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Originally Posted by JoeBandy
You see I have been a bridge painter for 25 years. This down time is driving me crazy. I just don't understand how one can do this all day every day. I am used to running a crew of hardcore blasters and painters. I am very blunt do not mean to be rude.
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Well Bro Joe....it's like this. I've worked my hinder off since I was a young teen and always had a job. I just got out of 5 years of EMS work and I'm not going back...can't really. Crazy long shifts 2 and 3 days at a time...literally 6 months out of the year away from my family dealing with toxic burnt out co-workers working off of little sleep working shootings stabbings people dying on toilets wedged in between the toilet and bathtub...working on people's dead loved ones while they scream and cry and rage over you.
Dead babies...mother's running to your ambulance carrying a limp lifeless husk...collapsing in the ER husband's holding their wives weeping and sobbing.
Abuse...meaningless abuse...dangerous situations involving lack of sleep, bad weather dangerous surrounding dangerous people...all this while I had a suicidal wife at home.
We weren't in church and we we're really messed up.
So when I say I'm living in an impoverished area and can't move for the moment because all hell has rained down on my life and I'm coming up with ways where I can spend every waking moment to be with my family and work out of my home....don't mock that because I know what my family is worth.
I don't have to explain or justify anything to you...I'm not lazy...If I'm making and selling candles and my wife is selling knitted goods online it's because it's the best we can do at the moment.
Besides...candles are a over 3 billion dollar industry in the US alone
And God help you if you want to make a stupid crack about a seeming lack of manliness.
I worked all my life slaving for others and I'm coming up with ways to do things for myself...this is only a stepping stone to other things I want to do.
I'm already working on a patent for a design for something that ought to do well and also a spice rub I want to package and sell but that takes money.
Candles have a very low overhead...I can take salvaged materials and add some other ingredients and make very good candles and make 4 or 5 times what I paid in materials for them and they sell well.
I take those profits and I invest in better materials and tools ao I can make them faster and buy in bulk so overhead is cheaper....it's called God given wisdom dude.
I prayed for God to show me ways to make money and He did.
I'm gonna take those profits and going to start my other ventures which aren't centered around candles.
There are billionaires that got their start selling garbage bags from door to door...even some I've read about that sold out of date calendars.
I asked God to give me some of that vision and wisdom to recognize ways to make money where others didn't.
So keep laughin dude...I'm gonna keep makin my candles while my wife knits and I'm going to enjoy spending every moment I can watching my baby grow up.
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