Comments on: You keep working on your business despite everyone around you telling you it’s a failure and you should just get a real job http://www.donloper.com/you-might-be-an-entrepreneur-if/you-keep-working-on-your-business-despite-everyone-around-you-telling-you-its-a-failure-and-you-should-just-get-a-real-job.html Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:06:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Steve Hansen http://www.donloper.com/you-might-be-an-entrepreneur-if/you-keep-working-on-your-business-despite-everyone-around-you-telling-you-its-a-failure-and-you-should-just-get-a-real-job.html/comment-page-1#comment-42 Steve Hansen Fri, 19 Jan 2007 17:47:40 +0000 http://72.47.194.140/uncategorized/you-keep-working-on-your-business-despite-everyone-around-you-telling-you-its-a-failure-and-you-should-just-get-a-real-job#comment-42 Hello Josh, I can understand where you are at the moment. There is usually a defining moment in every man's life where he has to choose which road to take. Dreams or reality, steady income verses maybe someday, big business verses broke. Before I took over this design company in 1997, I was a stock broker for Smith Barney. I had been in sales for years and in and out of business. Unlike you I had 4 of my 9 children before I was 24 and really had no choice but to put food on the table. When I first started my training as a broker I would be downtown every day from 7:30 to 5:00 learning about the equity markets and then to pick up the slack, I took a job trhowing freight at Smith's from 10:30 PM to 6:30 AM for $13.00/hr. So I was a stock boy in the day with a suit and then a stock boy at night with an apron and knee pads. I recall one night being dead tired, filling the soup aisle and listening to a group called "Rat" on the loud speaker. Needless to say there were moments when i wondered why I was there and then how long would I have to keep it up. I am sure that if you are fortunate enough to have children, you will make a wise choice to provide for your family. Until then, you keep showing up everyday and managing your operation with your intellect and instinct. You should however be so grateful for a great gal who shares your vision and is showing that support of you everyday. Good luck and don't beleive the guy who says you should roll up the business and walk away. That guy is working for someone that is right now trying to figure out how to screw him out of his retirement or lay him off to hire a less expensive college grad. Security comes from writing the rule book yourself. Keep writing! Hello Josh,

I can understand where you are at the moment. There is usually a defining moment in every man’s life where he has to choose which road to take. Dreams or reality, steady income verses maybe someday, big business verses broke.

Before I took over this design company in 1997, I was a stock broker for Smith Barney. I had been in sales for years and in and out of business. Unlike you I had 4 of my 9 children before I was 24 and really had no choice but to put food on the table. When I first started my training as a broker I would be downtown every day from 7:30 to 5:00 learning about the equity markets and then to pick up the slack, I took a job trhowing freight at Smith’s from 10:30 PM to 6:30 AM for $13.00/hr. So I was a stock boy in the day with a suit and then a stock boy at night with an apron and knee pads. I recall one night being dead tired, filling the soup aisle and listening to a group called “Rat” on the loud speaker. Needless to say there were moments when i wondered why I was there and then how long would I have to keep it up.

I am sure that if you are fortunate enough to have children, you will make a wise choice to provide for your family. Until then, you keep showing up everyday and managing your operation with your intellect and instinct. You should however be so grateful for a great gal who shares your vision and is showing that support of you everyday.

Good luck and don’t beleive the guy who says you should roll up the business and walk away. That guy is working for someone that is right now trying to figure out how to screw him out of his retirement or lay him off to hire a less expensive college grad.

Security comes from writing the rule book yourself. Keep writing!

]]> By: David http://www.donloper.com/you-might-be-an-entrepreneur-if/you-keep-working-on-your-business-despite-everyone-around-you-telling-you-its-a-failure-and-you-should-just-get-a-real-job.html/comment-page-1#comment-41 David Fri, 19 Jan 2007 16:47:45 +0000 http://72.47.194.140/uncategorized/you-keep-working-on-your-business-despite-everyone-around-you-telling-you-its-a-failure-and-you-should-just-get-a-real-job#comment-41 That's a tough one. At least you're doing this as a young man. I'm in my mid-forties and with a stay-at-home-wife and six kids and a mortgage I just keep hanging onto that day job and doing a piss-poor job of the thing that really gets me going in the evenings and weekends. I'd like to find funding and am convinced that in six months of running this business full time I would have the cash flow that I need to sustain the business and the family. But I just cannot see clearly enough to get through those six months without the paycheck. I've the sweetest mass customization business concept for a fine crafted outdoors industry product and it basically sits on the shelf (and constantly stuck in my head). That’s a tough one. At least you’re doing this as a young man. I’m in my mid-forties and with a stay-at-home-wife and six kids and a mortgage I just keep hanging onto that day job and doing a piss-poor job of the thing that really gets me going in the evenings and weekends.

I’d like to find funding and am convinced that in six months of running this business full time I would have the cash flow that I need to sustain the business and the family. But I just cannot see clearly enough to get through those six months without the paycheck.

I’ve the sweetest mass customization business concept for a fine crafted outdoors industry product and it basically sits on the shelf (and constantly stuck in my head).

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