{"id":743631,"date":"2026-08-20T03:38:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T03:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/743631\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T03:38:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T03:38:12","slug":"i-quit-my-80000-job-to-make-ice-cream-heres-how","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/743631\/","title":{"rendered":"I quit my \u00a380,000 job to make ice cream &#8211; here&#8217;s how"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wong says working with her brother has been a huge strength but there were also &#8220;definitely a lot of arguments&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They had to learn to behave like colleagues at work rather than siblings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When the company was considering moving from a 5,000 sq ft factory to a 30,000 sq ft site, with annual rent jumping from around \u00a340,000 to \u00a3500,000, Wong says she was more willing to take the risk while her brother was naturally more cautious.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But that difference in opinion has helped them make better decisions as they &#8220;balance each other out&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Her advice for anyone working with family is to set boundaries for how you interact in the workplace.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You have to be really mindful that you&#8217;re being as respectful to your brother as a colleague and you see him as a colleague and not a sibling,&#8221; she says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Now that Little Moons has a chief executive and wider leadership team, the pair are less involved in the day-to-day running of the company which Wong says has allowed them to &#8220;just be brother and sister again&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wong says working with her brother has been a huge strength but there were also &#8220;definitely a lot&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":743632,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-743631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=743631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/743632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}