I remember going through all of this with you, not just at Blockbuster but also TWC.
I while I am at AT&T actively, the side business is doing more for me. I sell digital marketing to businesses through my company, Ads Cause Sensation. NCProfits.com It’s reoccurring revenue, which is awesome! You are right, learning marketing is a very large separator because sales is a business teaching you how to make THEIR company money, and becoming their reoccurring revenue generator.
If you take that skillset and apply it to your own business, you make WAY more money because you are the boss, in charge of it all, and outsourcing the work yourself. You’re never REALLY retired, but you do have more time home watching the kids grow and such.
I have enjoyed seeing your hiatus and reading your thoughts and I still have those same thoughts myself. I still enjoy the benefits of working at AT&T and having benefits as the US banking system doesn’t believe in giving business owners credit. When you say you “pay yourself, by yourself”, you usually find rejection (this may also be because I’m a minority, but I don’t know that definitively. But if you work for a major like AT&T AND have profitable businesses, then you get million dollar credit lines… go figure. It’s amazing what I was able to get after 90 days at AT&T with a check I could have used as toilet paper.
As a business owner, the amount I had to pay was staggering after I left TWC and started my computer repair company. Not having benefits was a problem, too. So my wife says, go get a job, so I did. Happy wife, happy life.
It was crazy to work for somebody again, especially somebody who has not built a business before, but they’re going to tell you what needs to be done for success.
Then you have to work at least 35 hours to get medical, dental, etc.
So where is the best place to fall being all over the spectrum like we have without being overworked?
I still have not figured that out yet, but after all of these years, it’s great to see I am still not in it alone. Thank you for the read!
I remember going through all of this with you, not just at Blockbuster but also TWC.
I while I am at AT&T actively, the side business is doing more for me. I sell digital marketing to businesses through my company, Ads Cause Sensation. NCProfits.com It’s reoccurring revenue, which is awesome! You are right, learning marketing is a very large separator because sales is a business teaching you how to make THEIR company money, and becoming their reoccurring revenue generator.
If you take that skillset and apply it to your own business, you make WAY more money because you are the boss, in charge of it all, and outsourcing the work yourself. You’re never REALLY retired, but you do have more time home watching the kids grow and such.
I have enjoyed seeing your hiatus and reading your thoughts and I still have those same thoughts myself. I still enjoy the benefits of working at AT&T and having benefits as the US banking system doesn’t believe in giving business owners credit. When you say you “pay yourself, by yourself”, you usually find rejection (this may also be because I’m a minority, but I don’t know that definitively. But if you work for a major like AT&T AND have profitable businesses, then you get million dollar credit lines… go figure. It’s amazing what I was able to get after 90 days at AT&T with a check I could have used as toilet paper.
As a business owner, the amount I had to pay was staggering after I left TWC and started my computer repair company. Not having benefits was a problem, too. So my wife says, go get a job, so I did. Happy wife, happy life.
It was crazy to work for somebody again, especially somebody who has not built a business before, but they’re going to tell you what needs to be done for success.
Then you have to work at least 35 hours to get medical, dental, etc.
So where is the best place to fall being all over the spectrum like we have without being overworked?
I still have not figured that out yet, but after all of these years, it’s great to see I am still not in it alone. Thank you for the read!
Your old serial coworker,
Julius Price
Hey Julius, thanks for the thoughtful response.
AT&T was a tough place for me, that's one of the worst places I worked.
I've considered owning my own business, but I am trying to work less!