the idea to start up her own company was not something that came out of the blue. it was an idea that started about roughly four months after winning the lotto, when she’d already paid off the second mortgage on her parent’s house, her credit card debts, paid in full for 2 new cars (for her, and for sylvia), put aside enough for her second degree, and most importantly paid in full for her and shaun’s new house. and still... she had much more money than she knew what to do with without guilt creeping around the corner.
wilf suggested she donate it. shaun told her to keep it in savings for a rainy day. sylvia said to invest and save. none of that really fit, and when she said she wanted to help others with it, she couldn’t narrow down a cause. there were so many people that could use the money, she could very well just donate as she’d like to individuals and carry on.
she did that for about two months and stopped when it started to feel too stressful. not to mention that now she had all these tax forms to fill out for all her donations.
it’s when she’s talking to nerys one late evening then it finally takes shape. some of nerys’ friends were having trouble finding new jobs, be it that they lacked workforce skills or that they didn’t know where to start looking. donna had suggested they go to a temp agency, and nerys had laughed at her because c’mon donna being a temp isn’t going to really help anyone.
from that conversation on, donna couldn’t stop thinking about how she would make sure an agency did help. to help make temp jobs into permanent jobs, to help give people the stability that would set the track for a better life. like many other endeavors in her life, spite was a very big drive for all the hours of research she did until she finally booked an appointment with an attorney to make things serious.
shaun had been surprised but supportive when he found out. sylvia had seemed uneasy but not as judgmental as she’d been expecting. wilf had been her biggest cheerleader, and she found herself spending many more nights out on the hill as she spoke about the technicalities that kept popping up. with their teas and laughs keeping them warm, donna would look up in the sky and feel something, a reminder that this was right, this was going to really help more than one-time donations or giving to some faceless non-profit. and perhaps, most importantly, most selfishly, this was going to be HERS.
and after a month of steady advertising, in october of 2010, TIMELY DONE LLC began its operations with one office so bursting with activity that donna almost wept.