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Originally Posted by Hehe
I know people who really cannot give a flying fuck about anything and just concentrate on what they love, be it work, f&f or whatever. And that’s a person I consider as the ultimate definition of high value. They might not be all that well off. But they reached a place in life where they just do what they love and don’t need to consider anyone else’s opinion about him/her.
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High value is being content. I'm content with dying alone and just having my friends. It would be nice, but it's not the end of the world. Being able to be generous with my time and money is more important. Ultimately, that's all I need.
Again, I don't see the social media standard of "high value" to be unachievable. It's unrealistic for most, but it's not impossible (for me). It's more the personal relationships (very transactional) and self growth outside of the business that I found I was missing in my early 20s.
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Originally Posted by Hehe
When I was in sales, I hated the job. I was away for more than 1/3 of the year easily and had to do super long hours (ever done back to back trans-pacific flying? Like right after you land kinda b2b). But I grind through it. The pay was good (rent subsidy, employee car and very lucrative incentive if I closed a deal) and I needed it.
Job is also something to make some change about. You said it yourself that you are in robot mode. Why not do a different robot that offers higher stability? The key here, regardless which option was "patience". And this is going to go a long way, which I will add later. Many jobs suck monkey balls the first few years, but once you pass that stage, everything become so easy and simple.
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It's a bit different grinding and being in a shit environment for 60K vs several figures. I don't mind grinding. I just need to get paid decently to grind. I keep saying this but, I miss my early 20s. I went full time into building businesses and as you know yourself, that is a fucking grind. Me and my partners were good at it, but we got burnt by a lot of "good at first, now a nightmare" clients. Then COVID hit and then I bought a place, so my priorities shifted to showing steady income working for someone else for mortgage requirements.
I'm not stranger to the grind. If I could, I would put bookkeeping experience since I was 8. And accounting experience since I was 12. I didn't start client management until 18 due to perception. And I took on my own clients at 20. If I could, I would put dealmaking, PE, and consulting on as well. But it's a bit hard to show that on a resume when it's not a full time job for unnamed company that isn't owned by you
or parents. Hell at 22, my partners and I launched a client onto the TSX.V.
I definitely was working more than 40 hours a week across all these things. And I'm not listing all these things as wow I accomplished so much, I just don't like being told (not anyone necessarily) that I haven't been working hard enough my entire life when it's really I have been slacking in the last 4 years because of circumstances and tbh I just want to see what it's like being on the other side in a 9-5 (it sucks).
Well it sucks on both sides - as a business owner, we take on all the risk. I can make all the pitches put in all the effort and make nothing. But I have and will always pay my people fairly. As an employee, you take the short end of the stick for everything except for no risk cheque every two weeks and most people (not me) get benefits (health/dental/RRSP).
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Originally Posted by Hehe
As my dad would often say, any problem that can be solved with money is never a problem. It's just where to get the money. And my suggestion is, get your shit fucking together instead of making an explanation or justification for it.
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I touched on this above and in prev post. 100% agree. I need find where to get the money and just do it. Circumstances aside, an actionable item that I've gotten from this discussion over the last few days is that I need to get back on the horse and be an entrepreneur again (eventually full time, just not now).