SteveBorg wrote:
I want to write a series of articles about work from home and starting one's own business as someone on the spectrum. But I'd love to hear first from any of you who actually do so, in a profitable way, and what some of your challenges and benefits have been with such a set up.
Many years ago I lost my job in advertising, and I had two children and a wife. We both started waiting tables, and it was good for me... it got me out and talking to people. But we weren't covering our needs, and we decided to try and sell carrot cakes to a restaurant (like my sister in law had done in the recent past). I had a pretty decent restaurant job in downtown DC so I took our cake to the chef at
The Palm. I had great (lucky) timing, and the head chef (Gary) tried it, and liked it. He said, "You guys never work out... bring me six tomorrow." I sold tens of thousand of dollars worth of desserts to the Palm over 16 years. We worked out of our house for only a few months, and then I found a kitchen to rent in a community center. We ended up serving 80 restaurants and half a dozen employees, and making 500 cakes a week... Back then they sold for $15, now they would cost $30.
You could work from home making desserts even nowadays in my opinion, if you only serve a few local restaurants. But I soon ran into a customer who insisted that I get all of the proper papers and commercial kitchen, to do normal (above the board) business. He was very helpful to me, and guided me to an accountant that set me up, and watched my back.
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09 Mar 2014, 9:53 pm
