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9 · Open for Business

explained that, from now on, if something needed doing around
the house I would pay for it.
‘It will take me hours, I don’t have all the right tools and I’ll do
a lousy job. Tomorrow I’ll find a card in a newsagent’s window
for a gardener and I’ll get an expert in.’
She couldn’t argue with that, and from that day to this I haven’t
even hung a picture. My skill, I realised, is in knowing where
to find a man who knows how to hang a picture much better than
I do.
Much as I enjoyed running the business and working with
Aisha, after a couple of years I started to realise that the boutiques
weren’t making the most use of my talents. I had been really good
at recruitment and I’d enjoyed it, and now we’d got into such a
routine with the boutiques that it was getting easier, and that
meant I was starting to miss the challenges of recruitment. I
realised I actually had the same problem with Aisha’s business that
I’d had with my dad’s: it wasn’t mine. It wasn’t my dream, it
wasn’t my passion. I’d proven I could run a business; now I
wanted the challenge of running my own.

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