Blog #11 and Interview

Please post a summary of your week at internship. What were the highlights? What were the challenges? What was memorable and why?
Hmm, what happened this week.. I think one of the things that bothered me this week the most was the weather. It was difficult get out of bed and be greeted by the cold air since we have no heater. That brought me to work with a "gosh I'm so tired" feeling. I actually couldn't stop yawning. One of the things that causes yawning is oxygen deficiency. When I'm tired, I tend not to take deep breaths which is why I yawn. I thought it'd be a little offensive to Christine and Israel so I tried to hide it, which didn't work well. IN REALITY, I was having fun with what I was doing. I wasn't yawning because I was bored or anything, which is a common misconception. I just get so caught up in work that I sometimes forget to breath. Hah, you may think that's crazy but it's something I noticed about myself when I'm tired. Aside from my always tired personality, I think this week went by great. I'm almost done with my final project, I just have to call competitors now (Eek, I'm no good on the phone). Though, like I said in my previous post, Christine brought me to a social networking lunch (I liked the food, the dessert looked the best. But it did seem like that were overly preparing it) where a speaker was talking about "how to get more done with less stress". I thought that was great because I love listening to speakers. A lot of the points she made were something I found useful. Those were most of the highlights from my week.

Interview:
What was your educational background?
- C average student Junior High
- High school 3.7 (A's and B's)
- Dad would've paid any college
- Business as a kid (Candy and lemonade)
- Her dad owned his own company
- Business english and communications class in college (It was great)
- Senior in high school, dad's girlfriend got into property management (Leasing at 17)
- Real-estate licenses at 18
- For 5 years property real-estate
- 23 she wanted to own her own business (No money saved up)
- Saw ad for cleaning company (35 thousand dollars no load) (Went to 5 different banks)
- 2 employees (Taught her how to clean)
- Went to clean (Cleaned for a year and a half) (Do paperwork while cleaning) (Had cellphone on hand)
- Dec started cleaning company
- Put supplies on credit cards (Initial investment was 1k dollars)
- She read books about business (She's a sponge :D She was winging it)

What is successful?:
- "Do what I love everyday"
- Comfortable living
- Able to give back
- Live life (Take vacations)
- People work for retirement (Doesn't travel, too old, Christine takes mini retirements)

Delegation:
- You have people do different jobs (You can be good, but someone may be better)
- When she hired her first office manager, she was watching her like a hawk
- Delegation is important (Frees up your time)
- Working on the company and not in your company
- Talk once a month out of the office (Works as a team versus boss/person)
- Good business relationship
- If someone was shrinking, she would try and refer people if she has too many jobs booked

Second Part of the Interview: