Nick doesn't actually know much about chocolate beyond the bare basics, all of which I taught him. He also doesn't know anything about running a business. It's his boss who he's looking to for the business side of things, though his boss has never managed a business like this either. The job they are working right now is a trade, and neither of them have worked retail. I'm the one who has managed retail stores before, including an online store. I just want to pursue schooling in business so that I can be sure I'm absolutely prepared in certain areas I am lacking in in terms of the practical side of owning a retail store. If they were to get me on board, I think I would be helping them more than they would be helping me.

I realize there is room for more than one online store, but I know there are other things he's passionate about he could have chosen, and he picked the one thing he knows I want for myself more than anything. He did it with good intentions but I don't know if I have it in me to work for my ex boyfriend and his boss, who I don't even know, for the business I want to own. I've done nothing but swallow my pride and work for other (usually incompetent) people at every single job I have every worked. I just don't think he realizes how serious I am about making this my own and why I won't be satisfied with just taking over something they built without me. That's more what I want him to understand.

Unfortunately, as much as I want to look at this purely professionally, it is a very personal thing for me. Like I said, it's not just a job for me. I'm in it for the creative and the business aspects equally. I feel like if I went for this I would be sacrificing the part of me that needs creative control. I don't really feel comfortable with that, especially if I'm not getting much out of it.