Entrepreneurship Story

Entrepreneurship Story

When I was younger I was only exposed to a small part of entrepreneurship. During the summer months my younger sister and I would always want to have spending money for during the week while our parents were working. Both parents thought we should have our own money to spend and save but they were not going to give it to us. We had to figure out a way to make our own money. We lived on our farm for most of the summer, so we decided to plant a giant field of corn. They agreed to help us and pay the initial spending costs to plant the corn. My sister and I were responsible for picking the corn from the field, cleaning it, counting it, and bagging all of it at the day. We told people throughout the town that we were selling the corn and took a count of how many bags we would need for that day. Then, our mom would drive us out to our farm and we would start our day and brings the filled bags and give them to our customers the next morning.  My sister and I had money to spend for snow cones and lunches in town during the day. We even had a little cash leftover to pay our parents back for the corn seeds that they planted for us initially.  We had a very successful summer with our small corn business and did it again the next summer.

I originally joined this class to simply understand more about entrepreneurship. The idea of being an entrepreneur has interested me before and liking it when I did it when I was younger and sold corn with my younger sister. I know not all will succeed and some will be very successful. Even if I don’t have a career as an entrepreneur I want to understand the ins and out to be able to use the skills in my everyday future career. This way I will possibly more aware of what might be going on around me in a business type environment.