- Up till now, I bet that you’ve been evaluating yourself whether you have the traits to be a good businessman/businesswoman, then you may come up with a new question, “which field can I step into and start a business?” This is a broad topic and I’m afraid that I can’t list every available choice for you. However, where there is a need, there is a market. The products and services in the markets are here to satisfy the needs and wants in people’s life. A business provides its goods or services either for people to live in a better life, or to promote the production of another company’s products. Business and consumers form a line. Material supply, production process, product delivery and the retailers are the stops in the line. When you own a company, it can be a seller and buyer at the same time. It seems the market is the ocean, various business types are the fish, the sand, the sea weeds…although they are different, they are parts of the ocean.
- I had no idea about “business” at all before I became a commerce student at Dawson, although I’m a child of a businessman. In the past 20 years I never had a long conversation with my father. He usually came home from the company before dawn. I remember one day morning, at 7:30 AM, when I was about to go out I heard the sound of the key in the lock and a cough–my dad came home. He slept when I was at school and when the school finished he was ready to have dinner with his business partners. Year by year, I talk less and less with my dad. But it’s interesting that I choose to study commerce because of his suggestion. He is the primary influencer for me to make this decision. Recently I’ve been curious about a vague question, “how is a business founded?” I know that I should ask my dad but I didn’t. In my memories, I never asked him about any questions that needs a long talk. Plus, I had no interest in it. But I clearly remember that my father liked to tell me his childhood story to stimulate me to study harder. He told me that my grandparents used to live in a village and the family was really poor. My father is the eldest son who started to do business after college, because he had to earn money for his brothers and sister to go to school. When I recall of it, I really admire my father because his business is “self-made” from zero. Now, all my curiosity is placed on the specific group, the “self-made”.
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