Real Housewives Tackle Entreprenuership

My better half is traveling for business so in his absence I've been swept up in the arms of my other love. Which in my case means my business. Since he is away I felt bad leaving the dogs upstairs by themselves to go down into my office - especially since they are on the couch, looking out the window, patiently waiting for their dad to come home. So I moved everything I need to finish up my first quarter of QuickBooks up to the dining room table (don't worry honey, it'll be cleaned up before you get home - I promise!) to keep the pups company while getting through some of the business stuff I need to take care of this week. And since I hate the sound of silence when better half is away, I've turned on the TV in the background and have been spending the night listening to Real Housewives of NYC.

Is anyone else as fascinated by this show as I am? Apparently there's some sort of marathon going on so while I haven't been watching the show, I've been able to hear enough of it in the background to follow about 75% of the show (and seriously, do you even need to follow the other 25%). What struck me about listening to it is how all of these housewives not only have these incredibly glamorous NYC lives, they are also entrepreneurs. Man do they make entrepreneurship look glamorous! According to what we see (or in my case, hear) in the show - and yes, I know that it's not reality and is heavily scripted but bear with me here - if you want to be an entrepreneur all you need is an idea and next thing you know the product is ready to be marketed or your publisher is popping the champagne to welcome you to the world of book publishing. From what I can tell only two of them seem to be really "working" (I have no idea what their names are but one is that 'healthy chef' lady who seems to struggle with some real issues of building a brand and the other is the one who works in her husband's fabric store but does seem to actually 'work' there and seems to enjoy doing it).

Do you want to know the real glamour of entrepreneurship? In my case it's not spending the day at the spa while your product apparently sells itself. It's working from home in your 200sqft basement office waiting for the plumber to come and tell you that the water heater is on it's last legs. It's not being excited to see that your new product just arrived from the manufacturer, it's actually making the product which takes a ton of time and energy (yet anothe reason for no spa time). It's not worrying about what to wear to that evening's charitable event, it's sitting at the dining room table in jeans and a jog bra & workout shirt because you got distracted by work stuff on your way to working out and never managed to extract yourself from the computer. And it's not spending the night at the latest hot bar among the see and be seens, it's spending the evening working on QuickBooks while hanging out with your dogs, a cup of tea, and a blanket around your shouldars.

Based on my above description perhaps that's why there isn't a reality series titled Real Entrepreneurs of the Pacific Northwest.