are on nickname basis with your spouse, kids, maid, gardener, mother and mother-in-law.
12 – You keep a notepad and pen next to the bed, so that when you wake in a cold sweat at 4am you can list all of the urgent and important things you have to do the next day.
I’ve scored 9 out of a possible 12. Yikes. Now you try. And let me know: Are there any I’ve left out?
Tiffany Markman is a freelance web and print copywriter, editor and trainer who works for diverse clients, large and small, in South Africa and overseas. She writes regularly for Bizcommunity, tweets prolifically, reads voraciously and is known as a grammar, plain language and SEO nazi. Give Tiffany a shout on 082 492 1715 or visit her website. You can also sign up for Tiffany's newsletter here. View more articles by Tiffany Markman.
Peter Carruthers
Oct 12th, 2012
Great article Tiffany. I loved it. I scored well with 11 Yikes.
Tiffany
Oct 12th, 2012
Thanks for the reply Pete. Now why am I not surprised?