Diligence - The Key to Success of One Mr Minit
This is a true story of an existing person. His name has therefore been changed to protect his privacy. His basic family details have also been altered for the same reason.
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Once upon a recent time, a 24-years-old school teacher from one of the Pacific Island nations, a new migrant, (let us call him Malik), came to Auckland, New Zealand to marry a young lady of his parents’ choice. They were happy together and soon they had two children, both boys.
Financially however the new family was in difficult times. Both Malik and his wife Sonya worked at MacDonald’s, one at the Greenlane branch and the other at the Mt Wellington branch. They worked hard. They learnt well. They volunteered for overtime work whenever they could. Often they took on extra cleaning up and other mundane duties without fuss and without extra pay. Both were well liked by their respective supervisors. They were also friendly to their colleagues and helped to guide recruits through the many processes of the MacDonald system.
After five years at MacDonald’s, a former supervisor, who had left for a Government appointment, called on Malik to apply for and was selected for another job at the New Zealand Post. Malik worked there for another four years until he was made redundant due to NZ Post’s downsizing policy. Both Malik and Sonya were sad, very sad, but they kept their optimistic outlooks and kept their smiles especially in front of their two young boys, one at pre-school then and the younger, a toddler.
With the amount of redundency money, Malik did two wise deeds. One was to pay the down payment for a two-bedroomed unit in the outer limits of Remuera (a good residential suburb enabling their two boys to later attend Auckland Grammar School) and the other was to buy a small business with the savings they had plus a loan for a private savings scheme (known as tontine). The samll business was a franchised one, called Mr. Minit in one of the many suburban shopping centres.
Sonya worked on two jobs, at MacDonald’s and at Warehouse Stationery, to pay off their mortgage, and private loans, while Malik toil away at his Mr. Minit business to pay off the high rentals of the shop and to have a little saving every month for any possible raining days to come.
Mr. Minit is a business that does shoe repairs, cutting of keys (all doors, gates and cars), watch repairs, engraving of trophies and the like. Please take a look at the website
This day, twenty-five years on, Malik owns two Mr. Minit franchised store and has just acquired a second home to live in, the original home is currently rented out. His elder boy is now at University studying fine arts and his younger boy is at Auckland Grammar Boys, Year 13.
Sonya now manages the second franchised store. Malik and Sonya employ three other workers on a rotating basis at the two stores.
Asked “what is your key to success”, Malik replied, “It’s hard work, it’s diligence - there is no two ways about that!”
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