Assignment #3A Entrepreneurship Story

Two years ago I was working at a summer camper and it was my job as the manager to make sure that all the children safely go home, and go home with who they’re supposed to.  But this summer we had a large, external air conditioner for the building that was in the street in parking spots that we would normally use for drop-off/pick-up of campers. I came up with a new way to do our drop-off/pick-up, by having the parents park across the street. We had to be careful that we had staff there to walk all the campers across the street and only in the crosswalk when the lights were permitting. It wasn’t great initially, in the beginning, we had long waits to cross the street sometimes because we didn’t have the right staff in the right places, but by the second week we had worked out many of the kinks and created an efficient process for camper safety.

I enrolled in ENT3003 because I want to learn the process that is entrepreneurship so I can include that as a potential career option for myself. I don’t want to feel trapped in a job and forced to work for others, so learning how to be an entrepreneur will give me the skills I need to be able to make it in my own small company. I know entrepreneurship is more than that though, I want the ability to improve and change, and I want to see the world in a way that allows me to make things better for myself and those around me. I hope to understand what it takes to and how to go about creating a business and innovating within a business.