The Official 2015 2nd Gen Ram OT Thread
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From: Meeker, CO
9/11 almost screwed up my gig, too. I went more than three months with just some recurring income and no software projects. Not a one of my clients did any business at all with the DoD or any business renting space in the WTC and so were totally unaffected by those buildings being damaged or destroyed. Most of them had heard my speech already when they pinched the purse strings, despite their not being publicly traded or VC-funded, after the news announced the bursting of the dot-com bubble.
The fun thing about being in business is learning just how fragile and irrational our entire society truly is. I sometimes wonder how we've gone this long without collapsing into a state of liberty. Er, uh, anarchy.
The fun thing about being in business is learning just how fragile and irrational our entire society truly is. I sometimes wonder how we've gone this long without collapsing into a state of liberty. Er, uh, anarchy.
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When I had my body shop it was about three blocks from my house but, through the winter I was almost always there instead of home.
I worked for a roofing company based in Minneapolis and my house was 125 miles away in Wisconsin. There were a bunch of us from Wisconsin working there and we would get an apartment through the summer.
Since I did not rely on my shop for my yearly income it really didn't matter if I made any money doing my thing there which was buying repairable wrecks and fixing them.
I heated the shop with wood so I liked to hang around there and make sure the fire didn't go out. A lot of the time I'd be working on a car and just fall asleep on the creeper. Eventually I walled of part of the shop and put a full bath in part of it and a bed in the other part.
I even had a stove, fridge, washer and dryer and a television,... all the comforts of home.
I worked for a roofing company based in Minneapolis and my house was 125 miles away in Wisconsin. There were a bunch of us from Wisconsin working there and we would get an apartment through the summer.
Since I did not rely on my shop for my yearly income it really didn't matter if I made any money doing my thing there which was buying repairable wrecks and fixing them.
I heated the shop with wood so I liked to hang around there and make sure the fire didn't go out. A lot of the time I'd be working on a car and just fall asleep on the creeper. Eventually I walled of part of the shop and put a full bath in part of it and a bed in the other part.
I even had a stove, fridge, washer and dryer and a television,... all the comforts of home.
