[Small Business Musing] Losing my mind at a coffee shop
[Small Business Musing] Losing my mind at a coffee shop
bc of technology...
Are you trying to do something which seems basic (and easy enough) and then experience an annoying block… not a block you create yourself but a block because things just dont work… then you wonder why, WHY is this happening to me. I reaaally wanted to finally get this thing done that I’ve procrastinated on for months maybe even years and. the. damn. website. just doesn’t work?!
I finally started to get my sh*t together… my business shit. I even found the the personal/ career coach of my dreams. A woman of color that has experience getting F*ckd by the (corporate) man [and also breaking glass ceilings], who also has experience bootstrapping their own business, who ideally comes from an immigrant / and or less privileged upbringing.
I found her!… and I met her for the first time in the most amazing hotel space I have ever been to in LA….(more later)
Back to my problem. I am literally for the first time ever taking care of my finances (business wise). I’ve been using savings and extra dollars from my corporate job to fund my passion projects via my small business….. and I had enough of letting my side business only be a hobby. That’s it! I’m going to make this a serious grow ass woman business and I was going to start with the thing that has seemed like a Herculean task from the get go… opening up a business bank account and credit card. Actually, I didn’t even know if I needed one or the other or both… see I needed wanted help.
Here I am calling the Chase Bank Branch around the street from my house. A building I drive past every day, but did not realize was there. See, I’ve always been “scared” of big banks…. we lived during the 2008 crash. I had used the same Credit Union account I opened up when I was 13.5 working for the City of Burbank (Yes, I started working young because my mom did not think I understood the value of money [she was right] and I got a paid internship of some type starting at the City Burbank Water and Power as an Administrative Assistant for $6.75 in 2006.
The phone options send me in a loop and I’m back where I started and I knoooww they really want me to push option 2 to send a link to my cell phone number to do this stuff online but I REALLY wanted to talk to a human. I caved in and pressed 2, a link was sent to my phone. I access this link via my computer (thank you iphone to macbook pro airdrop) and get on the site. It sends me through the same website version of the info I already knew. I end up at a store locator and I type in my zipcode… there see is branch #whatever and I click, yes I am an existing (credit card) account holder. It sends me to a website with some friendly looking people partaking in some type of small business activity. “Login in above [via your existing account]”. There is no login section and instead its blank. Okay, let me switch browsers. I go from Safari to Chrome. I go through the same steps and I’m back on the page telling me to login above but it does not exist.
Okay, I’m annoyed. I go back and select “No” I dont have an account. I go through a new page and I input my information. The website is smart enough to know 123-000-1234 is not my real cell phone number so I against my will, enter my cell phone number (that Chase already has) but not with the consent from a business perspective (and I envision my phone getting 5 calls a day asking me if I want to open an account). Yes, I want to, but I would like to talk to human at this branch around my house that I did not know existed.
I finally get to a page that asks me when I’d like to come in. Yes! fucking finally. Here I gooooo select 9:00am on the date I’d like to go in. I fill in all the other lil things and hit next…. the page. “The time is no longer available”… ok in the 3 miliseconds I selected it after it popped up its no longer available….I select 10am….. “The time is no longer available”…. 11am….“The time is no longer available” 12pm…
I would cry right now if it did any good but instead my blood boils.
UNIVERSE I just want to be the adulting, small business owner you want me to be. Is this a sign that I should not open this Big Bank, Bank Account?
At this point i’m sitting at the coffee shop and take a look around. Can anyone tell that my heart is racing and I am fighting a website. I am annoyed AF… I order a ginger tumeric tea (leg is still broken and the tumeric is great for inflimation, the ginger is great for my stomach and digestion). I am defeated.
I came here to do some writing, idea organization, general organization of life and I’m fighting a computer bc I want to see a real human IRL…
Will I get this done? Will I give up? Universe what would you like me to do. My head is now buzzing.
To be continued… pls send me the energy and patience…
Has something this annoying happened to you recently?