A Personal Story by Suzanne Mulvehill, Author
Employee to Entrepreneur
I was so intent on staying in the corporate world that I went back to school in 1993 to get an MBA degree. Two years later, I received that degree and got a job making more money than ever before. I thought I had it all. The problem was that I wasnt fulfilled.
While trying to convince myself that I really was happy with my job, I had a disturbing intuitive message one day that what I was doing wasnt it. I realized that I had a yearning to be or do something else. I just had no idea what. For two years, I vacillated from feeling content with the security of my job to feeling unfulfilled. Sometime around the third year, I gave in to this yearning. I began an idea journal listing ideas of what kind of business I might like to start and spent time thinking about being my own boss.
This exploration stage came to an abrupt halt when I had an experience at work that left me feeling betrayed. I was given a job to manage a sales team and it was taken away because I didnt pass a test. I worked with this boss for 2.5 years at two different companies, and knew he knew me better than the...