When COVID-19 began, I started and manage a home made food service business named 'Annapurna Bhavini's Kitchen': I take orders via Whatsapp, finish their deliveries, and give it to the delivery workers, that I've hired, to dispatch these orders. Like I said before, I used to run a company franchise (Jetking, Old Panvel), and through it, I have come to grow a large network of people. I especially treated covid infected families, the elderly, hospitalised people, and working professionals.
During 2020 (the COVID-19 era), I took utmost care of my family, but then, in November of 2020, I was diagnosed with COVID-19, and I suffered a lot. I especially missed eating healthy, home-made food. There were so many restrictions during that time: no maids, no cooks. To make sure no one ever had to suffer like I did, I began my food service business.
Due to the pandemic, children had to attend online classes. Their screen time increased, and their contact with children of the same age decreased, so I thought of starting tuition classes for children studying in playgroup to Grade 2. I wanted to dsitradct them from media, and divert their minds from online to offline, and teach them basics of education moral and values in a very friendly environment.
So whatever experience-based knowleedge I've aquired since 1989 to 2013 was very useful for me to become a good housewife, a loving mother, a caring daughter-in -law, an approachable neighbour, and a respectable and responsible member of society. I was able to balance my work and my life with the cooperation of my dear husband. Now, I am a housewife, and I have been since 2013, having my food service business and my tuitions.
Since I was small, I have always been the breadwinner. I have always worked tirelessly. I am a businesswoman through and through. As the great Spanish artist, Picasso once said, "Action is the foundational key to all success."
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