Aura, was walking from one side of the room to the other, she was very nervous, since all her hopes were placed on the outcome of the meeting, which was going to take place in a few moments, where she, together with her salesman, would try to sell the first big order of her company.

Aura, she had left her job as a designer at the company, and had invested all her money and part of mine in the purchase of sewing machines. She was very tired of working for others, she also felt that her work was not well valued, due to the payments that were made to her.

Aura, watched, as their bosses, sold their designs of flannels, dresses and other garments, in different stores and warehouses, and always saw, the amount of people they had working for them. She remembered herself a lot, from when she started working in the factory, of clothes, there were only eight people.

Now, there were more than seventy employees, there were spaces for cutting tables, ironing and packing rooms, warehouses and there were two huge rooms full of seamstresses cooking on different types of machines, there were some collarettes, straight machines, others for the biases, and so the production process was diversifying.

Aura, in the evenings, always considered the possibility of starting her own business, and said that we could do it, no matter how hard it was to do it, and no matter how hard it was at first. One day she came to the house, she was very upset and disappointed, and tears of helplessness came out, while she told me about the treatment she received at the company and the frustration processes she felt.

—Rodrigo, I'm really fed up. I started with them, and now they hired a manager who treats us like animals. Now, even female workers have to ask permission to go to the bathroom, and they can't go more than three at a time, among other things.
In my case, they take my unfinished designs and pass them on to some new designers, who are from a new design project of the boss's wife, where his daughter is, and some classmates. What she does, the lady, is taken my designs, when I'm going to finish them, she passes them to her daughter and her group and they present my designs as their own, and they demand that I produce more. I'm sick of it! — commented Aura, as the tears of indignation came out of her.

—My love, I know well that you are tired and fed up with this whole situation. Me, I think you should leave the company. — I told him.

—I want to leave, but I don't want to go to work for another company, and go through the same situations.— Aura answered me.

—You don't have to go to another company. I was thinking, we can set up a small workshop in the car park of your mum's house. That space is empty. And with what they are going to give you when you leave, plus with what we have saved, and by asking for a loan from the bank and an advance on social benefits from the ministry, we can buy the basic machines and start the company. I don't know, could you talk to several of the colleagues who started with you and see if they join the idea?. — I said to Aura, with a lot of conviction and assurance in my voice.

—Do you really think we can do it? — he asked me.

—Only, there is one way to know, let's do that project and see how it goes, let's put in it, work, faith and perseverance, and we will come out ahead. — I answered him, like this.

Indeed, after that day we started the whole process, I remember that to save costs, I prepared the place myself with a friend, we placed the electrical points, a small cutting counter, the lamps, some ceiling fans and some extractors for the heat, and then we placed the tables for the eight machines.

Finally, Aura started designing, and one of the salesmen of the company, who was a friend of Aura, came with her, and they started selling, some orders. It was not much at first, I barely gave for the payment of salaries and to pay part of the loans. The rest of the payments were covered by me with the payment to the bank.

One day, talking to some friends in a shop, I got a colleague from the university, and after the reunion, while we were talking, he told me that he was the head of purchases of a company and talking about different topics, he told me that he was going to send to make the uniforms of the company.

I told him about Aura and his company, and then they talked, and he asked for a design for the management uniforms, one for the employees and one for the workers. I remember that what varied were the designs of the shirts and flannels.

Aura worked a lot, prepared the designs and samples, and gave them to me, so that I could take them to my friend, so that he could give the go-ahead, and if I did, Aura's company would have its first big order, which would help us pay off the debts and start growing as a company.
My friend, he really liked the clothes and the designs that I took him, and he asked, to talk to Aura in a direct way. So, Aura attended the meeting with her salesperson. Finally, the meeting was a success, and Aura, made her first big sale and her first big production in the factory.

—Rodrigo, sweetheart, I made the sale, we have a great sale, we did it. — Aura commented to me, when she called me on the phone when she left the meeting.

—I'm very glad, sweetheart, as I told you when we started, with the project, faith moves mountains, and this is just the beginning. — I replied to my partner.

And so it was, Aura continued designing, selling her designs and making orders for companies, achieving with her effort, her work, her perseverance and her enthusiasm, added to some support, to fulfil her dream of being independent, doing what she liked so much.

Thanks for reading me.