I told hubby that I wanted to earn some income online. I wanted to sell something like other SAHM. But I do not know what I am capable off. I do not know my skill; special skill. I maybe into sewing now but I am not sure whether the product I sewn is good enough to sell in the market. Hubby told me to find my passion first then focus on that passion. If it is sewing, don’t go think about selling wall stickers, clothing, car accessories or koi pond supplies. Aiyo! What is my passion leh???

Halleluyah! We have finally paid up our last 1k beginning of this month. It was not easy you know. 1k may seems little to some of you but it took us 3 months to have that extra 1k in our business account. I am so glad that part of my hard earned online income is also being used to pay up the business loan. I jokingly tell hubby that half of the business is mine!

Do you know that not all wives are willing to share their income with their husband? I know a few. One of them is my ex-colleague. Her salary is hers and her hubby didn’t even know how much she has in her savings account! This is really not healthy in a marriage. I don’t understand how can a wife live her everyday life with the husband thinking that he might leave me one day for another woman. So, she must save some for her “in case” future. Where is the trust? Where is the transparency? Will the marriage survive with this kind of attitude?

After running an internet cafe for almost 4 years now, we have changed our office furniture a few times especially the cheaper chairs. I always believe that we must pay for quality but sometimes, our budget does not allow it. At that point in time, we were really in need to replace the office chair but we did not have much cash. So we settled for a cheap office chair. In less than half a year, the chair broke. Hmph! We really must set aside a small budget to replace our office furniture; must buy good quality ones this time.

I tell you why this wife cannot work at her husband’s shop.

Firstly, she will help herself with the drinks from the chiller. That’s RM1.60 - RM2.50. If she brings her kid along, doubled or tripled that amount.

When she gets bored because Farmville cannot load, she will take a packet of peanut to chew. That’s RM1.30.

She mistakenly open the wrong PC and some smart boy played at the PC discreetly without paying. That’s RM1.00 to RM2.00.

Sometimes, she photostates wrongly. That will be about RM0.10 - RM1.00.

She got bored again. She orders Maggi Goreng from the Mamak shop next door. That’s RM3.00.

If she brings her eldest daughter along that will be another RM2.00 - RM6.00 of computer usage depending how long she has to work at the shop.

So, let’s total the above.

For 3 hours of working at her husband’s shop, she spent RM15.80.

Ok lar kan? Coz he is paying his part-time staff RM4 per hour. Wife must pay more lar right.

We know the importance of knowledge and education but not all of us like to study. One of them is my dear husband. He is very smart but schooling and exams are nightmares to him. If he ever wants to take up another degree in business, I must warn him that he has to take the GMAT exam to see whether he can survive the the rigorous courses of a graduate management or business program. Well, there is always the gmat prep courses that can help him pass the exam with flying colours but I’m not sure whether he wants to go through another nightmare.

I get very irritated when one of hubby’s part-time staff wife kept telling me to increase her husband’s salary. As though hubby’s business is earning so much profit. Maybe what he saw in the daily sales worksheet shows that profit is high but those are gross profit. I think, her husband’s take home salary every month is more that hubby’s. I am sure they have savings and can afford to buy gold coins unlike us, no savings at all. I kid you not!

A lot of mommy bloggers have started a webstore to sell clothings and children accessories. I was tempted to start one too and even found a supplier of children clothing. Hubby encourages me to do that too and help him sell the car accessories and maybe some industrial products. I would love to help him earn more money for the family but I just do not have the time to spend long hours on the computers like before. Now, I am only allowed (by my children) 15-30 minutes of computer time at one time in which it is not sufficient if I want to run a webstore. Unless I have a helper which I don’t have any at this moment.

We are almost there to finishing up paying our business loan. We are sure gonna celebrate God’s blessing with our staff and maybe buy one of those cool tv stands for the shop. Hubby loves watching TV.

However, that is not the end of paying to the person that loans us his money. The loan is interest-free. To repay his generousity, we are continuing to pray for God’s blessing on the business so that we would have extras to pay him some interest. How’s that?

Hubby has a Bachelor Degree in Law (MU) and at present, he is studying his 2nd degree in Mission (correspondence). By God’s will, he hope to graduate this year. I wonder whether he will go for the 3rd degree in Business Management. Maybe he can try the online business degree this time around since he is running his own business now.

I read that WGU’s online business degrees are specifically designed for working adults. I am sure they are flexible enough to cater for the busy schedule of a businessman. If time permits, I would like to obtain a 2nd degree too provided online degree is affordable or give special discount for a SAHM like me.

If not because of the ex, I would have a MBA degree. He never encourage me in pursuing higher education. Why? He was just a Form 5 school leaver and with me being a degree holder already made him feel inferior and insecure. Anyway, that’s my past. If any of you is in the same situation as me, it is never too late to pursue your dream. The trend now is online university.

If I am still working I would love to sign up for the online mba with WGU so that I can climb the corporate level faster. It is specifically designed for experienced business professionals and managers who are seeking upward mobility. They use the competency-based approach to education which is an ideal match for experienced business professionals with extensive “real world” experience.

For more information, do check out their website.

Yesterday, we skipped church because the family is here for the weekend attending a wedding. Since the house is full and I have more than enough helpers, hubby went to his CC to clean up and arrange the back room after the renovation. By adding 6 more computers, we have to expand the front portion of the shop’s space and reduced the back room space.

There are so much to be done and he is doing it all alone. Next, he needs to drill hole on the floor to fix the internet cable for the 6 computers. This is a tough job if we do not have the proper tools. We are still asking around for those who have those cement drills, spring plungers and other tools to ease the job.

That can only be done during Sundays when the CC is closed. No idea when can we start operating with 30 computers in the shop.

Thanks to my dad, I am able to do settle on job for hubby. Since I am not well enough to drive, my dad has been coming to fetch me to his place in the afternoon for the past 2 days. PTL that today I am much better; no more vomiting but still dizzy when I walk too much. By afternoon, I am feeling a lil bit alive and got my dad to drive me to a furniture shop to buy computer tables and office chairs for hubby before bringing me to his place. The furniture shop has cardboard displays where they place their pamplets and handouts. PTL that their price is much cheaper than the one we usually shop from. I have not seen the tables and chairs yet. I hope the quality is the same as the other shop.

Praise God for His blessings. Hubby is expanding his business by adding 6 more computers to make it 30 computers in his CC. That’s the max we can put in the shoplot. These 6 computers are imported used computers with 17″ LCD screen and it comes with Window licensed too. Hubby managed to bargained to lowered the price to RM730 only but these computers does not come with graphic card which cost RM130 a unit. Well, it is still cheaper to buy a brand new computers. I wonder whether the seller sells LCD tvs or not? It will be wonderful if we can have one 50″ LCD TV at home. hehehe.

I just realised that I have lots of incoming links. I don’t remember submitting this blog to a web directory list. I hope this spells “money” or “page rank”. Taking about money, I still have not receive any reply from the advertiser. Looks like no income coming in for me. And…hubby decided not to buy any car until our children outgrew our cars! He wants to save some money to expand his business; buy more computers coz the demand is increasing. Which is good coz it also spells more income. Let’s just wait and see coz he changes his mind very often when it comes to buying a car.

PTL!

When he came home to tell me that. I said, “Only after you terminated your staff. I wonder how much money she has taken from the shop!” Thank God she only worked for 2 months and hubby found out that she has been dishonest.

Is it so difficult to get an honest employee.

The previous 2 part-timers are very honest employees; we attended the same church. But they are not free to help hubby because they are very busy with their own full time job.

God, please send one that fears you.

I have been going to hubby’s shop every evening this week with baby. Each time we stepped into the shop, baby will surely wants to latch to sleep. This arrangement is not good for me coz I need assist the customers while hubby takes his bath. A few times when baby is latching there will be customers coming in to photostat. I have no choice but to unlatch baby when the customer is not looking. It is very embarrassing; what is the customer saw my tits!

A blogger friend of mine left comment saying that soft music helps her baby to sleep soundly. Maybe I should try on my baby too. But I need to buy one of those mine ipods and place near him in his baby seat each time I go to hubby’s shop.

If hubby still practices law, I won’t be whining about money now. However, if hubby still practices law, he won’t be my husband now! If you read my love story before then you would know the reason.

Hubby said he does not like to practice law due the stress. I guess every job has their own stress and it depends on us on how to handle it; whether you are Mesothelioma lawyers, accountants, doctors, teachers, engineers or just a clerk.

With hubby running his own business, I think there is a certain level of stress in it when income is not sufficient, staff cheating, no staff and most of all his health is affected due to long working hours.

I should be writing this post in my Blogspot blog but according to my stats, less people reads this blog compared to that blog. So I shall rant here.

I was driving to hubby’s shop to send him his dinner yesterday evening. Even before I started driving, I made a plan to hop over to Giant with baby after hubby has done taking his dinner and bathing. I wanted to buy chicken thigh so that I can bake chicken again since my children loves it so much and I wanted to give some to my mom’s coz on that day, I told her I will give her some but ended up none at all coz after we dig in, all left was the breast part and my mom does not like that part.

As I was sitting at the counter, waiting for hubby to finish bathing I decided not to go and spend. This is because I am not getting enough income from online to pay my bills at the end of the month. This sucks!

Even though I know I can’t go to work now, I kept hoping that I can. Everyday when I drive my girls to kindy, I passes a few factories and I kept wondering whether there is any vacancy for me there. I miss earning for myself and for my family.

If you are wondering where is my husband; he is still around but I cannot depend on him. He wants to do what he likes even if it means not earning enough to support the family. I know he is praying and trying very hard to earn more but after 3 years, business is not doing any better. If I were him, I will go back to his previous, previous profession even though I dreaded it but I know I can get fix income every month for my family. To me, it is family first and my wants come later. But he is not me and I will not force him to do what he does not like.

Maybe this is one of the reasons as to why I want my baby to grow up faster. So that I can send him to a babysitter and go back to work. *sigh*

I better go back to sleep now. It is 5am already and I need to wake up at 7.30am to breastfeed and get my girls ready for kindy.

I have started sending dinner to hubby at his shop since he has to work full day after he terminated his one and only staff.

I drove there will ALL my children and they cause a havoc at the shop! The bigger ones will play catching in the shop, then they will rummage their daddy dinner to look for food that they can eat, then each of them will take a drink that is for sale there, then one of them wants to PU lar then PM lar and my baby will want to latch to sleep.

Today, I am going to send all of them to my mom’s except my baby.

Hubby fired his one and only employee because she has been dishonest many times. From the very beginning I already expected that she won’t be working long with us. Either she would leave for other job or we terminate her. Kinda disappointed that it is the latter.

I wonder how much of the business money has gone into her pocket. The first month when she started working with us, the sales dropped. I got a feeling that she “transferred” some of the sales into her pocket. She is not only dishonest but lazy too.

I kept telling hubby to switch on the CCTV again but he refused. Till today I still don’t understand the reason he didn’t want to do that.

Now we are back to square one until we get a replacement. Hubby will be working from 10am to 12mn Monday to Saturday!