Sick and Tired of the 9 to 5...

[dickey1331]

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Salaried workers make the same no matter how much they work unless they get OT.



You aint lying. If I can get out a minute before 5 (very rare) the difference is huge. With daylight savings time coming soon it only makes it feel worse. I leave when it's dark out and get home when it's dark out.

welcome to alaska

[ScoobySnax]

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I am in the process of opening my own business. It really is not a option for me but something I HAVE to do.

My mom (parents are divorced) and step dad own a hydraulic business. They gross in the realm of 1 mill a year after expenses.

My dad and step mom own many things. They are both land men and work from home but bring in around 200,000 a year. Then they own a bar, a Four plex, and in process of opening a restaurant.

Both my families do very good for themselves. I have been told by my dad numerous times for me to find a business I want to open and he would back me with the money.

Now after talking with my girlfriend. We have a nice house, nice cars, and bills are starting to become more. It is time for me to make the move. So I started getting everything together tax wise and get my self in position to make the move to open my own business.

But I am doing it all on my own. I don't want my dad putting money into it. I want to know I did it all by myself.

I am looking for financial freedom and also freedom from working a 9-5. Going to get it started and going. But hoping if everything pans out. In 5 years or so, pay someone to run it and I will have the freedom to do as I wish. Hopefully be on the golf course ALOT more

Man that is awesome! Best of luck in that endeavor! Seems like business acumen runs in the fam! You should be good

[Phobia]

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Man that is awesome! Best of luck in that endeavor! Seems like business acumen runs in the fam! You should be good

Thanks man. Yea, I mean it is not anything I am not familiar with. I run the company I am with now. I do everything from purchasing, to sales calls, to outside sales, to inside sales, etc. About the only thing I don't handle here is warehouse and the books. But my mom is a accountant and handles the books for the hydraulic business so I should be able to have her set me up a quick books or something for now to handle the duties.

People think having your own company is so far fetched. But it really is not. All it takes is a idea, some guts, and a little know how of how it all works and you are good to go.

1) Have a idea
2) Get a distributor
3) Make calls
4) Ship orders out

That is a very very bare bones simple version but that is about the dist of it.

get you a idea, find a distributor of what you would like to sell. Set you up a sole proprietorship, make you some sales calls, and then once you get orders. Just phone the distributor, send a Purchase order and let your customer it might be 3-4 days to get it in.

Zero inventory to start. A tleast in the line I am going in.

Basically what I do now. I am just doing it with a different product. At the moment I do sales to the medical industry. But we stock very very little of anything. It is all shipped direct to the customer. Basically we are like a middle man. Since each client can't have a account with every product it buys they go to the people who have those accounts.

[Money99]

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Working is for suckers.
I have an 8-5 job with a 60 minute commute to and from work. So by the time I finish supper it's past 6:30 pm. That gives me a whopping 90 minutes to play with my kids per week day. Yay.

I can't wait for both my kids to get in school so my wife can get a full time job. Then maybe I can find something closer to home. And who knows? I might actually like my job. Who would have thought.

The Europeans have it right. They work 30 hours a week and take a 3 hour lunch/nap break every day.
Sure, they have small homes, don't drive fancy cars and will never own $400 hand bags.
But they're happy. What's up with that??

[rspencer86]

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The Europeans have it right. They work 30 hours a week and take a 3 hour lunch/nap break every day.
Sure, they have small homes, don't drive fancy cars and will never own $400 hand bags.
But they're happy. What's up with that??

That's what I'm saying, if given the option between more days off or a raise I'd take the days off. What good is money when all you do is eat, work, and sleep?

[ScoobySnax]

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That's what I'm saying, if given the option between more days off or a raise I'd take the days off. What good is money when all you do is eat, work, and sleep?

I heard that.

[Money99]

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That's what I'm saying, if given the option between more days off or a raise I'd take the days off. What good is money when all you do is eat, work, and sleep?

I hear you.

My issue is I'd like to own a house in the country somewhere. Those aren't cheap.
But if I can find a small house, on a decent sized property, I'd work partime so I had more time.
I don't want the fancy car, the fancy house or the need to travel the world.

Our life is pretty simplistic. We live for our kids and find cheap ways to have fun.

About the only thing I'd really like to have that's a bit of $$$ is a pool - so I can enjoy my part-time life.

[VDusen04]

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That's what I'm saying, if given the option between more days off or a raise I'd take the days off. What good is money when all you do is eat, work, and sleep?

Well said.

[USF11]

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This thread speaks to me, I just quit a job (Loan Processing) working 8-5 which really was a 6-6:30. It made me fat, miserable, and hopeless. I am sitting there with single teenage moms basically working for $20 an hour. With no health insurance and after gas and tolls we are cutting into that $20 a bunch. Wondering why the %$(#@ I just wasted time and money on college.

It's such BS I dont even know where to begin. Between my car payment, student loans and my phone bill I am at about $900 a month.

A decent place to live in my area is $1200-1500 a month.

So I'm 27 (I didnt start college till I was 23)living back at home, a semester away from an MBA with no job.

Realistically, the finance industry won't be hiring again for like 2-5 years.

My life is completely on hold. I was planning on getting my first divorce out of the way by the time I was 30.

This is a good book though to read, I highly recommend it and it has given me some hope.

[Scottdau]

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Scott;

That's nice. But that's going in about 100 times too many for me.

M.K.
Knight165

Oh yeah that is right you work 24 hour shifts. That is true. But I think I will take my 6.5 hours a day job and 4 hours of that is with the students. The rest is Prep Time!

[Matt10]

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I'm working 8-5 as a sales rep for a merchant processsing company. Honestly I hate cold calling and being cold called, but after doing it now for just over a month, it's growing on me. It is a laid back environment and the individuals that I get to help with their business are very grateful.

I think the notion is to make sure you're doing a job that you believe in, if you're forcing yourself to be there - it's time to look elsewhere.

Despite my growing knowledge for this industry, I am still looking somewhere towards my job preference (telecommunications). Couple of interviews lined up next week, wish me luck!

[crumpled_heap]

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People should learn to like their job no matter what it is. We live in a hedonistic society where nobody wants to do any work.

[ScoobySnax]

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People should learn to like their job no matter what it is. We live in a hedonistic society where nobody wants to do any work.

LOL man that is far from the truth. There are plenty of people that want to work. I guess we should be thankful that we have jobs during this time, but does that mean I can't be happy with the work I do? That's where we spend majority of our time, so we should definitely enjoy it. Just my opinion.

[Scottdau]

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To be honest I think you have to learn how to like your job. Yes is great to be able to love your job and I do love my job, but some times people need to find what they like about their jobs and focus on that. And if you can't find anything, that might be a good time to look for another job.

[sportsdude]

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People think having your own company is so far fetched. But it really is not. All it takes is a idea, some guts, and a little know how of how it all works and you are good to go.

1) Have a idea
2) Get a distributor
3) Make calls
4) Ship orders out

That is a very very bare bones simple version but that is about the dist of it.

get you a idea, find a distributor of what you would like to sell. Set you up a sole proprietorship, make you some sales calls, and then once you get orders. Just phone the distributor, send a Purchase order and let your customer it might be 3-4 days to get it in.

the bolded part is so true. After graduating college two friends and I started up a company. It was a pretty simple idea but we had a few connections and knew how to do most of it, so it didn't seem too far-fetched. Our first month we pulled in $10,000, of which about 60 percent was profit, which may not seem like the biggest deal except that a few "advisers" we had talked to said they would expect us to be in debt by anywhere from $10,000-30,000 at that point. We even found ways to reach out to our target audience by spending almost no money whatsoever.

The company didn't last more than a few months though. The problem with doing business with friends, is doing business with friends. In trying to grow and streamline the company all we did was keep in getting fights with each other, making everything personal when it shouldn't have been. We're all still friends, but things are a little different now.

In the end I'm kind of glad it worked out the way it did because I love what I do now, and I learned a lot about myself and life in the process. But still sometimes I think about the money we were pulling in and wondered where things could've gone.