Take Your Child To Work Day

A Pretty Awesome “Take Your Child To Work” Experience

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Today is Take Your Child To Work Day and I just finished up with my 10-year old daughter Anisa.

Have you ever taken your child to work with you? I never did….

The last couple of years when I asked her if she wanted to stay home with me as I worked my corporate job, she actually said she preferred to go to school instead. Woooooow.

So…this year…my first year as a full time entrepreneur, things were different. Anisa was actually interested in what I was doing and wanted to hang out with me for the day.

Before 10:30 AM, she learned how to set up a website, how to outsource tasks on Fiverr.com, and how to send tweets on Twitter.

Highlight: After we goofed off looking at funny Fiverr gigs (like this one) for a few minutes, we got serious and found a couple graphic designers to hire and a programmer who could update php code for one of my websites. Anisa asked why were doing it and after I explained she said “Wait, so you just paid $15 for 3 people to do something that would take you 6-8 hours to do? Cool!” {total proud mommy moment}

We went to Starbucks for an iced Chai latte and to meet up with a new real estate investor and then things got even more interesting….

At 11:30 AM, I had an accountability coaching call and I let Anisa listen in as I helped a friend work through his focused priorities for the day. At the end of the call, he asks my daughter if she will serve as a consultant to him. He writes children’s stories and wanted her expertise to make suggestions to improve his stories and also provide new ideas each week for more stories. He gave her a proposal and asked her to think about it and let him know what questions she had.

After some discussion and answered questions, she decided to move forward with the opportunity, and so my daughter’s first Take Your Child To Work experience was a smashing success! She learned a few things about business (like the importance of leveraging others to get important stuff done) AND landed her first consulting gig.

Highlight: She’s going to try to hire her best friend as an employee so that she can get him to do some of the work and she’ll still get paid. BOOYAH! {an even prouder mommy moment}

Next up: teaching her how to invoice her first client.

All in all, it was a pretty awesome day with my daughter.