Personal Narrative: Starting Sarah's Law Firm

‘Herewith appear to be the most pressing matters; one, infective and inexperienced entrepreneurial leadership. Two, the dialectic nature between front of house and back of house, and three, a lack of general training motivation and direction in original concept.’

Before introducing the workplace issues related to the development of four-day workweek, a clear definition of this schedule is needed. According to Department of Labor (n.d.), “A workweek is a fixed and regularly recurring period of 168 hours, or seven consecutive 24-hour periods. The workweek does not have to coincide with the calendar week, but instead it may begin on any day of the week and at any hour of the day.” It might be the “four-day, 32-hour workweek – more leisure, less work” (Wernette 1), or the “three-day, 40 hour, compressed work week” that Vega

Gerber argues that anyone can become an entrepreneur and create a successful company, a departure from the conventional wisdom on the question of whether entrepreneurs are born or made. Using a frame work he calls the "Dreaming Room," Gerber identifies four dimensions of the entrepreneurial personality and recommends a pathway to conceive of and develop a small business.with focused attention and the intention of actually achieving something and understanding the market, your core customers, securing capital, preparing financials—those kinds of elements? Every one of those

True in the statement made that constant work is detrimental to your judgement and thus a disservice to your client. Perspective on issues is necessary to make sound decisions. Here I struggled with the rationalization but had not seen from the angle that by not taking a lunch break I would not have the energy and in turn provide a disservice. Further, risking a lack of presence that influences not only the service but the empathetic engagement with clients. A realization that value in ourselves trades for the value we provide those individuals we serve.

At present, I am about to embark on my final phase of my long-term educational goals in that I have been accepted to ASU Law, and will begin my graduate program in the fall of 2018. When I began my journey at community college, I had intentions to transfer to a four year university to complete my undergraduate degree, followed by law school. I exceeded these goals as I will be graduating in six weeks with not one, but two undergraduate degrees. Furthermore, I will not have any gaps in transitioning directly into law school since I have already overcome the hurdle of the application process. Fortunately, I was granted acceptance at ASU Law prior to my undergraduate degree conferrals. With this in mind, I plan to achieve the goal of completing

"I'm an entrepreneur. … I've always had businesses going on. I got into it (through) just kind of a fluke-type situation. And it just turned into something that was bigger

The client describes a typical day as “early”, due to his work schedule. The client has been a superintendent carpenter at a construction site for 20 years. The client typically works from 6:30 am to 3:30 pm. After work, the client reports he will “get have a few beers” with some of his co-workers. At home, the client works on homework and assignments from school and spends time with his wife. On the weekends, the client reports going to local bars with friends.

Success for me isn’t a destination. It’s a journey. Everybody’s working to get to the top, but where exactly is the top? It’s all about working harder and getting better and moving up and up. - Rihanna

Employees work, on average, 34.4 hours a week, calculating down to 6.9, almost seven hours a day. These seven hours a day could be used spending time with family, friends, or even just alone time. By having a buy nothing day, employees could stay home, enjoying their time with the people who are most important to them. Family is an important aspect to one’s life. By restricting family time, especially in a family of two working parents and kids, they lose that aspect. Having relationships are also important. Though co-worker relationships are important and healthy, having a love life and a family gives tighter, more successful relationships. Studies have shown that in order to be in the self actualization phase of your life, you have to

The day felt monotonous, with very little activity happening. While I don’t need the day to include high-energy activities, the job appeared to be filled with tedious tasks that aren’t especially rewarding to complete. Jobs like coding, whether it be code for a website’s layout or for software, are similar in that they are desk jobs; neither of them require constant movement aside from the hands and fingers, but differ in that, with coding, there’s an indication of progress throughout development, whereas staffing appeared to be a constant cycle without an end, which results in it being unrewarding to

Our remaining days in Saraland had gone by in a flash and on the Saturday before we had left for Mt. Harrison my Step Daddy Cade had decided that we should have a yard sale to try to rid ourselves of some of the unwanted crap that we didn’t want to take with us on the move. We had planned on only taking with us a small closed-in trailer hitched up to the back of the Truckster to transport most of our belongings, so all of our old, run-down furniture and appliances had to go.

I rushed back to my office at 2 pm after two long drilling meetings without lunch. There will be another marketing presentation to host later in the day. Another typical day in office I thought. My mind was distracted with half the time worrying about not being able to meet the deadlines piling on my desk and the other half of the time considering which of the tasks I should do first.

Still, this piece is not particularly about my businesses. Like you, I only have 24 hours, every single day. The itchy question is how do I get the best out of me, and still be able to spare some time for my writing career.

First, in the chapter six assessment we learned about managing small business startups. This “Do You Think Like an Entrepreneur?” assessment measures the likelihood of me becoming an entrepreneur. The self-assessment questions to some aspect of improvisation, which is a correlate of entrepreneurial intentions. Entrepreneurial improvisation consists of three elements such as creativity, ingenuity, and the ability to produce novel solutions under constrained conditions. Successful entrepreneurs also have the ability to work well under pressure while also having action, persistence, and the determination to achieve goals and solve problems in the moment. Based on my personality, I would have assumed that I would was not fit to be entrepreneur because although, I am always

Autonomy is a goal of emancipation which is defined as breaking free from the authority of another. The hope for autonomy is one of the main drivers of efforts to become self-employed. Breaking free suggests the desire to make one’s own way in the world, breaking up draws attention to the striving to imagine and create a better world. Analyzing the seeking autonomy aspects of entrepreneuring opens up the following directions in entrepreneurship research: