Quite frankly, I could never make it as a singer, but I've still got the stage and I've still got the microphone, but instead of singing, I'm talking. One of Blakeslee's motivations for starting her own business was more time for family. At the time her youngest child, who has attention deficit disorder, was 11 years old. She enjoyed being more available for her kids, cooking dinner more often and spending more time as a family. This generation is finding that there's more to life than the 80-hour work week.
Life is too precious.
She performs marketing services for several clients, including the Davenport Museum of Art and Moline Parks and Recreation, but the biggest part of her business is putting together antique shows. Schilling, who lives in Moline, Illinois, said she started researching the antique show market about two years before she left agency work. She quit her job one year before Cassandra was born on March 14, 1996. Now Schilling works at home with Cassandra crawling around underfoot and even takes the baby to meetings with clients. I'm able to accomplish all the things I did before, it just takes me a while longer.