Personal Narrative: Art In The Park

Free Time What is free time? I wouldn’t quite know the answer to this question. My middle school and high school years have been consumed by school, hockey, and various ways of paying for my future. I have gone from getting nice and dirty fishing golf balls out of ponds, to tying thousands of knots creating paracord bracelets, and to lacing up my skates to teach young hockey players to improve their skating. Art in the Park is a street fair in Plymouth, Michigan where I sold my paracord bracelets. Usually, selling in fairs like this is extremely costly; however, this particular fair offers a unique opportunity to kids. Art in the Park features a kids section which allows kids to sell their products and pay less than normal for their. All three years that I have been a vendor in Art in the Park, I have sold paracord bracelets, a thick strong, and highly customisable bracelet. Although Art in the Park yields great money, the bracelets are hard to make because they tear apart your hands. I have sold over 200 bracelets at each of these fairs, and at the end, my hands were on the verge of bleeding. Running this little business has been a learning process for me, and ultimately has taught me lessons that I could not have learned any other way, such as: interacting with people in a friendly way,
To make that work, I had to collect the balls from the pond using different tools and getting incredibly dirty in the process. I also befriended some very nice people whose house backed up to the golf course who allowed me to set up my table behind their house. This was important because legal reasons prevented me from selling on golf course property. From this experience, I learned that work ethic is crucial to being successful in life and will pay off in the end, and that networking can make running a business significantly