posted 12-13-2005 01:58 PM            

(Maybe I should work on my spelling!)

posted 12-14-2005 08:58 AM            

We opened a construction company a few months ago. That company isn't getting a whole lot of work because most of the work goes to minority companies. <I told this all to my family last night and my brother referred to my doing this as 'giving in to the MAN'> Having a company 'owned' by a women makes it a minority company. Being that I am the only women that works here, both of my boss' are not married, and I handle all the books already, I was first in line. We haven't talked about it in length yet, but I do know that I am going to suffer NO (bad) tax burden from this, I am going to get a promotion and raise--something I need desperately--and from how I understood things yesterday, I definately have at least on foot in this multi-millon dollar family business.

I am at a point in my life, being a 21 year old single mother, that I need to 'get ahead in life'. I need to start building a foundation for my family. This is a great opportunity for me-'giving in to the MAN' or not. I a definately looking forward to the opportunity to grow educationally and business wise, as well as, financially.

posted 12-14-2005 11:41 AM            

My dad has a lawyer friend who has handled all our families small court needs, i.e. traffic tickets. I am thinking about asking my dad to see if he will look into this, when we get it all together.

The company I was hired by, IFS, has been in business since 1923. Right now, the company is owned by a father and son, but it has been in the family since day 1. There are only the dad, son, me, and one project manager, that are actually 'employees' and here every day. So, we are a pretty close knit group. I am completely confident that they wouldn't ever do anything 'bad' to me, but I am still definately going to have someone else look things over.