Where my business education really started….

Mum say’s that that haircut was very fashionable, in the 70’s !!!!!

Holly Hobby

Not my tragic drawing of a trawler!

Thanks for coming back and following along with my little chat on the internet…ok blog post #2

So really, who am I and what do I actually have to say. Well I’m just a mum who has always been in business for myself. I was raised in a family who always were in business, my mum and dad had a big business in Melbourne who ironically made glass house’s for the flower growing industry in Victoria and NSW, yes more flowers. Dad would work long hours, come home late and get called out in the night when heating systems went down, he worked hard. Mum was in the office and I can remember hanging around the factory and office on school holidays. There was a worker who used to make us whistles out of peach pips……go figure, the things you remember!!!!

I went to the local primary school, just the usual childhood upbringing so I thought anyway. I remember drawing, and my favourite pencils were Derwent. I do remember going to Eckersleys art shop in Melbourne city, this was an Aladdin’s cave for me, so much to do and see and create with, this was my heaven. It’s funny cause I asked my mum about this and she had no idea of ever taking there. Maybe because it was my heaven and not hers……

I drew Holly Hobby (child of the 70’s here), I loved her hats and the pretty little flowers on her dresses. I was also a fan of Snoopy and Charlie Brown, they featured in my drawings done with those Derwent pencils. I remember lying under the Christmas tree drawing and colouring with my set of pencils in a large flat tin.

I did a little bit of sport growing up, callisthenics and gymnastics, I loved it but was never very good at it. Creative and expressive but I was happier with my pencils.

Moving to the southern Gold Coast when I was 12 was a change but nothing too eventful, I went to the local high school. I did art at school but it really wasn’t my thing then, however I do remember an art class that we went to the Tweed wharves where we were to sketch the prawn trawlers. I did it and was really disappointed with what I created and that the proportions were all wrong. I’m sure it wasn’t the teachers comments it was me and what I was saying to myself…… I honestly don’t think I really drew much after that, it must have been a defining moment!

High school was fairly uneventful, I continued to do gymnastics but as it turned out, I was a better coach than competitor. My afternoons were spent at work with my dad who now had a business making plastic drinking straws. He had a contract with a large national company that they would take all he could produce so he ran the machines 24 hrs/day. We had rosters to pack the straws off the conveyer belt, mine was a few hours every afternoon after school. This is what I was raised on, commitment and hard work, showing up and doing the job. 

Business is about opportunity, working hard and if an opportunity comes along say ‘yes’ and figure it out. I suppose it’s a little bit of the Aussie ‘can do’ attitude and ‘having a crack’ at anything.

Sahra x