Any business owners here?
- Thread starter Kassen
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Not here. I wish our state did that. Lol. Had to move to a new building tho. New federal regulation dropped mandating separate rooms for compounding hazardous and nonhazardous.
Im a part time pimp. Cept I dont have any hoes.
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Didnt say it had to be a successful business.
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Pimpin aint easy.
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Didnt say it had to be a successful business.
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Pimpin aint easy.
It's doing pretty good. It's nothing but profit for us. And our new location gets more exposure so business is definitely doing better. It's funny, but people actually do come in asking if we sell weed.
I started it up myself in Nov 2014 after I quit the doctor school. My mom helped me a little, but it was mostly me. Even the loan is in my name. There is a ton of regulation that really add up the costs to starting up a pharmacy. And I'm still paying off school on top of that. They also have to do background checks to make sure you're not some terrorist.
Lol no. That's a separate business I co-founded with my best friend. Built and designed big servers for universities and large businesses and even got a few government contracts every now and again. We have servers as far as New York that we created. It's hard business tho. You can't f*** up with these things or else we have to fly the tech back out there and it costs us a lot of money fixing things that should have been right the first time.
Mostly commodity grades like PE and PP and PET. Some engineering grades like Polycarbonate and ABS.
I almost work exclusively with scrap and regrind, not too much into off grade and virgin resin that come straight from all the Major petrochemical co.
Not been on for a bit (nor gaming) because my business is booming. I am the principal (owner) of an auto/home insurance agency. Been doing it for 27 years and slowly working one of my boys into it to take over. Business is booming and while growth leads to more growth and problems it has been a good ride.
Awesome man! That's what my wife does, and she has a makeup/styling business for weddings, formal events and what not.
I find that I'm styling less and less (really only work with clients thursday-saturday) and then I spend the rest of time keeping house, training, and getting us session/editorial work.
Stylists can be so dramatic... It's like herding cats when there's a big event on.
But it can be super fun. Especially weddings!
Is your wife burning out yet? Ive been at (and eventually bought) the same company for 13 years as of last week... Ever since I was 17. I kinda wished I tried different things though. I always wanted to work on a cruise ship.
She's not burnt out yet. She's been doing it for a bit more than 10 years now. She has basically the same schedule as you, occasional Wed. nights and Thurs. to Sat. She tries to work it so that she can spend as much time with our boys as she can so she doesn't get burnt.
The drama is crazy, the stories she comes home with would make soap operas jealous
Kassen, it's too bad you didn't get a store up and running decades ago. Starting around I'd say early 2000s, suppliers really clamped down on sketchy deals. With companies geared more to systems and tracking, all the crazy wheeling and dealing old school account managers fazed out.
Suppliers also clamped down internally. Annual sales meetings aren't as glamorous with half the people getting drunk. Now, it's more professional and if someone gets plastered, its a big no-no, while 20 years ago everyone would laughing their heads off.
But 20 years ago and before that, field reps would be offering big stores all kinds of crazy deals, payouts, TVs, gifts, etc.... Commit to ordering a certain amount of product and you'd get your car trunk filled with perks. It was the wild west of blank cheques and incentives.
As for pharmaceuticals, same thing, but even better.
For people who don't know, as shady as it sounds, back then drug stores would purposely fill their cabinets with which ever drug store offered the best payouts, NOT whichever were the best drugs. So a field rep would literally go through cabinets and if they saw you were stocked with their product more than other manufacturers, you could get annual payouts of $10,000s of dollars.
But you don't see that kind of stuff anymore.
Suppliers also clamped down internally. Annual sales meetings aren't as glamorous with half the people getting drunk. Now, it's more professional and if someone gets plastered, its a big no-no, while 20 years ago everyone would laughing their heads off.
But 20 years ago and before that, field reps would be offering big stores all kinds of crazy deals, payouts, TVs, gifts, etc.... Commit to ordering a certain amount of product and you'd get your car trunk filled with perks. It was the wild west of blank cheques and incentives.
As for pharmaceuticals, same thing, but even better.
For people who don't know, as shady as it sounds, back then drug stores would purposely fill their cabinets with which ever drug store offered the best payouts, NOT whichever were the best drugs. So a field rep would literally go through cabinets and if they saw you were stocked with their product more than other manufacturers, you could get annual payouts of $10,000s of dollars.
But you don't see that kind of stuff anymore.