Someone Told Me The Other Day...



regardless of age group or era, entrepreneurs will always understand one another. Have a conversation with an 80 year old man who founded a business a while back and he probably caught the same flak as everyone else in this thread. It's the same deal, new era. Especially since this is something not everyone understands right now.

Can you imagine the shit Henry Ford got? Look at Nikola Tesla, too.

On top of that, I do kind of see where some of this comes from, because I look at the USA losing manufacturing jobs day in and day out, and it's depressing, because not everyone is cut out to start a business, be a programmer, etc. Some people are damn good machinists, foundry workers, forge workers, etc etc. We're now a service economy, and we're dangerously reliant on China and India for our manufacturing.

They see you as "lazy", because to them, spending time on the computer at home is relaxing, not work. They don't realize you're working into the wee hours of the night on something that could make or break your livelihood. They don't know that some of you are working on 6 things at once, one on each monitor, while you have a monitor off to the side to do your stock trading.

Lack of understanding causes all of this. So know what? Bring it down to levels they understand. Not want to do that, or it doesn't work? Then do this:

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Who really cares what people think anymore, showing your weath just brings on unwelcomed eyes. And keeping up with the jones'es is what caused this massive financial meltdown in the first place. I love blending into the backround 99% of the time, there is alot to be said about people not knowing whats in you wallet
 
FUCK that. Your girlfriend's mom actually says you should get a job and buy her a better car? Run dude, fucking run. On your way by, tell Pops to mind his own fucking business and provide for his daughter.
 
The other day I got in touch with some old friends. They were asking about what I've been doing job wise and I tried to briefly describe the process of affiliate sales. They just go "kinda sounds like a scam" and laugh. But that's good actually. Those are exactly the internet users we want online, who will buy stuff but would never get into that dirty process of actually being the ones to make money from it.
 
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"Real jobs are for people who are too lazy and don't have the balls to work for themselves"

Best quote I have read in a long time and it is so fking true.

When I had a job, whenever AM not going well, I always had the thought of "Well, I got a job to fall back on"

No more lazy and ball less mentality after I quit my job.
 
True True True

evelynds said:
Analyze this as deep as possible because it's honestly the only solution;

Acquire assets that shut people up.
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Absolutely true..happened to me.. I acquired some land.. and now they are bit silent ( also thinking what i do..????)

Sam
 
b_sun said:
FUCK that. Your girlfriend's mom actually says you should get a job and buy her a better car? Run dude, fucking run. On your way by, tell Pops to mind his own fucking business and provide for his daughter.
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The daughter is old enough to buy her own car. My parents never bought me things like that.

Her mom thinks the boyfriend should buy her a car? Fuck THAT (unless she's married to the guy).
 
BlueYonder said:
The daughter is old enough to buy her own car. My parents never bought me things like that.

Her mom thinks the boyfriend should buy her a car? Fuck THAT (unless she's married to the guy).
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No, fuck THAT. My wife would laugh at me in an emasculating way if I offered to buy her a new car. Her Porsche is much nicer than my old Corolla.

Hell, maybe I should be asking her to buy ME a new car?

Hmm. Must go and think about this.
 
emp said:
Meh..

Although I know a lot of you guys are hard workers..
PLEASE don't fall into the "all entrepreneurs are work gods" / "all 9-5 ers are slackers" trap.

I have met slackers and workers on both sides.

And seriously, I have met a LOT of entrepreneurs (also succesful ones) who put more effort into whining about how long they work than their work.

Try this thing called the 8-hour burn.

Get to the office and fucking BURN for the 8 hours.
No slacking, no procrastinating, only hard work, and peak performance from start to end.

First 4 hours, dive straight in, peak performance from minute 1.
Lunch for one hour. GET OUT! Eat something, relax.
Then repeat for the next 4 hours.

After that, feel free to crash.

Only very few people are able to do that for an extended period of time.

I know people who work 12 or 16 hours and go on about how great they are, still I get more done before lunch than they do in a week.

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QFT - I'm married to the 12 hour guy. I make more in three hours a night than he does in his twelve hour day on more than a few days.

dangregory said:
No, fuck THAT. My wife would laugh at me in an emasculating way if I offered to buy her a new car. Her Porsche is much nicer than my old Corolla.

Hell, maybe I should be asking her to buy ME a new car?

Hmm. Must go and think about this.
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Now that's a woman I can relate to.

I know I'm in the minority here because I have a 9-5 and I make a full-time living freelancing, but not all 9-5s are bad things. And in full disclosure, mine is a 7:30-3:30 thing that has absolutely no down time. I teach high school kiddos and even that job is looked down at times. I've been called "just a teacher" more times than I can count - and I'm certified to count to a pretty high number.

I have lots of explaining to do in certain conversations.

I left consulting with a Big 5 and took a HUGE pay cut to become a teacher eight years ago because I'd teach for free and hated the falseness of the face time and such. My father was most concerned about "wasting" my abilities on being "just a teacher." But he gets it now although he still thinks I should become a principal.

I still teach even though I make more writing for 2-3 hours a night than I do teaching. I do both jobs because I enjoy both and they're intrinsically rewarding. Other teachers are the worst about this one - they find out I work online and want to know why in the world I'm still teaching. It's not so bad now since I work with a lot of other self-motivated teachers in a new school, but it got old in my last job. Jealousy is a bitch, especially when you work with 90% women and make twice as much as they do or their husbands.

Now when I'm asked what I do, I tell people I write the words they read on websites. Most are so surprised that someone actually gets paid to do that they shut up. They seem to think the words magically appear from the mystical world of the internet. LOL And they seem to think they can do it, too. I've tried teaching a few how to write even a basic article - the $5 variety mind you. It's amazing how poorly even some English teachers can write, but I digress...
 
I love this thread. Some of the responses are pure gold. Seems like most of us go through similar shit in our lives.
 
If you want to 'punch back' rather than reason with them, ask them two questions:
- "Who's your Boss?"
- "Who's MY boss?"

Most people don't like having a boss so I've seen this work more often than not.

Thankfully, I have VERY supportive (and smart) friends who are starting to understand what I do and love it. "How's the website goin? When's that new site coming out? Buy any fun domains lately?"... I love when they start to see it, and I know they'll be there for me when I go full-time.
 
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