An Amazon business in the making!!

 My eldest son loves photography. He was always very artistic at a very early age in school.. He wanted to do art and design in school but, his best subjects were the Sciences, so that's what he did for his 'A' Levels and went to Uni to do Chemical Engineering.

In his second year his exam results weren't too good and he started being really ill. Each time we talked on the phone he kept saying he had a stomach upset. I put it down to the food he was eating.. but by the next year he had lost a lot of weight and I insisted he came home and saw a Dr.. he was diagnosed with Chrohn's disease and he had to drop out of Uni. A year later he had major surgery and his fight to get back to good health started.

By this time I had gone through my divorce and bought my own house. He got an easy job in the town and gradually got well, but he was still very thin. Then he wanted to do his first love, something arty! We found a year's course in photography and I managed to get the money with extra teaching jobs.. he did the follow up year. He was always saying he'd pay me back when he made his first £100,000!

He did several jobs on the way, selling in a big home furnishing store; started his own furniture shops, but with the opening of IKEA his business folded. And then working as technician for a catalogue firm, doing photo shop work, rather boring he said.

So it has taken a few years to do a photography job that pays enough for him to live.. he is now a successful photographer taking photos at race tracks.. motor cycles and racing cars.. but when there was lock down, the work stopped. He got income support but it hardly paid his living expenses.

So he started selling stuff on ebay. First it was just stuff and a couple of old cameras that he no longer used, then he found an auction house that sold old and broken cameras and other stuff, watches and electronic things. 

This has taken off in a big way. He cleans the cameras, gets them working with new batteries and now is making enough money to turn down some photography work he doesn't fancy. Things are really looking up for him. Last week when we talked on the phone, he was complaining that his kitchen was full of boxes that a neighbour had saved for him, for his ebay sales. We laughed and joked that Jeff Bezos had started his Amazon business by selling books from his garage and packed and posted them himself!

But now he has time for some leisure and has joined a photography group that meets up for a walk in different places, to take photographs and then they display them and talk about taking them.. and just chatting in a pub.  He is so much happier and has free time for himself. He might be on the way to getting that £100,000 but I don't want any money from him hearing him happy is more than enough for me and that he is well. 

But he is my entrepreneur and he's very nice with it. 

Chrisxx