Truth Detector (01-23-2019)
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Truth Detector (01-23-2019)
"When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."
A lie doesn't become the truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good just because it is accepted by a majority.
Author: Booker T. Washington
"When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."
A lie doesn't become the truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good just because it is accepted by a majority.
Author: Booker T. Washington
Truth Detector (01-24-2019)
Irish Exit (01-23-2019)
Starting any business is a bitch. My first time around was an economic and emotional disaster that lasted 6.5 yrs. I'd never wish what I went thru on anybody.
A veterinarian opened next door to me and lasted about 8 months then went bankrupt.
LOL my "business" still isn't really a business in the sense that I could turn it into some equity. It's just me doing work for people who either hear about me or see my van. LOL I'm both ashamed and proud. I'm ashamed because I'm sure I could expand and hire help and grow a real business, but I'm also proud that I don't need to do that. I'm able to operate a high end operation without a single ounce of help. I might be stifling my overall revenues, but not my net profits. My secret?: My time is worth nothing to me unless I'm making money so I do not get upset at having to do things and not get paid such as bookwork, taxes, estimates, or anything work related that doesn't pay like getting materials and fixing machines. Now all of those things become expenses once I move to the next level and it's more than I can cover alone. I'm almost there with demand despite zero advetising, but my strategy is to raise the prices and remain less busy. It's working. This mutherfucker gettin paid and putting in 30 hour weeks LOL
I was pretty lucky with my first business. Still going and revenue growing every year. It takes a little getting used to paying yourself last instead of first though. I was lucky in that someone else had the same kind of business in the same location for 20 years before me. When they died in an accident, I bought the building but not the business, and started up fresh. I basically got the customers for free without taking on any of the liabilities/obligations of the prior business
tinfoil (01-23-2019), Truth Detector (01-24-2019)
There are many others, but I stumbled onto a Newspaper Report that talks about the problems with the revitalization of Santa Fe.
It takes all of two minutes to read in it's entirety!
https://www.abqjournal.com/657062/headline-407.html
Wow, well let me start by saying minimum wage jobs were not supposed to be career jobs rather jobs for high school kids or college kids. Let me further state that if you want to live in a high rent area get a high rent job. You want better pay, learn a skill, get an apprenticeship. No one is stopping them from doing that, sure it will take hard work, but as someone who started with his company 30 yrs ago yesterday, it can be done. Problem is everybody expects great pay to start, and the company car, work hard earn your way up.
Truth Detector (01-24-2019)
"When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."
A lie doesn't become the truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good just because it is accepted by a majority.
Author: Booker T. Washington
I guess it depends on where you live. I write workers comp a check once a year and once every 3 years they do an audit to verify current pay rates, number of employees, etc, but it is self reported so it takes like 10 minutes. Payroll is a bit of a pain in the ass even with a payroll service because unlike everything else, come tax time you have to deconstruct the totals and insert them in different places in your returns. It is the only thing the IRS goes through with a fine toothed comb. One year we screwed up and didn't zero out the payroll account because the bookkeeper had me make the deposit for the january payroll service fee in December. The next year when we zeroed it out, the IRS had a hissy fit because the carry over from the prior year was used to cover part of the payroll that year which then required a shit ton of documentation and explanation as to why the totals didn't match.
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