This is 1am and I am awake thinking about my life. I have been working with my sister for five years now and she currently pays me N90k. This is someone that sees over N25 million in sales from her business. She owns a very big restaurant and lounge here in Abuja. Of course, as madam’s sister, I have to stay in the store every day, Monday to Friday. With the way the business is structured, I have to be in the office and automatically turn into a sales girl, that is the person people meet when they come, when other staff are not around. On the side, I was able to grow my hair business and I comfortably make about N300k to N500k per month in profit. I do strictly online. I just feel stuck and I don’t know how to leave her business. She has people that do physical marketing for the business, so sometimes the honest truth is some of them collect N500k, sometimes N100k, etc. But I know I can’t do physical marketing and that was not the agreement for me to work for her. I pay all my bills from my business, including my house rent. Yes, when I got my own house, she gave me her old fridge, old TV, and fan, so I won’t say she hasn’t done anything for me.
It is also from my business I get money to buy clothes that I wear to work so at least I look presentable as madam’s sister. I really want to stop and do my own business from my house and see how it goes, but I am so scared that my family won’t allow me to stop. I have tried before and they refused, saying I should stay to help prevent theft sometimes. Ideas get into my head, but God is so faithful, I have never taken any money from her, maybe just little N1k to support my transport, and honestly I am also scared. What excuse or reason will I even give them for wanting to stop? Yes, her business is growing tremendously and sometimes my scared mind tells me she will become too big and I will regret leaving her business, and that maybe when I leave my own business it won’t grow so much. I am just so sad this night and almost crying. Sometimes I wonder how she is comfortable paying me that amount. I asked for an increment last year and she said no, not yet. What do I do?
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