25 February 2022 The Birthday Journal there was a steady entry of investor companies into the country. I was alsoveryhappy tofindthat therewas a job agency runby a returneeMavis Ewa. Mavis did a great job briefing me on the job market and found me a few interviews. I was offered three job positions but settled with TNT Express Worldwide as a Customer Service Executive. Without going into much detail, I found that the confidence I had gained in the UK was going down the drain. From liaising with high level executives in the Bank of England, I found myself in this new job trying to explain to irate clients why their parcels had not arrived. Sometimes, my boss would take the phone from me in the middle of a conversation. I did not appreciate it then, but I recognise now that God creates discomfort when He wants movement from you. I had been writing for a magazine called ‘What’s Happening’ and when the CEO offered me a job as Editor I jumped at it. It was how I began to build a network since the job entailed, interviewing CEOs and heads of businesses such as DHL, Expert Travel & Tours amongst others. The idea of the café was birthed whilst at TNT Express. I’d gone to Country Kitchen to have lunch alone and had returned with a packed lunch. It seemed that it was not seemly for a young woman to sit byherselfandeatameal. Ihadissues with that, having enjoyed many solo lunches whilst in England, but I suspect that most business ideas are birthed from inconveniences such “The root, the intention, the seed of every venture. It’s something every budding entrepreneur should ponder over.”
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