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There is no safe ‘business’ to start today. The cabal wants it all destroyed. And if you build something based on ‘their’ model (say developing a planetary QR code or useless green energy projects) then you run the risk of patriots destroying it as they go for the cabals throat. War is not conducive to stability and businesses require stability to prosper – at least in the long run.
Amen brother… There’s always opportunity in chaos. However, at the same time it’s incredibly difficult to balance today instability and meaningful long-term prosperity.
A politician fertilizer plant.
They produce so much free bullshit
there no way to lose money.
For a minute there I thought you were advocating some kind of sausage grinder as a required capital investment for your fertilizer biz.
I almost went there, but that’s pretty dark, even for me.
“Soylent Green is people!!”
Detective Thorn….
As one Cannibal Chief said to the other Cannibal Chief,
“Your wife makes a great rump roast”
and the other Cannibal Chief says,
“Yes, I know…
I’m really going to miss her….”
How about a business supplying arms, munitions, and foodstuff and medical supplies to opposing sides in a Civil War type situation?
Oh, wait, doggone it, the (((CIA))) has already beat me to that “opportunity”…
Well, better luck next time….
Security business so.
Funeral home/ director
Francis – I disagree re the stability comment. Instability creates small business opportunities at an extremely high rate. When the society is in a state of flux, new opportunities are created in very large numbers. For instance, if supply chains go down, the need for alternatives is instantly created, and can be taken advantage of by those with imagination. Periods of instability is the best time for smart, imaginative, hard-working folks who are willing to accept risk to start a small business. In my opinion.
LLPOH
1) Do you see opportunities developing in Australia?
2) what the hell is going on there now?
3) shouldn’t you consider moving back to the country that afforded you your opportunities?
1) not much
2) not much
3) hell no. Why would I return to a place where it is more dangerous, where the system creates wealth for a select few (Oz median wealth is over 3 times higher than that of the US), where perpetual tax slave status is enshrined in law, wher you pay tax to the US no matter where you live and work on earth, where racial tension is approaching extreme, where the population is 15 times higher than here, where the govt can seize your cash with no warrant if you are driving down the road with it, where you must register for the draft if you are male under threat of imprisonment, etc. Seriously, Oz is a far better place to live. And it isn’t even close. You residents are going to live it when black and brown people are the majority, and it is just around the corner. You will have a steady stream of Kamalas sitting in every elected and appointed position. You do see who will be the next Supreme Court Justice, right? Get used to that shit.
And re your idiotic statement that the US “afforded” me opportunities, it did no such thing. What I accomplished I accomplished in spite of the barriers in front of me, not because opportunities afforded me. A poverty stricken Indian born to illiterate father isn’t afforded many opportunities in life, you fucking dimwit. I owe the US nothing. I paid my way when I was there, I built a business and employed people who paid taxes, I kept manufacturing onshore when I could have offshored.
Why all the vitriol? I know your back story. The system in the America that you succeeded in did allow for your wealth creation. Is that not true?
As far as Australia being a better place, is it not true they are still Covid stupid?
Wip – the question was offensive. The premise was inaccurate.
Is Oz Covid stupid? Yes. More stupid than the US at the moment? Maybe not. Hard to say. Everywhere has been stupid. Just a matter of degree, and the stupid differs place to place.
I dare say, you would be better off here if the Covid stupid doesn’t stop.
I fail to see how the question was offensive. I never said you didn’t earn it. I’m saying, I highly doubt a person could do the same thing in many parts of the world. At least America has/had a system where people can climb.
Just curious, are you typing this
masked, triple jabbed, and duly obedient,
or in one of the numerous OZ “better place” gulags for refusing?
Asking for a a friend there who dare not ask himself
out of fear of ending up in one.
LLPOH – there is a vast difference between “market instability” (a function of capitalism) and political instability. Political instability is not good for legitimate businesses – expect maybe gun shops – and even that is short lived. If it were then 1945 Berlin would have been the epicentre of 20th century commerce (I’m pretty sure it wasn’t).
Respectfully, political instability isn’t the issue you make it out to be. Berlin was wiped out by war, which is a different issue. Political instability offers huge opportunity for people able to navigate the twists and turns. War, not so much, if it is on your doorstep, as you say on closer reading. But the US is not at war, and it is highly unlikely to be, at least not on the US mainland. No one is invading the US. So, the political instability that exists is a huge opportunity for those prepared to seize it. Not that many are so prepared. But some will be.
I think the problem here is that ‘political instability’ exists on a scale. We’re probably not thinking of things on the same point of said scale.
The bureaucratic nightmare of rules and regulations has also gotten way out of control. I told people about this for years, and many have come back and told me later. Yes. I found that out. Trump got rid of a bunch of federal rules. But many times, they are at the state and city level. The libtards have done their best to make the US a socialist shithole for a longtime.
My son is very interested in D.A.O.s… Decentralized Autonomous Organizations.
He’s a software programmer/designer now fascinated with Gamestop and krypto…
Horse training, showing and selling.
A business selling remedies to undo jab damage.
Vax Hax LLC
That’s an easy question: Repairman. With the supply chain crisis only getting worse and the fact that young people can’t even change a light bulb, fixing stuff is a growth industry. Plus, your clients are all fellow citizens and you can require cash payments to stay off the radar.
If you have any mechanical/electrical skills, be a repairman.
Already there,I am a carpenter with unrestricted license and a bunch of lead/osha cert.s(all garbage).I never wanted a big business with crews and such as saw from the crew end the hell bosses go thru.I as getting a bit older feel the one man/one -two day jobs the best/keeps a open life schedule also.I can though if asked to do a larger job decline but have a guy with crew who does solid work as a contact,thus,I never say no directly but give customer a good option,has earned me a lot of smaller gigs.
Funeral home…seriously. With the number of vaxxed out there I see funeral homes as a growth industry.
Places like The Neptune Society will pick up a lot of that business. We could do like the Indians and float the dead down river after the collapse when everyone is good and broke. Traditional funerals will be for monied people only one day.
Me? I want “sky burial” when I go.
I want my friends to get good and drunk, have a good laugh and chop me up with axes to feed to the eagles, hawks, crows…….
Alternatively, I want my corpse precision dropped on Trudy from a few thousand feet.
Sounds like a plan Anon. I really like the part about dropping your parts on Trudy, very creative. Even better to add a ton of horse shit to the payload.
We donated my mom’s body to Science Care for free and received the cremated remains a short time later.
As for a business, Poop on a Politician’s Grave. Make a website where people pay you to arrange with people to crap on a politician’s grave. Homeless, transients, etc. If one were to keep the DNA out of it use cow manure. Or liquify manure and spray politicians in the face by hiring same persons. HF sprayer, gloves. Spray, drop sprayer, and run. Beats the cream pie throwers by far. One could branch out to ex’s and bosses’ graves.
Go a step further and make tent mausoleums so the homeless can live on top of the grave.
Neptune society is a scam, they contacted me after a relative died, all they are is a middleman that will take your dead relative’s body hostage, bulk store it after skin stripping and pulling out any gold teeth, and then charge you a higher fee for cremation than you could have gotten by simply taking charge of it yourself. You CAN negotiate terms with funeral homes or just donate their body for scientific research, then the cremation and ash delivery is free.
There has been a lot of consolidation in the funeral/cemetery business over the last 2 decades, with a few big companies buying out individual operators. Not sure the reason, but might want to think twice before taking the plunge. At the cemetery where our family rests the new big company owner has cut corners and let most things go straight to hell. I’d rather be food for the coyotes.
It is but make sure you put in a human retort (or Two) as well as a pet unit. National rate is about 50% and climbing. Big viewings/funerals are less prevalent. Our pet side is just jamming. And there is always the 24/7/365 thing to deal with.
Up side with cremation is 3 units only add about 250-300K to start up cost!
If you are in any way handy and have intuitive skills,
are honest, prompt, courteous, and clean,
you will be in such demand that you’ll need to hire
help. I was building my latest studio 8 years ago and
people would stop all the time and asked if when I was done,
would I be interested in doing work for them.
(They didn’t know I was the homeowner)
Repairman sounds interesting. Right now I am a self employed computer geek, in the process of retiring. I own a small machining side business. So I have all the tools and skills, except for good welding equipment, but I do know how to weld. The cash payment possibilities are very appealing. Come to think of it, I have already repaired a lot of power tools for customers. Sharpened many tools too.
It’s unfortunate though that so much junk out there is not repairable.
Cash will soon join the dodo bird in the dustbin of history.
If I was young again, I’d skip college and go right into construction of any kind. I am a real estate photographer and I’m telling you, the hispanics are going to OWN the construction industry one day. OWN it. I’d learn everything I could (including construction spanish) and open a business as soon as possible.
I also believe there is a great opportunity to decentralize some industries. We see many companies that are actually only marketing companies. For example, window and blind replacement companies. They simply advertise and then contract the work out. What if there was a website where you could hire the qualified help directly and skip the middle man? I am doing something similar but in the industry of real estate visual marketing.
I worked construction in my younger days, and I got my retirement from a construction company, cement bulk handler was my job. Besides retiring at 55, the added benefit is I can fix, almost anything, and this saves a lot of money in repairs every year. Construction was always a good gig for those that are able and are willing to work long hours when needed.
Same here as far as skipping college and going into construction or mechanical trades. In high-school I thought the the guys going down the manual arts path were wasting their time. Those with any smarts did their apprenticeships, opened their own businesses, and some of them became real estate developers and did far better than I did financially. They were all making good money from the git-go. Some of them have their names on their industrial parks now. Meanwhile, I spend 10 years getting my degree while working a series of low paying, pointless jobs.
Same.
It has been one of the best most useful training I
ever had. The knowledge saved me hundreds of thousands
of dollars doing my own additions, and remodels.
With the internet, no more need for repairmen either.
I just put in a new fuel pump in my Chevy.
Even though I despise the Commies at Google that have made the world a totalitarian shithole. You can find detailed instruction to fix almost anything. I saved a thousand bucks doing a car repair only two weeks ago. I also remodeled houses before selling them, and it all worked out great.
When some of my fence blew down from 100 mph winds, I had it fixed within two days. Most people would have had to wait a week or two for the estimate.
Either being a bookie or drug mule. Maybe both depending on how much travel is required.
Engineering work from home.
Everything by email. I might talk to a customer once a year, usually to say, “Merry Christmas”.
I love it.
Engineering as in mechanical engineering? Or computer engineering/software development? If the former, how can that be done from home?
Structural. Industrial equipment support structures mostly.
Had to laugh at the weekend one, as I’m usually working weekends in the land business. When Monday comes, it’s awshit, here we go again. At least the money is better these days with everyone wanting to get away from the cities. Is it a good business? We only work half days, you know, 12 hours a day…
Half days LOL
Might catch on yet….
Treating for burns and radiation poisoning looks like it has a bright future.
Burns/radiation/bright future,I saw what you did there!
Watch out where those huskies go and don’t you open that canned sunshine.
Homeschool services
I have nothing to do with homeschooling but what about a good curriculum on logic and real history.
Logic curriculum is available from the classics.
Define “real history”! That’s the problem. Nobody knows what is real or true about anything presented as history these days, so instead of “history”, I teach “question everything”. It is a lifelong course.
Become a true counterculturalist:
“Turn on, Tune in, Drop out”
but not with drugs, with truth.
The Red Pill Academy – courses for the newly blindsided and jolted awake.
Wrapping up a 42 year career in electrical contracting. One man shop. Its been a great run but time to bail. If not bad customers…its parasite bldg depts looking to grind you down. All in all I would want a business with minimum contact with people. Like Daniel Plainview…………..”I dont like most people”!
I hear you brother. Many people were shocked by my chosen trade as well…So I
decided to hang it up and become an inspector instead. Pay is decent, and the customers are very friendly for some reason. Even the oddball ones (pun intended) with hyphenated last names, though it usually is the contractor/bank/insurance company that pays. When I first started out, my promo line on my card was…’Save Money, pass the first time! Free technical consultation by phone. Even in the days of flip phones a picture was worth a thousand words.
But going with the current streamlining/efficiency ethos, the cards now simply say ‘Everybody passes. Prices may vary.’ Very strenuous, mostly driving all day. All those free lunches are starting to weigh heavily on me.
Anon,
I was told just the other day that Corelogic is going to make it so all appraisals will be done at your desk. No more going out to the property. They bought a rela estate photography company and I assume they will be taking it countrywide. Having all the photos will make appraisels, and I assume, eventually, inspections. Heard anything about that yet?
Good Lord, I chopped up that comment. Let me correct it.
I was told just the other day that Corelogic is going to make it so all appraisals will be done at your desk. No more going out to the property. They bought a real estate photography company and I assume they will be taking it countrywide. Having all the photos will make appraisals, and I assume, eventually, inspections perfectly easy to do from your desk. Heard anything about that yet?
The problem with desktop appraisals is that if they still want to call it an appraisal, then it must be performed by a licensed appraiser…
https://appraisersforum.com/forums/threads/so-do-you-really-hate-or-fear-desktop-assignments.231615/
I would partner with globohomoschlomo …they provide the pipes and I the crack . Unless the CIA objects. I wouldn’t want to encroach on their turf…six ways to Sunday, bro.
Oligarch.
They sure have nice boats in some really fancy places.
I hear it’s a pretty small club and nearly impossible to get an existing member to nominate you.
I think the Farmer has the correct business plan. You get to work with your kids and consume what you grow.
I been trying to sell that idea to people for so long with so few takers I don’t bother anymore.
But food always has a future and a market. The better you do it, the higher your markup.
Looks like beef is going to be settling into the $20 per pound price for some time to come.
The days of cheap food are over.
Food should never have been cheap. It needs to be valued, and appreciated.
Chasing cheap food has lead to bad outcomes – large corps dominating production, high use of chemicals, etc., importing from bad sources, tens of millions of of cheap laborers to produce it for you that then add little else to society, etc.
And people no longer associate food with the land, with the producer, etc. And cheap food means people do not have any incentive to be producers of their own food. Everyone should grow some of their own food, even in small quantities. A hundred square yards of garden beds can produce enormous amounts of food. We grow food every season, year around, and I believe everyone should. Even a little herb garden, if nothing else, should be in everyone’s garden or windowsill.
Society has lost touch with what it means to be human. Part of being human means to personally source at least some of your own food.
Look at you, the neo-agrarian.
Put a smile on my face to hear you say that, and you’re absolutely right. Feeding yourself should be everyone’s first priority. You’re dependent otherwise.
A generation or two ago people made food out of stuff that gets thrown out nowadays. I miss my grandmother’s watermelon pickles. She grew a lot in her backyard garden.
That’s why hunting is so much more valuable than just the food
you procure for yourself. Stalking, outwitting, killing, butchering,
and preserving your own sustenance is what we are, what connects
us with the infinite. Meat doesn’t just show up everyday clean and
nice wrapped in plastic everyday by magic. Killing your own meal is
humbling, and it engenders respect for everything natural around you.
Thanks HSF. I had to look up neo-agrarian! I admire what you do.
Big chief speak much truth.
Food here is not ‘cheap’. And a large % of it is produced locally. It’s worth buying it straight from the producer. It’s more secure in the long run and besides, it’s better for you.
I’m trying on a much smaller scale. Already have several kinds of lettuce, spinach, kale and sweet pea plants up and growing in my bed. We are still eating frozen veggies from last year and I should be harvesting fresh in a few weeks.
When does your syrup season start. It has got to be getting close.
I am sure that he is all done tapping the maples. Sap of our single maple tree in our yard has been flowing for a few weeks now.
Some people just have growing stuff in their blood. I always loved it. I was a city boy that got to see the farm. My mom took us to our uncle’s farm in northern Wisconsin, and I loved the freedom and independence of the farmers. I was also very impressed with how knowledgeable they were. That’s why I probably moved from Chicago to Alaska when I was 21.
But TPTB do all they can to regulate the small farmer/rancher out of any opportunity to sell anything at a profit and make money legally. When TSHTF, it would be wonderful if the Useful Idiots realized this and rebelled against the Politicians they elected and their regulators, so the small farmers/ranchers can legally provide Americans with about 70% of the food Americans need to eat to survive. Recall that Russians were starving when relying on Big Ag until their Oligarchs allowed their small farmers to plant one acre and sell the produce as Capitalist. America’s small farmers/ranchers suffer under a Big government-Big AgSystem much like the old Soviet Communist did.
I love my garden and get quite a bit out of it for being a city garden. We just finished our carrots, and I still have a few potatoes left. Being in Alaska, mostly everyone fills the freezer with fresh red and silver Salmon. From July to October 30th, I harvest something everyday. blueberries, raspberries, salmonberries, Boletes, and shaggy mane mushrooms, and I also have apple trees. Nothing beats harvesting good nutritious food. If I left Alaska, it would definitely be for a farmstead.
Monkey business … there’s always time and money and a place for serious, high-quality monkey business …
In the alternative, I’d go with a ‘mind your own business’ business … there’s an enormous place for that these days …
😉
I was a stone sculptor for a little over 10 years in Toronto in the 90s. I was in my 30s. It was a great life but not such a great living. I did love it until, eventually, the business of art took over and I was reduced to making beautiful things for rich people. It wasn’t the client but the need to make something to sell that would sell instead of making what I wanted. Taking the call from some corporate gift gallery for 20 pieces by Wednesday is not in the artist handbook. It was a valiant effort to do both and try to find some kind of balance. The costs overran a dream and the rents for studio and home had to be paid. Until they didn’t. I still do it for the love of it but I wouldn’t try to pay all the bills with it.
I have since done a few other jobs I’ve enjoyed but my second most glorious time was building a small farm using primarily Permaculture teachings and see it grow in Uruguay. It felt like paradise to wake to the best sunrises and the emerald green parrots exploding with the harshest squawk that contradicts their physical feather beauty. Really abrasive sort of stuff. I also enjoy hanging out with chickens, so there. It felt almost as good in the rain and 60 mph winter winds and taking care of the small critters (goats, rabbits, and a pig). Farm folk are the best and my neighbors were good people who were there to help but not butt in. I’d like to do that again and I’m looking forward to finding a small place in southern Ontario now that I’m 60. I will never have a barn as beautiful as the one I saw of Hardscrabble’s but I bet we both die happy.
Cheers
The art business is not for the faint of heart.
You either are rolling in money or near broke.
And it see-saws like that all the time.
Most artists aren’t good business people.
As a dear artist friend said, “Artists are funny,
you sell a $1000 painting and then buy $1200
golf clubs.”
Either a riot agitator or a dem lawyer getting low lifes big paydays!
A lot of competition in the lawyer business. Soreass is always looking for more “community agitators”. Decent salary, paid travel and bail provided.
Food related cuz people always gotta eat.
With the current level of taxes and fees and regulations?
Nothing.
Gender Reparative and Conversion Therapy.
Taxicab medallion broker in NYC w/10% commissions-all done remotely from a beachfront property in Florida.
Farming and it’s not would start, but rather have started. All effort globally will soon be on 3 things, food, energy, and housing. I built 2 e-bikes, planted 1/3 an acre which can yield 3 crops a year, not enough to feed us all year, but it does help, and paid off the house, in fact no debt. Have lots of resources. Dumping cash as fast as I can now as well. My money lost 10 % of its net worth against gasoline in just the last 36 hours. Half its value in a week against dog food and sausage. I expect food to triple this year from where it is today. Gird yer loins. It’s the old ways from here on out for me and mine.
btw I’m not against cannibalism either as long as they are un- vaxxed. ain’t eaten that shit.
Food delivery. Expensive grass-fed beef including organs. Contract with farmers, market and sell their products for them. Just your tips from deliveries to appreciative customers would probably cover your costs. Cash businesses are nice . . . Add products as you go that the people want, eg. chocolate, eggs, flowers, raw milk, artesian water, and even prepared food. On delivery day, the customer needs to put out a cooler. Endless opportunities ala Amazon, but much more specialized. Sticky, loyal customers who trust you with their food, so once you are established no one likely able to steal your customers. Massive market opportunity.
I have actually considered a consulting business where go through the medical literature in a targeted fashion for a patient, will present the pros and cons of each approach based on the best evidence to the patient and then leave it up to the patient to decide what to do. It would not involve actual treatment. It would be like a financial advisor that does not get paid a commission but rather a flat rate. If patient has to go to the hospital, I would be present for the discussions with the treating physician and could prevent unwanted therapies or explain the medical jargon to the patient as a personal advocate.
The problem with this is twofold:
1) “Best evidence” is horseshit, since none of the medical literature can be trusted.
2) It would likely be considered to be “practicing medicine without a license”, because even just giving medical advice fulfills that criterion. On a related note, I do not understand how every teacher, school superintendent and politician is not guilty of the crime of “practicing medicine without a license” in the last 2 years, given the medical advice regarding medical devices (masks) and treatments (vaccines).
“I do not understand how every teacher, school superintendent and politician is not guilty of the crime of “practicing medicine without a license” in the last 2 years, given the medical advice regarding medical devices (masks) and treatments (vaccines).”
I have had this thought also, several times. Obviously laws don’t apply to the government.
Let’s crowdsource a TBP book.
The working title is “Consequence Free: How Two Generations of Western ‘Elites’ have messed up the world, and thus far, escaped punishment.”
The book will write itself. The biggest problem would be whittling down the list to just the most culpable people who have led us to this point.
Our target audience is anyone on the right of the political center in America, as well as vaccine injured and their loved ones.
It will be a perennial best-seller. The royalties can go to charity and to run this website.
Auctioneer. Between all the foreclosed homes and confiscated property that will be sold off in the near future plus estate sales from dead vaxx takers I think there will be a boom in the auction business.
So, very few serious responses. This thread could have been useful to some folks.
I would recommend a business where you do not need employees. If you have employees you have headaches and responsibilities and risk you do not need. Avoid them like the plague. If you have employees, that you pay out of your own pocket, I guarantee you will not like the experience.
Avoid businesses where you have to wait for your invoices to be paid. That will suck, and dramatically increases your start up costs and risk. Bad debts and delayed cashflow kill a very high percentage of small businesses. A great many profitable businesses go broke because of cashflow issues.
So, things like a few have mentioned above: repairman, high end gardener/landscaper, buy/sell goods, carpenter/electrician/plumber/bricklayer, online sales, gunsmith, tutor, small engine refurbishment (great buy/sell opportunity there as well), pool servicing, hvac, etc.
Farming, as per HSF, is a lifestyle choice, and can be self-supporting. There are start up costs to consider, as well as significant delays in getting cashflow moving. The cashflow issue is similar to having a company where you don’t get your invoices paid until months down the line. HSF has diversified well, which is very smart.
Re construction, which was suggested by others – it is very easy to go broke in construction, and you have to deal with enormous amounts of red tape. Caveat emptor for sure if anyone is considering construction.
Anyone, imo, who would start a business without the express intent to build a war chest first and foremost is doing it wrong. IMO.
LLPOH, my setup is almost exactly as you suggest. No employees, no debt and no unpaid invoices.
As far as construction you can run your business in a few ways…1/2 upfront, loans, liens to protect yourself, pay in advance or at least per milestone. Escrow.
I knew a guy who, decades ago, worked construction by day and bought and sold homes he and his family lived in and rehabbed until he got to the point he could finally keep one debt free. He borrowed to start building homes. In the 90s he lost big time. He had 7 homes under construction. All of them were 4-sided brick Mcmansions. I lost track of him long ago but I have no doubt he picked his ass up and recovered just fine.
Wip – the issues re construction are too many to cover here. It is a minefield. What happened to the guy you mention is more the norm than the exception. Tradesmen often go out and set up their own companies. The majority fail. The red tape, the sourcing issues, the cashflow all pay a part.
You are covering yourself well – no debt, employees, and very predictable cashflow are excellent positions for a small business to be in. It eliminates the major downside risk, and really the issue is just keeping sales up and staying profitable. Good job.
The pitfalls are why I say, a business owner should expect to eat ramen and mac&cheese until they have built a war chest. You need to be able to finance yourself and possibly others. You must build your profit into each payment.
I have had an Ebay store for years, and some years I do great. I operate it solo and as more or less a hobby. It goes great with retirement. When silver spiked in 2020, I sold 2/3 of my inventory. The premium on silver also spiked, so it has been very hard to replenish the store. I always had a good time doing it.
Start a business, create wealth, have it confiscated, used to buy weapons to kill women and children at the top of lists for crimes, no i’ll have no part of it…
So, what, you don’t pay any tax now? What a load of shit.
I don’t create enough wealth, and live as an illegal alien in my own country, spose you don’t mind blowing up women and children with your tax dollars tho ? seems most people don’t mind that. To me it would be like helping the Nazi’s or Soviets, some of us have to be Dissidents, many will bitch and complain about the circumstance, but few will put there money where there mouth is and suck it up. Going along to get along changes nothing, they will use the tax dollars to f you over.
Don’t get me wrong, there was a time i was willing to put effort into acquiring wealth, working like a slave in the hot summer sun and saving the bounty only to find my tax bill was the amount i had saved, so it would be used to kill women and children and screw over and enslave the planet. Yeah i woke up.
Prying the gold out of your dead relatives worked for one noteworthy individual.
coffin maker
Just ask yourself and honestly answer: Am I willing to do whatever needs being done whenever it needs done? If not, or if the answer’s in any way conditional do not proceed to any of the thousand subsequent questions that will come up. Speaking from a brief 35 years in business.
Most people are not suited to run a business, not the least reason is much as you have said. They do not understand all that is required, nor do they have the skills or personal inclination to do all that is required, when it is required. Yours is indeed a good question to ask, and was astutely pointed out. Most will not be able to answer it honestly as they have no frame of reference.
Llpoh- Left you a message in the thug thread. (By way of Unc)
BL – you have always been a smart guy, despite the occasional differences we have had. Unc too. Thanks for clueing me in.
I would start a monkey business! The government would be my model!
small/large rifle and pistol primers manufacturing.
96
This is, perhaps, the correct number to drop this here, baiting Mr. Thistle whilst I work on my own “real” comment so as to pre-empt the Centurial Award for this post, stealing it for those of us who duly deserve its prestige and honor, beloved by our old friend and fallen comrade El Coyote, more commonly E.C.
’tis on you now.
***100***
If I were going to create a business today, it would be in the building and structural integrity for underground homes with Solarized Rooms aboveground, to help folks survive in the coming Nuclear Winters.
The old 101…
… Okay, for those who know my “story”, this should make you laugh. I took Rob in NS advice about postimages after I lost access to my photobucket account featured in that article from a long time ago…
(For some reason or another, my photos got looked at enough to tell the folks at Photobucket they weren’t getting their share of nothing. I cannot access my photos unless I agree to pay them $9.99 a month to share my own photos from the “free” account they granted me six years ago.)
So, I opened a postimage account and they’ve recently assured me that while there is no limit to the amount of storage they offer for “free” service, their premium account offers so many services a photo connoisseur like me would like, blah, blah, blah.
Someday somebody will make a lot of money who can strip car engines back to basics and make them run without their computer chips.
Go to Cuba and learn from the masters in their communist utopia.
Every car there is 70 years old.
Soylent Chow or Soylent Orange.
Fuck it.
ZFG, out.
In 2012, after having been slacking and slumming for years in the Restaurant industry, I was hired as an mechanical engineer for a project outfitting a small number of highly-specialized railcars with a custom monitoring system. This company was a rail GPS tracking company named Lat-Lon.
Basically, the project involved making sure these cars do not derail and if they do, capturing all the data leading up to the derailment, even in catastrophic impact, fire, water or oil submersion, or all three at once. Yes, I know getting all three at once is unlikely, but you know engineers.
Anyway, the company I worked for was sold in 2014, with the sale not being finalized until 2018. Anyway, during those four years, I just designed some other stuff for the company and tried to make myself useful enough not to get rid of. Anyway, in 2018, the system we had designed became obsolete, so Lat-Lon was asked to design a 2nd generation. This took almost 2 full years. However, in 2019, the company that had bought Lat-Lon, was itself purchased and the new company wanted nothing to do with our project–high PR risk and very low volume.
So in November of that year, I teamed up with one of the founders of Lat-Lon and the electrical engineer who had designed the first generation, and at great personal risk approached my bosses-boss to offer to buy the project. Ultimately, after a few tense months we were successful and now we run our own company– 3C Telemetry.
LLPOH will be happy to know that we have no employees. Just the three of us. Since there is little mechanical design to do, I am primarily occupied as a production tech. And it’s fantastic.
Probably the real answer to what I am most proud of….although I do make fine sandwiches.
Been in environmental services since Mar 89. Petroleum tank removal, mold, asbestos.
Started up a small company on ’08 that handled bank owned properties – winterization, lock change outs, yard maintenance, etc. Sold it in late ’12.
Will get back into that again, starting next month. Different geographic area from the last one.