Taco Meetings & Sally

My friend and I are looking into taking on some new clients together.    We got together the other week to talk business and, for lunch, she took me to my first taco truck.  The tacos were delicious.  We’ll be meeting again this week and plan to hit the taco truck once more. Naturally, the meetings are now entitled, “Taco Meetings.”  It’s been great to be my own boss these past few months, but it’s even cooler to work with someone that you choose to work with versus having someone else choose for you.  I feel like this whole self-employed thing is starting to come together into something real.  The independence feels great.  The flexibility is awesome.  Creating your own client relationships versus having a relationship by way of your employer is very empowering.

I feel like one of those women you read about in the Title Nine catalog who have 30 different hobbies, run own their own business and still manage to hold it all together…and look great.  Imagine a picture of a sprite 28 year old brunette, tanned, trim, wearing pastel-colored active-wear and riding a baby blue bike with a shit-eating grin on her face.  The caption below would read:

Sally’s greatest passion is saving the declining purple dolphin population in Bali but her day-to-day consists of miraculously balancing her home-grown graphic design business (all proceeds go to charity) while patiently caring for her 17 children, ranging in age from 2-12 years old.  By the way, she designed and constructed the bike she’s riding in this picture!  Go Sally!   

Hey, don’t get my wrong:  I’m no Sally.  I do have my own business, though, and 1 out of 30 is good enough for me, Sally!  Perhaps I should see if Title Nine will do a photo shoot of me … not on my bike, but on my couch.  My active pose could consist of me, surfing the web … a half-eaten bowl of Mac ‘n’ Cheese in the background?  Eh?