Once I graduated from the College of Science in King Saud University, division of Mathematics back in January 2007, I started looking for a job as a teacher since I like teaching. Luckily, I found a vacant position in one of well-known intermediate schools in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and I took it. I started teaching from the day that I was appointed in, and what a surprise! I always looked at teaching as a comfortable profession where all what the teacher has to do is standing and explaining simple rules and math principles compared to what I have learned in the college. Unfortunately, this was not the case when I was confronted with the realty. Teaching requires a lot of patience, skills, and efforts as well as love and here I mean that you need to love teaching in order to be a good teacher, otherwise your life will be miserable. Anyhow, after teaching for couple of months I realized that teaching is not for me and I cannot afford spending an extra moment of my life in that field; so I decided to resign and rest at home for a couple of months. After resting at home for almost a month and thinking about my next step and what should I do other than teaching, an idea came to me. Why should not I start a home business? I am good at baking and there are not so many professional females bakers in Saudi Arabia and in Riyadh in particular. Then, this idea became even stronger in my mind when I saw Martha Stewart's show at that moment I realized that such a project is not only feasible but needed as well, and this was my first step in the right direction. So I bought all the material needed and participated in small exhibition for females entrepreneurs and distributed free samples of cookies and cupcakes for the attendees as well as my business cards and this was the start for me. Thereafter, people started to know me and place orders for cookies and cupcake something that I could not handle alone so I asked my cousin to help me by answering the calls and taking the orders. My business expanded and I made logo for my products ''Miss Cookies''. However, I was forced to suspend my business since I got engaged since I have to travel to be with my husband. Being away from my country will not deter me from proceeding in this path that I chose for myself. Here, I will seize every single moment to learn and enlighten myself with new and brilliant ideas and who knows what the future holds for us.
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