-How Ashmanie Husein balances two businesses and a full-time job

By Marissa Victoria Foster

ASHMANIE Rohit-Husein is good at what she does. And she is good at a lot of things, so it came as no surprise that she is able to balance a full-time job and two businesses.
The 22-year-old is a secondary school librarian who grew up in the Line Path village in Corentyne, Berbice. She is also the proud business owner of “Jessi’s Touch of Elegance” and “Sweet Treats by Jessi.”

Jessi’s Touch of Elegance is a beauty brand that she created through her love for make-up and fashion. This business provides services for special occasions. She is specialised and trained in make-up artistry, henna artistry, acrylic/gel nail art and hairstyles.

Providing services for one business is already a handful, but Ashmanie has pushed above and beyond and recently started a new business.
She launched “Sweet Treats by Jessi”—a business that satisfies a sweet tooth for all ages. Sweet Treats by Jessi provides a wide variety of assorted desserts and pastries, such as, cupcakes, birthday cakes, brownies, éclairs and much more. Her services are extended to not only Berbicians but also to Regions Four and Five. She does all of this while still maintaining her regular day job. Jessi explained that she’s quite the multitasker. She’s always on the go and is well invested in self betterment.

She is skilled in making desserts and pastries. Her beauty skills are also like no other (hair, make-up and henna). As such, she has merged both businesses to offer one special occasion package to her clients. “Instead of them having to look for more than one person to get the job done— I do it all”, said Ashmanie.

When asked how she copes and manages to run multiple businesses during the covid-19 pandemic, her response was, “Running multiple businesses along with a full-time job is no easy task, however, with the support of my parents, my husband, my in-laws and my cousins— I can manage to get it all done”. “They’re my main support system.”
As if her schedules aren’t packaged already, she also finds time to create paintings. This skilled multitasker stressed that it is one of her favourite hobbies and something she’s never given up on. Painting brings peace to her mind, on any stressful day. She’s currently working on expansion plans for her two businesses. She wants to offer more goodies and improved beauty services to her wonderful customers.

Ashmanie is an example of how 24 hours in a day can never limit what we can accomplish. She hopes to serve as an inspiration as there should be no limit on the amount of titles one can have to his or her name. “Be sure to have a good support system, an organised plan, a structured day schedule and most importantly—love what you do”. If you have more than one dream job in mind, then you can have it. Use her story as motivation.