The other day the journalist to whom interviewed me about our startup called me (the D-day for of our digital publication is getting nearer). She asks me to where she could send the photographer to take my picture. Usually this takes place at the companies’ offices, but in my case, there is no fix office. With the portable computer in one hand I can work where ever I want.

This seems to have become a usual thing for my oldest son (in a few days he’ll be 4 years); the other day he said to me while we were preparing his things to go to the English class: “mum, don’t forget your computer, so you could wait for us right there and not get bored”.

The best picture must be that of the mum in the front seat of the (parked) car with the computer on her knees and the children sleeping behind. It usually some weekends when we go to my parents-in-law’s house. The children and I lose the aperitif, but they win in good humor and I advance work.

I suppose this is the daily struggle to reconcile family life of a working mother who now also is an entrepreneur, because when the children are at home, they are my priority.

Other than the time limit, it’s the entrepreneurial wheel which is pushing us. At this moment we are not totally anonymous anymore. We have been for about two and a half months on the net, we’ve got the media attention and we started to contact some entities. So, the first requests of entities interested in advertising on our web start to appear, entrepreneurial magazines start contacting us to explain our start-up experience…. The time has really come to have our own VAT number, a way of demonstrating our identity as a company and not anymore as a project. Formalities, contracts, shareholding… all necessary elements that our final user will not perceive, but compulsory if we want to make the work well made and especially in a professional way. So, this is what is occupying us the last days.

Monday, September 22: a rainy day. My first appointment of the day arrives late. Too rainy. I change plans. Since I’m already on the road, it doesn’t matter to get a little wetter. I decide to pay a visit to the Chamber of Commerce of Tarragona. I want to brief myself of the new agreement that La Caixa and the Women Association of Entrepreneurs and Employers have signed offering advantageous credit conditions. I decide to make some exercise and take the stairs until the second floor. Bad idea. I arrive late. At the same moment, the elevator goes down with the president of the association. Again I change plans. I go to the Social Security office, even though I doubt that in eve of holiday (in Tarragona we are celebrating the Local Festivity) it will be open. But this time I’m lucky. There are few people. I suppose that many shared my doubt, and above all got frightened by the rain. A very kind woman updates me about the freelance business. And again that sentence: “If you were unemployed, you would be able to capitalize the unemployment fee, or you would receive…”. Before I have time to be angry again, she smiles to me and says a magical word: “Allowance”. I am woman, youngster and minor of 35 years, and therefore the State wants to help me to become an independent worker. Because of that I have the right, during the first 15 months (postponable until 30), to a 30% reduction of the social security quota. I consider this the best news of the day. It’s not a lot, but not every day can be rose colored.

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