My store in real life or thoughts on the usefulness of my endeavors


    Today I go to bed with an incredible sense of victory.

    “I have my own store,” I say these words with pride, with trepidation, a little with fright.

    For three years I have been striving for this. Not just living and working. I had a very definite goal - to open my store. And now, tomorrow will be a new day, tomorrow it will be necessary to look for new achievements, to think over mistakes, to correct and improve what has been created.

    First steps

    Morning at festivals is the most working time. In a few hours you need to get settled: put a tent, tables, lay out the goods, check prices, stick price tags.

    And so, I sit, look at people, drink coffee, brewed right there on a camping burner, get acquainted with sellers and guests of the festival. Very different and interesting people. A huge raven sits on the next pillar, squinting at me with one eye. Unfortunately, it is impossible to treat him - fearful.

    Festivals bring about 20-30 thousand per trip. It’s not possible to earn more - the volume of the machine does not allow it to accommodate so much product. And visitors come here not without money, but they spend more on beer. My task is to attract people to meet them. And provide the necessary things. This year there was a young couple who forgot sleeping bags at home.

    Achievements

    They say that every person must achieve something in this life. "What have you done for hip hop?" I asked myself. You have been involved in tourism for most of your life, but you haven’t done anything for tourism.

    Yes, you help people, you conduct fair trade with them. You select the goods, you talk about them, you are not afraid to say bad about this tent, but about this good. But this is not enough.

    When I invented the folding toilet, nobody laughed at me. They simply did not believe in this idea. Unbelief did not break me.

    Two days later it turned out that it was not me who invented it. A similar device has long been used in the American forces, and in Russia, some enthusiasts did such things from particleboard.

    But that did not break me either. I developed the device, made the drawings, made a probe, then ordered the parts in the factories. The first batch sold in a month.

    Now I can proudly say: I gave tourism folding toilets.

    Victory

    Just a few days ago there will be a large tourist all-around - Crocodile Games.

    The organizers are good guys. The participants are great people. I have known them for two years and am the sponsor of the project. Among the awards, the winners also receive my prizes.

    They are doing a good job. My soul warms that I help them.

    Dream

    I already wrote about my dream in previous posts. My dream is a store with a clearing. In the clearing - tents. I’m in the store myself, Valera’s badge. In the middle of the store is a round table. And free coffee with stew.

    Such a store, more reminiscent of the tourist club of the Palace of Pioneers, I have not yet managed to create.

    But I managed to rent a room in a quite adequate place. At a very reasonable price. And arrange it not so that it is very comfortable, but in general, even nothing.

    By the way, you will need to remember to bring mannequins and a screen for trying on clothes.

    Reality

    Getting out of the internet into reality was not easy.

    Finding a room was difficult. In some places they asked for absolutely exorbitant 100-200 thousand for a tiny room. In others, it was not so simple. One strong man made a demand to use his cashier. I soon said goodbye.

    When there was no choice at all, a good offer unexpectedly came from the Kozhevniki shopping center.

    Now I have on my shelf a recently read book by Kotin, “And nerds do business." The main character opened his first store on the sixth floor. I was more fortunate - I opened on the fourth.

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    The first visitors were locals. The first purchase came out of the box. We have not yet laid out a single product, and have not placed racks.

    Then friends came. They have long been waiting for this meeting. We wished all the best, watched the goods, exchanged experiences and impressions. Summer has gone, summer to see off was sad. I could not even help on Friday with the calculation - we spent the summer.

    Then passers-by and casuals pulled themselves together. Opposite the store is a jewelry department. Husbands assent to wives when choosing jewelry and through glass doors with sad eyes look at the backpacks hanging to my left. I smile and leave them business cards. There will be time - come specifically to me.

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    When we eventually decomposed, a young security guard approached me. “Finally, at least one needed store in this place,” he said.

    I guess I'm still doing the right thing.

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