Stuff Your Boss

I don’t believe I should tell anyone this economy is tricky and many of us have been having a pretty tough time. I lost my job about four months ago when the plant where I was working closed down 2 of their production lines and my brother in law, Barney got his final notice last month when his company announced that they were closing the doors for good.

Both of us had spent a fair amount of time and effort attempting to find new jobs but with no success. However, we were clear on the fact that we continue to needed revenue to pay our bills and support our families so Barney and I decided to go into business for ourselves.

We had no clear idea on what this effort would be as my only real skill and experience was in producing washing machines and Barney had worked as a quality control inspector at a candy company. However, my young neighbor convinced us that rap music, rappers and that hip hop lifestyle was the freshest growth trend in our area today. Now I must admit that both Barney and I agree that the entire’rapper scene’ is just plain foolish but if it makes cash then who are we to argue.

Somehow we decided to go after the jewellery segment of the hip hop market with the plan that we could start off rather small and just offer our goods for sale at flea markets until we could afford to open a real store. So, our next task was to find a manufaturer hip hop jewelry outlet.

We quickly discovered that we had a significant problem in that we used to be a new business with no track record and no credit report which implied that nobody would sell us any inventory apart from cash. They were all very respectful to assure us that credit terms would be available after we were established but it was all going to be cash on delivery at the start. We started scrambling then to find an unsecure personal loans.

Well, we eventually got our money together. Not really as much as we wanted but enough to at least buy some starter inventory and get the project rolling and we had also found some promising wholesale outlets that we presumed we could deal nicely with. However, none of these wholesale vendors was in out town so we were going to need to go which meant making airline and hotel reservations.

Getting the airline reservations was very easy and most of the hotels now subscribe to a hotel SEO sytem that made dealing with them also pretty simple.