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100% true. They change some information around but it's all for the same person. They also lie out their asses (because Indian and they suck at coding)
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Hekotat
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Yes, I have. But seeing the number of small businesses collapse around here the last few years doesn't inspire confidence.
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Fair point. Just know, that you have no idea why the businesses fail. Lots and lots and lots of small businesses fail because of poor management, lack of business acumen of the principals, and lots of other reasons having nothing to do with market conditions. If there is a need for a product/service in any given market, the market will support it. Being the only guy selling bottled water in the desert is great. Being the 50th neighborhood bar in a 3 block radius, not so much.
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Start it as a side hustle/contract work and build from there.
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Yeah, tons of businesses fail because the owner knew how to do the thing that the business does, not how to run a business. Being great at cooking doesn't mean you can run a restaurant. Lots of cattle ranchers are this way. They think their job is to raise cattle, not run a business that raises cattle. "The E-Myth Revisited" is a good read on this topic. So is the thread on this board with the guy who wanted to start a pest control business. He thought a few years of spraying bugs taught him everything he needed to know, thought he was smarter than his boss, and refused to take any advice. He never even got started but while the market and the economy can make businesses fail, many of them are started by people who were always going to fail regardless of all that because they didn't do what it takes to run a business in the first place.
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Sanrith Descartes
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100% this. You certainly don't need an MBA to run a successful business, but taking accounting/finance/marketing/management 101 at your local community college will do wonders for any entrepreneur. In that order I might add.
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looking outside of your chosen profession, are there any in demand fields where you live? I knew a guy who worked DEA in Miami. He opened a small side hustle residential HVAC company. He did nothing but run the company, hired people to do everything. It was Miami so there is always demand for HVAC. When he retired as a Fed, he just ran the company full-time. Also always in high demand in Florida is lawn maintenance. Low barrier to entry and I know guys who solo (no employees) gross $75k+. Not get rich money by any means but his only costs are fuel and maint for the zero-turn mower. Shit, with Trump in charge, I'm sure the demand for lawn maintenance is gonna skyrocket.- 1
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Cutlery
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Small perk of being slightly overworked.
"You only have 3 supervisors?"
Yeah, 8 hours a day.
"Well, guess I don't need to worry about being laid off until the day shrinks to 16 hours then, eh?"
ToeMissile
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A similar RIF for management happened in Q4 and there's been an ongoing reorg happening over the last 9 months.
There's plenty of room for efficiency gains at my company, we're 100+ years old and suffering from all the legacy procedures/tech/etc that I think most of us have been exposed to in one form or another. I will say that in the nearly 3 years I've been here I do see a solid attempt to move in the right direction. Time will tell.
Cutlery
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Plenty of room for efficiency gains at mine too, but that's because we still do shit on paper because we haven't caught up to 1990s tech like every other modern warehouse. But that's okay, because it just makes me look like a superstar for implementing all these great procedures that you could learn by working, I dunno, anywhere other than here.
Oh, and we don't recycle. It's hilarious because we were mandated by the city to have recycle bins in the office, but the Mexican who comes in to clean at 5pm every night just bags it all up and hucks it in the dumpster.
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Good luck. I'm just trying to survive until the economy turns around and people are hiring again.
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Yeah, definitely on the nervous side. It is a pretty big job market down here in Southern California. Hopefully I get something fairly quickly and don't end up having to deal w/ a bunch of shitty traffic. On the bright side, my schedule will be pretty great; get the kids to school, work out, job stuff, skills ++, get a bunch of stuff done around the house that's been on the back burner.
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Lol one of my spies said there is possibly a lay off brewing. I most likely won't be involved, but it also may mean its time to go if they gut too many of my team or supporting people I rely on to actually do work. Tick tock I guess.Yeah, definitely on the nervous side. It is a pretty big job market down here in Southern California. Hopefully I get something fairly quickly and don't end up having to deal w/ a bunch of shitty traffic. On the bright side, my schedule will be pretty great; get the kids to school, work out, job stuff, skills ++, get a bunch of stuff done around the house that's been on the back burner.
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So last night reach out to a buddy at a vendor and he gets me a verbal job offer in like 10 minutes to follow up on if I need it. Hour later I get the list of positions being targeted from my HR spy, none of my people on it.
Hmmm decisions. I am trying to finish up some big projects by summer. If things change may not make it. Otherwise may wait until then.
Hmmm decisions. I am trying to finish up some big projects by summer. If things change may not make it. Otherwise may wait until then.