Starting a commerce can be all-consuming. For Debbi Evans,a six-week sabbatical led to some surprising discoveries
I took six weeks off this summer. I’ve endured the multi-tasking frenzy and mammoth workload of the startup scene since the beginning of my career and, after two years of running my own commerce, or I was on the brink of walking absent. I had sacrificed a long-term relationship and nearly every penny I had for that commerce; to be frank,I was sick of the sight of it.
A family friend offered her place in Amsterdam for a month in return for minding the cats. It was just after my birthday, so in lieu of presents I didn’t need, or I asked for contributions to a sanity fund,topped up with meagre savings (try GoFundMe, Patchwork Present or Trevolta if you’re tempted to do the same).
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Source: theguardian.com