Even with the worst nightmare, there's someone out there who has it alot worse.

If you ever feel you need to make improvements and advancements, do so because genuinely you want to break your life plateaus. Not because you don't have what others have.

Been reading some replies.


Earlier I quoted something like "successful but not to that extent".



I have a father and mother who own an extremely successful electronic manufacturing firm. I'm not even in their business. My father begged me to join him like 3 yrs ago and I told him, it honestly wasn't for me. I'm not happy sitting in a closed office figuring assets/depreciation calculations while managing every other aspect of the business he expects (Problem with family run, is they want you to do the job of many/all with no immediate returns). I already earned a substantial living off of my own business/s': Real Estate/ Food trucks in medium to large market cities with most of our advertising in local event/ big and large.


It didn't grow fast. My food trucks took about 4 years to start turning a profit, but when they did...whoooooyyeee misc. I had to open a brick and mortar to establish myself in various regions. It's not nationwide (yet), mind you, but I've got 8 solid locations with 2 cold locations opening in the next 3 months. My food truck+restaurant business is starting to take over my time+management of my 7 properties (all owned and paid for thanks to flipping regime I started in 2002). My business hit positive cash flow the last 2 yrs, but with a "steady climb". The introduction of 4 locations the past 6 months (takes 3 to get going) has landed PCF and my rental properties are minimal but still getting me around $7k cash flow as long as no problems (I'm including regular maintenance fees and replacement into this calculation). As an entrepreneur and investor.....I'd say the rental properties depending on your current housing market and saturation would be best to consider......I got real lucky with the food trucks/restaurant.

You should have come out with that in the first post then.

I'm bitter because I got deal a s*it hand in life and I'm a lonely FA fuk and there's nothing I can do about it. But overall I'm fine I guess

Life ain't over till you take your last breath. You're alive, you can start today and make a change. You have a passion we all do, pursue it, exploit it, monetize it; and you will be happy to boot because you're passionate about it.

When you use someone else success as a gauge against your life, you will never ever be happy. Trust me, I have been there done that.

You're miscing right now, nothing says you cant open a tab on investing and just read. Everyone starts somewhere, and starting today is better than never starting at all because you "thought" you couldn't do something.

It won't be easy, as evident by many posters here complaining they "haven't made it". If it was easy we would all be CEO10k/day, a comfortable life is afforded to those who are hungry and want it more than they want to breath.

cliffs?

+1 on the rentals, should have 4 by the end of the year with a net cash flow of about $3k per month
Do it op, sell the cars and buy rentals instead

Hey any tips on how to get started buying rentals? dont you need a 20% downpayment to have positive cash flow otherwise your mortgage will be too high?

another CEO 10k/day fraud that's way too busy to take 3 minutes to back up his story but has 20 minutes to write lengthy replies of why he's so successful.

yes, the cash flow is dependent on the down payment
The yield( return on down payment/down payment) is actually higher on a lower down payment but the risk increases as well as the mortgage payment is higher
Either way, I prefer hard assets that cash flow vs stocks

I do think he is successful. Know the guy on LinkedIn and he's with a legit company

Op any tips on which software companies to work in? So many opportunities in my areas but most of them are start up. Don't really want to join one and then it go out of business a few months later and i am unemployed :/

like Erp/crm solutions, the software you use to organize you business. There's two sales, one is for the business the Enterprise Resource Planning software, that takes care of your business needs such as; inventory, suppliers, project management and a lot more along those lines. Crm would be your customers information, followups, meetings, shipping information contacts basically all the boring stuff you need to run a company.

There's software that lets you access it on an ipad, for example you are working for say a door to door company like Shaw someone legit, you can pull up your application on the ipad, find real time install dates and email it back to you boss right away. all over a secure network. Well that's what I use to sell could do, the company I worked for no one knew or trusted haha.

You sound similar to me at 28 except I didn't blow cash on a Maserati. I advise you dump that asap and start looking for alternate sources of income in addition to your job just to make sure you continue to grow the income. 200 is nice... 300 is better... 400 even better... Etc.

Been reading some replies.


Earlier I quoted something like "successful but not to that extent".



I have a father and mother who own an extremely successful electronic manufacturing firm. I'm not even in their business. My father begged me to join him like 3 yrs ago and I told him, it honestly wasn't for me. I'm not happy sitting in a closed office figuring assets/depreciation calculations while managing every other aspect of the business he expects (Problem with family run, is they want you to do the job of many/all with no immediate returns). I already earned a substantial living off of my own business/s': Real Estate/ Food trucks in medium to large market cities with most of our advertising in local event/ big and large.


It didn't grow fast. My food trucks took about 4 years to start turning a profit, but when they did...whoooooyyeee misc. I had to open a brick and mortar to establish myself in various regions. It's not nationwide (yet), mind you, but I've got 8 solid locations with 2 cold locations opening in the next 3 months. My food truck+restaurant business is starting to take over my time+management of my 7 properties (all owned and paid for thanks to flipping regime I started in 2002). My business hit positive cash flow the last 2 yrs, but with a "steady climb". The introduction of 4 locations the past 6 months (takes 3 to get going) has landed PCF and my rental properties are minimal but still getting me around $7k cash flow as long as no problems (I'm including regular maintenance fees and replacement into this calculation). As an entrepreneur and investor.....I'd say the rental properties depending on your current housing market and saturation would be best to consider......I got real lucky with the food trucks/restaurant.

Hadtodoit seems like a genuinely nice guy

+1 on the rentals, should have 4 by the end of the year with a net cash flow of about $3k per month
Do it op, sell the cars and buy rentals instead

good thread

ur an ass for wanting to delete it

nah


but you should leave it tho

another CEO 10k/day fraud that's way too busy to take 3 minutes to back up his story but has 20 minutes to write lengthy replies of why he's so successful.

Either way, I prefer hard assets that cash flow vs stocks

I do think he is successful. Know the guy on LinkedIn and he's with a legit company

I'm 27.

Going to delete this thread but I created it after reading that "suicide rate" thread. I'm actually hoping a few specific questions get asked. Don't want this public (even though I'm anonymous) so will delete thread at some point.

Going to be a slight brag thread, my only intention is to let you know how I made it. I've been in the "made it" phase and don't feel too much of a need to brag to the misc, mostly a genuine thread. So.. here's my life.

- Grew up poor/poverty/FA, couldn't get girls as a young teen, anxiety, cheated on, broken home, no mentor, everything.
- Very painful childhood, most odds against me. Always said and thought I'd eventually be something.
- Dropped out of high school, tried a weak community college that was basically taking advantage of people (too young and dumb to realize it) failed that also at the very end. First half of my life I failed everything, surprised I made it through life at that point.
- Been a miscer for a looong time, almost 10 years, browse multiple times per week for entertainment.

Around 19 I started working out (right after finding misc) and my face started to mature, I ended up going from not all that good looking to a pretty good looking kid. First time in my life, I started to get attention from girls from it. That changed me a lot but I still had a lot of anger/anxiety/pain and issues in my life. Still.. my looks changing was huge to me because until age 17/18, I was completely FA. More so due to anxiety I had/couldn't approach. Finally... I was pulling and getting a lot. Loved that. Still hard, still made minimum wage.

- At 23/24 I had my lucky break. I had a low/entry level sales job and was very good at it, built a good resume and networked.
- Luckily got a dream job (right place, right time, luck and prepared/ambitious) started at 120k, half salary half commission.
- Over the next 2 years worked my way asking for raises/performing to a full 200k+ income.

Fast forward to current life:

- 27
- Have a house, with a huge quarter acre back yard, 3 bedrooms (just for me) in the most desirable city in my state near all my friends/where we grew up
- Professional career position, salary just about 100k/year, full benefits, commission another 100+ for a total just under $250k/year, which I'm actually hitting this year (first year over 200k income)
- I work from home with no supervision, work however many hours per week I want. Usually around 30
- Travel the country for free, about one 2-4 day trip every 1-2 months. Suit and tie business travel.
- Have a top model Maserati for fun
- Have a nice Cadillac for daily driver
- Hot GF who's successful & loyal (lol I think) and intelligent
- Buy toys whenever, zero debt, well on my way to a million in stocks/savings excluding physical assets
- Will be a full blown millionaire liquid without counting assets

That's basically made it status. Expecting genuine questions to kill your curiosity. Please no questions about what I do, it is a professional software sales position that any ambitious, professional person can get into with a few years/decade of effort.


Cliffs:
- Was a young FA miscer, poor, rough start to life, it sucked
- Now 28 and have most everything I could ask for
- Wanted to make thread to see if anyone wonders how I feel, waiting for questions
- Hope to get the message across that it's not nearly as hard as people think it might be

Similar to my life story, except I wasted a huge chunk of that time in the military, which translates to not making crap, so I am behind you despite being older by a few years - I am at right under 100k and expecting a raise this year which should break me through like a mushroom head through a hymen. I also wasn't as much of a beta in my teens.

I would be surprised if you lived in California btw, I don't know many people in the 120k-200k range that can afford a Maseratti, and it be one of two cars, not if they own/rent their own place. Taxes here are ridiculous and the cost of living is absurd.

I don't live there but would love to. Although my area is nearly as expensive. Again... the trick is buy used lol. Lightly used so resale is high. It has 20k miles on it.

Awesome story brah keep it up, and thanks for serving. People respect that.

Thanks for the motivation brah, I am in a good place career wise and in my space, I can get to 300k/yr plus in a few years, so I am keeping my head down and working up to it.

I am tempted to move to a state with lower/less state taxes among maybe other benefits, but it also has to have nice weather, a booming housing market, plenty of sloots, and decent gyms in the area.

Keep up the good work, it's inspiring!

please dont delete for another couple of hours, i haven't had time to read yet

also this is convincing me not to become a software developer when I could just sell software and improve my social skills that would actually improve my life overall instead of some ******* programming languages

Don't get me wrong... a developer would be awesome. It's not all about money. I wouldn't change your plans based on one thread if your original plan was good. You won't be filthy rich as a developer unless you develop your own stuff, but it's a steady job and definitely has the potential to be a 75, even 100k+ income job once you're senior and market yourself. I'm enjoying my role and position, but not all sales positions are comfortable, it's stressful making your way to the good ones and things can very much go wrong and have rough years. I'm just saying.. a developer is a good job.

another CEO 10k/day fraud that's way too busy to take 3 minutes to back up his story but has 20 minutes to write lengthy replies of why he's so successful.

i agree but it takes a lot for me to wrap my head around basic concepts in programming and i dont have the interest that a lot of software developers do in their work, on top of all that the IN language will eventually change and you will have even more learning to do. I'm just looking for a grind thats suitable for me.

how mad are you little man child?

It's because of posters like op that I still visit this forum.

Repped for all the info brah

i agree but it takes a lot for me to wrap my head around basic concepts in programming and i dont have the interest that a lot of software developers do in their work, on top of all that the IN language will eventually change and you will have even more learning to do. I'm just looking for a grind thats suitable for me.

LMAO what do you know, SoutheastBeast is in this thread as well preaching his vision of what an attainable salary is.


Software sales is goat brah. GOAT.