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i feel like my life, at 31, has not really begun
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Date: February 20th, 2018 2:02 PM Author: maniacal home psychic i am an accountant in dc living a fairly boring existence.
since the time i was a high schooler i knew i was an entrepreneur. i have had this burning feeling that i have to create something. i have to get out there and SELL a product or service to the public, to get out there in front of people and hustle like a motherfucker, to not take "no" for an answer, to be an aggressive motherfucker who is going to make shit happen.
i feel like until i do this, until i start something, i'm just going to be floating through life. with a kind of constant sense of unhappiness and question of...is this all life has to offer?
i'm lucky in that i'm still relatively young, but the main problem now is that i don't really have a well thought out business idea yet. i'm working on it, granted, but i'm still not there yet. but i really need to get things rolling here. start doing SOMETHING. start talking to people. start building a thesis statement for my business.
i feel like many entrepreneurs are like this - we don't start businesses because we want to. we start them because we have to. |
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Date: February 20th, 2018 2:02 PM Author: Cyan metal rigpig ur life is over hth (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3898531&forum_id=2#35445537) |
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Date: February 20th, 2018 2:03 PM Author: maniacal home psychic thx bro
that's why i come here
for the camaraderie and the sense that i am not alone |
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Date: February 20th, 2018 3:01 PM Author: Dull Cerebral Patrolman (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3898531&forum_id=2#35446104) |
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Date: February 20th, 2018 2:02 PM Author: Mauve macaca (the second coming of peterman) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3898531&forum_id=2#35445541) |
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Date: February 20th, 2018 2:03 PM Author: maniacal home psychic i recognize that moniker. what's his story again? is he the dude who tried renting out a bunch of airbnb properties or whatever? he's in dc right? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3898531&forum_id=2#35445555) |
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Date: February 20th, 2018 2:06 PM Author: Mauve macaca i don't really know him but gist is he's a ~30-something puer aeternus waiting for his ship to come in. he's also allegedly a crypto millionaire. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3898531&forum_id=2#35445577) |
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Date: February 20th, 2018 2:07 PM Author: maniacal home psychic fuck
that's one thing i wish i had gotten in on earlier - that crypto bullshit
that shit is such a fucking bubble though, christ. i'd rather make my money in shit that is actually going to last |
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Date: February 20th, 2018 2:12 PM Author: Mauve macaca crypto is garbage that no one understands. sure some people get rich from speculating, but that's because they're lucky...not visionary rocket scientists.
vision of blockchain technology is legit though. |
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Date: February 20th, 2018 2:05 PM Author: maniacal home psychic 31 is not that old (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3898531&forum_id=2#35445565) |
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Date: February 20th, 2018 2:05 PM Author: olive stead ceo just dont get married (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3898531&forum_id=2#35445563) |
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Date: February 20th, 2018 2:05 PM Author: maniacal home psychic why (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3898531&forum_id=2#35445567) |
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Date: February 20th, 2018 2:45 PM Author: swollen school immigrant Marriage is of absolutely no benefit to a man. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3898531&forum_id=2#35445927) |
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Date: February 20th, 2018 2:51 PM Author: maniacal home psychic well im gay so i dont really have to worry about this (as much) as a straight guy (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3898531&forum_id=2#35445992) |
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Date: February 20th, 2018 4:24 PM Author: Stimulating pozpig kitty oh then you've already won (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3898531&forum_id=2#35446647) |
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Date: February 20th, 2018 2:05 PM Author: Mischievous location tattoo I started my business at 29 and sold out at 33, will probably start another one in a year or two.
I will tell you this: every single problem you have as a wagecuck gets solved by being an entrepreneur, but you replace it 1:1. it's not better or worse, just different, and you gotta pick which problems you'd rather deal with. |
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Date: February 20th, 2018 2:06 PM Author: maniacal home psychic what type of biz? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3898531&forum_id=2#35445580) |
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Date: February 20th, 2018 2:07 PM Author: Mischievous location tattoo you know my story already. I used to poast as "an idiot buying ur grandma's minerals for $2.4mm" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3898531&forum_id=2#35445586) |
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Date: February 20th, 2018 2:08 PM Author: maniacal home psychic oh right! yes, i know your gig. you are my inspiration on here (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3898531&forum_id=2#35445593) |
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Date: February 20th, 2018 2:11 PM Author: Mischievous location tattoo 180 dude
I'm cooking up a few things right now that could lead to my next good size deal. I wasn't able to last more than 3 weeks of "sabbatical" without taking some WFH contract work out of soul-crushing boredom and the motor running. |
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Date: February 20th, 2018 2:14 PM Author: maniacal home psychic i'm cooking up a few things too. but the area i've recently become interested in (artificial intelligence/machine learning) is very complicated and it's been hard to try to figure out the ecosystem out so i can build a compelling service idea (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3898531&forum_id=2#35445645) |
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Date: February 20th, 2018 2:36 PM Author: Mischievous location tattoo expect to lose money the first 12-18 months so make sure you can support yourself and your business needs during that period (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3898531&forum_id=2#35445847) |
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Date: February 20th, 2018 2:42 PM Author: maniacal home psychic thats why im trying to build a war chest now of like 50k so that i'll have that going forward (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3898531&forum_id=2#35445906) |
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Date: February 20th, 2018 2:07 PM Author: Mauve macaca please elaborate with an example (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3898531&forum_id=2#35445583) |
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Date: February 20th, 2018 2:09 PM Author: Mischievous location tattoo http://www.xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=3842367&mc=57&forum_id=2#35025554 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3898531&forum_id=2#35445607) |
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Date: February 20th, 2018 2:21 PM Author: Mauve macaca are you a natural quantitatively? like do you have a knack for mental math. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3898531&forum_id=2#35445705) |
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Date: February 20th, 2018 2:22 PM Author: Mischievous location tattoo I'm alright at it. why? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3898531&forum_id=2#35445716) |
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Date: February 20th, 2018 2:27 PM Author: Mauve macaca i feel like it seems to be a common thread among successful entrepreneurs with your background.
something like (1) above average quantitative processing speed + (2) Munger's mental models + (3) emotional stability + (4) above average risk appetite + (5) above average work ethic = successful entrepreneur |
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Date: February 20th, 2018 2:31 PM Author: Mischievous location tattoo this seems like a good assessment.
I also have a problem with authority, can't hold down a normal job for longer than a year or two because of that, and care more about ongoing financial freedom and being empowered to tell people to fuck off than fraudlies "retirement."
that said, I'd suffer a regular wagecuck gig if I could spin it off into my own company a year or two down the road. |
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Date: February 20th, 2018 3:14 PM Author: Mauve macaca I am rapidly developing a problem with authority. Realizing in my late twenties that life is total flame, and it's getting harder and harder to kowtow to the conventional (and totally bankrupt) standards of success and morality that we inherited from the genx/boomer crowd. problem is I'm a $120k+ student debtmo. I'm blasting the loans as aggressively as possible but it's going to take a while. Don't think I can take on any entrepreneurial risk with that big an albatross around my neck. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3898531&forum_id=2#35446200) |
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Date: February 20th, 2018 3:17 PM Author: Mischievous location tattoo I paid mine off with some of my buyout money. All I have is a mortgage and utilities/phone now which are covered by passive income.
when I'm at the point that my incidental expenses are also covered by passive income, I will kiss work goodbye and focus my entrepreneurial energy on something else that doesn't need to draw money |
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Date: February 20th, 2018 3:18 PM Author: Mauve macaca thoughts on whether i should re-fi for a longer term (say 10 yrs) and start down the self-employment track sooner or continue to wagecuck until they're paid off (about 2 more years)? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3898531&forum_id=2#35446228) |
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Date: February 20th, 2018 3:21 PM Author: Mischievous location tattoo do a cash flow analysis for your life right now including generous allowances for your incidentals so you're overestimating. if you can sustain 12-18 months of that on savings alone, you can maek it. figure out your niche and business plan.
don't do it if you can't live that long though unless you're prepared to max out credit cards and risk being in a debt hole you can't climb out of |
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Date: February 20th, 2018 3:43 PM Author: Mauve macaca this is rly encouraging stuff. thanks a lot man. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3898531&forum_id=2#35446392) |
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Date: February 20th, 2018 7:48 PM Author: Mischievous location tattoo it's totally doable, pumbro. it's just not easy. and like I said earlier, it's not a panacea for what you hate about wagecucking. it replaces the problems 1:1 with new ones that are different but just as shitty. I actually think TCR is jumping back and forth between the two until you have enough savings and passive income to retire early. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3898531&forum_id=2#35448014) |
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Date: February 26th, 2018 10:08 PM Author: Doobsian property What kind of ventures are you thinking about next? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3898531&forum_id=2#35495229) |
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Date: February 20th, 2018 2:07 PM Author: Hot vivacious church building partner You sound like a bit of a loser but people will work for you if you just have capital and vision. Why dick around in sales? Accountants have a decent enough skill set to do LBOs and balance sheet restructurings into a sale. Hire a small team for evaluations. All you really need is an investor and some deal flow. The only hard part is the investor. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3898531&forum_id=2#35445585) |
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Date: February 20th, 2018 2:10 PM Author: maniacal home psychic i do need an investor, you are right about that.
and thanks for your suggestion but i'm actually looking to get into the software field somehow. more specifically, looking into leveraging AI technologies (machine learning) to solve a very narrow problem in the accounting space. what you proposed doesn't really hold an interest for me. |
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Date: February 20th, 2018 2:34 PM Author: Hot vivacious church building partner Oh ok. Well I described something that you can probably do and you described something you probably can't do. Who is right? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3898531&forum_id=2#35445823) |
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Date: June 25th, 2018 12:33 PM Author: maniacal home psychic tell me more about this idea.
are you referring to like transaction advisory services? i thought those guys did like quality of earnings reports and made sure the #s were legit for due diligence purposes.
what you're describing sounds different |
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Date: February 20th, 2018 2:08 PM Author: free-loading boyish space main people So this is going to cut against conventional xo wisdom, but have you thought about just doing sales? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3898531&forum_id=2#35445599) |
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Date: February 20th, 2018 2:11 PM Author: maniacal home psychic no. i want to be a salesman, but i don't JUST want to be a salesman. as a founder of a company you are not only your firm's chief salesperson, but you also own EQUITY which is what i'm chiefly after. salespeople have no equity, most of the time (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3898531&forum_id=2#35445628) |
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Date: February 20th, 2018 2:09 PM Author: arousing karate international law enforcement agency this was a strong effort. I especially like the first sentence. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3898531&forum_id=2#35445601) |
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Date: February 20th, 2018 2:09 PM Author: grizzly hideous place of business whorehouse Never too late to go to law school (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3898531&forum_id=2#35445605) |
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Date: February 20th, 2018 2:16 PM Author: cheese-eating sweet tailpipe CR if he wants to be certain that his life is over (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3898531&forum_id=2#35445668) |
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Date: February 20th, 2018 2:16 PM Author: Mischievous location tattoo JFC (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3898531&forum_id=2#35445670) |
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Date: February 20th, 2018 2:29 PM Author: maniacal home psychic there is literally nothing that would make this decision sound appealing at this point (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3898531&forum_id=2#35445776) |
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Date: February 20th, 2018 2:24 PM Author: Bat Shit Crazy At-the-ready Trust Fund you are young and life is long and there is time to kill today (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3898531&forum_id=2#35445729) |
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Date: February 20th, 2018 2:29 PM Author: maniacal home psychic thx (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3898531&forum_id=2#35445767) |
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Date: February 20th, 2018 2:33 PM Author: glassy theater stage dog poop I'm convinced this feeling never ends. Maybe when you have kids and a house idk Did the greatest generation EVER have this feeling? Lol at us |
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Date: February 20th, 2018 2:34 PM Author: arousing karate international law enforcement agency cr what percentage of millennial males have this feeling
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Date: February 20th, 2018 2:38 PM Author: maniacal home psychic not many i imagine
most of us are perfectly content refreshing instagram and wagecucking our lives away |
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Date: February 20th, 2018 2:46 PM Author: arousing karate international law enforcement agency I don't think so. Everyone is a wannabe shark tank contestant except without any ideas (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3898531&forum_id=2#35445939) |
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Date: February 20th, 2018 2:51 PM Author: maniacal home psychic thats the worst
when you are entrepreneurial but have no good ideas. ive been there |
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Date: February 20th, 2018 2:52 PM Author: arousing karate international law enforcement agency I don't want to be presumptuous but I fear you might still be there (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3898531&forum_id=2#35446004) |
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Date: February 20th, 2018 2:53 PM Author: maniacal home psychic yea but at least i am focused on an industry
i dont have my thesis statement yet but i am at least trying to focus a significant portion of my time on researching a particular industry. but no, you are right, i dont really have a concrete, well thought-out idea yet. |
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Date: February 20th, 2018 2:37 PM Author: maniacal home psychic how old are you
are you currently a wagecuck? |
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Date: February 20th, 2018 2:52 PM Author: glassy theater stage dog poop 30 Yes, sorta but not really idk |
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Date: February 20th, 2018 2:54 PM Author: maniacal home psychic Yes, sorta but not really idk
lol
im glad i posted this. i had no idea there were other people out there like me. it sucks.
my problem also has been that i get super excited about a business idea for like a month, and then i just lose interest. i'm hoping that i don't lose interest in this one, but i think this one is different.
i feel like that guy ray kroc in "The founder" with michael keaton. the guy went his whole life bouncing from one idea to another, one get rich quick scheme after the next, until he found mcdonald's. and when he found it, he just latched on like a motherfucker. he even said it in the film - you only need to be right once. that's basically my thought process |
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Date: February 20th, 2018 2:56 PM Author: glassy theater stage dog poop Prospect of CRYPTO RICHES came at my life plan like a wrecking ball. I've gotten a taste of financial freedom without wagecucking and I don't know if I can ever go back (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3898531&forum_id=2#35446036) |
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Date: February 20th, 2018 2:57 PM Author: maniacal home psychic oh god man (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3898531&forum_id=2#35446055) |
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Date: February 20th, 2018 2:59 PM Author: glassy theater stage dog poop help (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3898531&forum_id=2#35446085) |
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Date: February 20th, 2018 3:01 PM Author: maniacal home psychic start a business, man
get out of that crypto bullshit. it's hogwash. there's no long term future with that shit.
blockchain, ok that might be a different story. but don't invest in that overhyped currency.
i feel like cryptocurrency bullshit is taken ahold of so many milennials |
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Date: February 20th, 2018 3:15 PM Author: glassy theater stage dog poop lol (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3898531&forum_id=2#35446203) |
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Date: February 20th, 2018 4:19 PM Author: fear-inspiring peach lay LOL. If you're going to start a business, you have to be more open-minded than this, unless your idea of "starting a business" is doing something super established where profits have been driven to ~0.
Utility value for crypto is very low at the moment. But has potential for tremendous long term value. Try to think of how things will look in 3-5 years, not right now. |
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Date: February 20th, 2018 2:38 PM Author: Vibrant Wagecucks Church lol at this thread (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3898531&forum_id=2#35445858) |
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Date: February 20th, 2018 3:02 PM Author: Dull Cerebral Patrolman very little you can fundamentally change about the direction of your life at 31 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3898531&forum_id=2#35446108) |
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Date: February 20th, 2018 4:26 PM Author: Stimulating pozpig kitty he could go to law school and make it much worse (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3898531&forum_id=2#35446656) |
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Date: February 20th, 2018 3:03 PM Author: exhilarant aqua senate Your life is, most likely, more than 1/3 over. Sorry :/ (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3898531&forum_id=2#35446118) |
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Date: February 20th, 2018 7:35 PM Author: Silver market http://schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com/2007/07/subjective-life-span.html (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3898531&forum_id=2#35447938) |
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Date: February 20th, 2018 3:22 PM Author: Silver market SURPRISE!
http://www.xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=3454403&forum_id=2#32096341 |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 2:05 AM Author: Drunken lavender water buffalo wrinkle if you're an accountant why don't you just start your own practice? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3898531&forum_id=2#35450608) |
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Date: March 2nd, 2018 12:25 AM Author: maniacal home psychic thought fills me with a low level sense of dread (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3898531&forum_id=2#35518439) |
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Date: February 22nd, 2018 3:04 PM Author: Citrine native becky interesting that you refer to entrepreneurs as "we" despite the fact that you've been a wagecuck your entire life, have never made any serious moves towards actually starting a business, and in this very thread reject a reasonable suggestion that is within reach of your current skills and experience in favor of a pie-in-the-sky speculative dream that is guaranteed to keep you slaving away in wagecuck land waiting for the time until you're "ready" to put it into action
i suspect this feeling will be with you at 41, 51, and, assuming you don't jump off a bridge before that, 61 |
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Date: March 2nd, 2018 12:24 AM Author: maniacal home psychic lmao
what suggestion was that? some bullshit about balance sheet restructurings? fucking KILL me |
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Date: March 2nd, 2018 12:29 AM Author: duck-like step-uncle's house an entrepreneur once told me that there's room in every market for another entry.
so you don't have to think of something completely novel. just something a little better than the next guy.
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Date: March 2nd, 2018 12:21 PM Author: maniacal home psychic yep (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3898531&forum_id=2#35520504) |