Ever since we left the Honest2Goodness market in Glasnevin last November, Alan and I have been itching to settle the My Mexican Shop a little. When we started the shop we thought, sure what could be so hard? it's only an online shop!! By God we were so wrong and if we knew then what we know now, we would have certainly thought the whole thing twice! But we're here now, and luckily with very few regrets, which is majorly good! An online shop is just as difficult as a regular shop. Above all when you're running it after your regular full-time job! The pressure is less because you're not fully dependent on the business to give you a salary, but apart from that, you have every bit of pressure added to the fact that you're not doing this full-time, because you've got to go to work too!

So as your business grows, life gets busier and busier, but the amount of time you have for it remains the same. Soon you find your days getting longer and longer, going to bed way past your bed time coz 'you gotta make things work'; you start eating into your weekends (which you were so used to enjoying freely before); quickly after, if all goes well, you find the only free time you have is those few minutes before your head hits the pillow at 2 a.m. every night.