Of the rewards priviledged to businesseurship

Alternative business goal: Effortless profits

business and entrepreneurship by kechingDecember 31, 2019January 30, 2020

I have already reached my business endgame

business and entrepreneurship by kechingMarch 24, 2019January 30, 2020

Of the rewards priviledged to businesseurship by kechingJune 15, 2013June 29, 2015

Mum and dad over customers

My business runs in a way that when my mum and dad need me to run errands with them such as bring them to the temple, I can. I dedicated the last four years to steer my business operations to its current state. Work and customers are not my priorities.

Of the rewards priviledged to businesseurship by kechingJune 5, 2013June 29, 2015

Promise to self: 4 quarterly 2-weeks holiday

Within 2 years. The restful holidays will provide necessary boost to remaining 10 months of work as I grow lazier and lazier, by choice.

Of the rewards priviledged to businesseurship by kechingJune 1, 2013June 29, 2015

We have too many work days in our lifetime

Time not only flies when we are on holiday. In fact time also flies when we are at work. The reason why time seem to slow down at work is because we have too many work days.

business and entrepreneurship by kechingJune 1, 2012July 18, 2019

Feeling embarrassed and paiseh over taking my friends’ monies

When I first started my business, something that took me quite some time to accustom myself with was taking money from my friends. The kind of moral accountability that accompanied their support for my business, ie when they bought belts from me, was quite choking. Will my leather be too weak? Will my buckles break […]

business and entrepreneurship by kechingJuly 10, 2010July 23, 2019

The most difficult conversation I ever had with a customer

My business is going international! Got to spruce up on the Thai language. First email received สนใจกระเป๋าใส่Laptopค่ะ ใบที่เป็นประเป๋าหนังใส่โน้ตบุ๊คสีน้ำตาล ไม่ทราบว่าราคาเท่าไหร่ แล้วขนาความกว้าง*ยาวเท่าไหร่ค่ะ แล้วมีแบบให้เลือกเยอะกว่านี้มั้ย จะซื้อเป็นของขวัญให้เพื่อนนะค่ะ รบกวนทีนะค่ะ *name removed* ด่วนนิดนุงค่ะ เพราะว่าเค้าเกิดเดือนหน้านี้แล้วอ่ะค่ะ First reply International order! Excited! สวัดดีครับคุณ *name removed* เรามีแต่สามแบบครับ แล้วไม่ว่าขนาดเท่าไหร่ ราคาของกระเป๋าสีน้ำตาลคือ SGD80.00 ประมาณ 1900 บาท ผมทำขนาดกระเป๋าโน้ตบุ๊คเท่าไนร่ก็ไ่ด้ จึงขอคุณบอกยี่ห้อและแบบของโน้ตบุ๊คของเพื่อนให้ผมครับ วันเกิดของเพื่อนวันไหนครับ เคอร์เช็ง :D Second email received I almost flipped when I […]

business and entrepreneurship by kechingJune 15, 2010July 18, 2019

Family business

I sometimes wonder what it’ll be like working on my family business together with my grand-dad if he was still alive; in comparison with other multiple-generations family business in which the grandparent helms the business.