08/05/2018
Hi. Bit of a long post coming up here so please bear with me. I get a lot of queries from people asking me who I am and what I do etc. So I decided to put pen to paper so to speak :) Here goes:
For those of you who don't know me, my name is Marian. My background is in finance - I worked in various banks both here in Ireland and overseas. I was also the first Manager of a rural development company which, I'm delighted to say, is still going strong nearly 20 years after it started.
Anyway, back in 2008 I realised it was time for a change. I needed extra income - my job as a Relationship Manager with Bank of Scotland didn't pay enough - we had a mortgage, both Brian and I had leases on our cars, we were paying €300 a week in childcare etc etc etc......we always had "too much month left at the end of the money".
2008 was the year that everything changed. That was the year that the economy crashed. The construction industry just stopped and Bank of Scotland was taken over by Lloyds Bank and we knew it was just a matter of time before we were made redundant. So the hunt was one for "something else".
I always wanted to be a stay-at-home mom. And I always wanted my own business. But it is was very hard to get something that would tick all the boxes and pay the bills. So I went back to college part-time. I was studying counselling and psychotherapy and the plan was that I would set up my own practice.
Anyway - to cut a long story short - one night while on a coffee break from lectures (I was studying part-time because I was still working full time), I found a flyer in the ladies bathroom that changed my life.
I found a way that I could still work full time, study part-time and yet build an income in my "spare time". I began to work this business during my lunch hour and my daily commute. Initially my extra income was about €200-€300 a month but that made a HUGE difference to me. Very gradually I grew a solid business and when I was made redundant in 2014, I was in a position to decide to stay at home.
* I am now a stay at home mom
* I now own my own business
* I now get to do all the things I want to do, when I want to do them
This is not a "get rich quick" scheme - you get out of it what you put in to it. We still have a mortgage; I changed my car in 2015 - I still have a lease on it but we have no childcare expenses and I no longer have that horrible feeling every Sunday night of having to go to work on on Monday morning.
I work from home and I love it. You can do this too. Please let me show you.
If you would like more information, or if you would like to meet up, please get in touch. You can comment below of message me. My number is 087-1203946 so you can call or text me. Let me help you achieve what it is you are looking for. Thanks for reading this.