Who doesn’t dream of owning their very own business? My cousin John is a successful small business owner, making a tidy profit off of ownership of a chain of restaurants in Chicago. He is living the American dream, you might say, but getting to that point was like a nightmare.
I used to work for him when he opened his first restaurant. It’s been a tradition in my family to own small businesses – or at least to try. My dad ran a small construction company, my uncle ran a furniture store, but times were so lean that neither of them had any work for me. I was in highschool, and there wasn’t much for me to do but follow the mind-numbing American tradition of flipping burgers that summer – that is, until John called me.
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