Week 02 thoughts
Week two thoughts: Taking this class at 50 years old, I feel a bit like a fish out of water. I still have most of my kids at home, but in only 6 more years we will have an empty nest. I've passed the halfway point of my career life. I'm concerned about my ability to start a new business or career successfully at 50. I might be able to open a business that is successful, but not likely with my husband as I had talked about in the assignment earlier in the week. In talking to him, I see that he is too afraid to take a risk and feels most comfortable playing it safe by working at his job with guaranteed income and health insurance. He does not have an entrepreneurial mindset. It is ok. That's just where we are at this point. So, I have to be realistic about what I'm working with. I feel good about the life that I have lived by choosing motherhood as my career. I realize that I am living more along these lines from the "Introduction to Entrepreneurship"; ...