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MAJ USA RET
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Hey Martini
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3/5/2010 9:32:13 AM
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Is it not amazing how a simple discussion of issues and resolutions is attacked by liberals with invective?
When I owned my own small business (engineering), we paid our employees FIRST. In the beginning, that meant some months of NO pay for my partner or me. Because we had mortgages, and he had children in school, this drained life savings invested in our business. His wife was an accountant and kept the books for free. That was a good thing as the taxes and insurance were complicated. We did all of the other filings.
It is amazing how exhilarating it is to take such a risk… spend money faster than you saved it… hire those first new employees… train them… see them productive and happy. Then you begin to turn the corner and start paying yourselves! We had to buy new equipment… and services from other businesses. Big contracts (BellSouth, CSX railroad, Ducks Unlimited, City of Knoxville, etc.) started coming in… some based on reputation alone!
Then, my partner got ill. He had to quit working at an early age… debilitated by a disease from out of nowhere. I finished ALL of our outstanding contracts and split the profits with him. I have never looked back… whether I profited or lost money… it was worth the experience. (I still have the equipment we bought.)
But, I remember the crushed look on Chris’ face when I told him we were done. I had trained him. He’s still up there in Tennessee working for some surveyor.
Oh… don’t remember being greedy.
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