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re: What is the age of the oldest person you know who had to start all over?
Posted on 11/22/15 at 9:36 pm to SlowFlowPro
Posted on 11/22/15 at 9:36 pm to SlowFlowPro
32 is youuungggg brotha..based on your history of posts and apparent work ethic you will be just fine..don't sweat it
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Posted on 11/22/15 at 9:37 pm to OWLFAN86
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wouldn't give it up without a ring ?
No, we had been living together for about six months, just got married in a fever!
Posted on 11/22/15 at 9:38 pm to SlowFlowPro
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no matter what, i don't have a felony conviction on my record"
"no matter what, i have no criminal record"
"no matter what, i have a college degree and a postgraduate degree"
I have two out of three and started over for what I hope is the last time at 43, so far so good, I'll have to work into my 70's but it damn sure beats the way I was living before.
Posted on 11/22/15 at 9:40 pm to SlowFlowPro
Nah. 32 is just long enough to get enough experience needed for something like this. I can not express to you how much happier my life is now that I have less. I still drive a nice vehicle, have a nice home with enough land allowing me to do what I want, but I cut most of the other bullshite out. Only thing dictating my life is my wife and two month old son. We live as much from this land as we can. It's a liberating thing when you cut the cord so to speak 
Posted on 11/22/15 at 9:40 pm to blueridgeTiger
quote:sorry it didn't work out, but the fact that you can still be foolish and in love at 72 is proof you can start over
No, we had been living together for about six months, just got married in a fever!
Posted on 11/22/15 at 9:42 pm to SlowFlowPro
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yo should be able to make some serious $ the next 5-7 years
IDK. Land is hard to come by and too expensive for specs and flips are overpriced by people chasing the market. I am actually on the opposite side of the bubble these days. I will make more if it pops vs riding it though I am working on a few things while it's good with a few guys. I have some ideas vs doing the same ole shite everyone else is doing.
Everyone has abandoned building starter spec homes due to land prices. We are working on that.
Posted on 11/22/15 at 9:42 pm to Theoldgraycoat
I don't have any plans on starting over or taking time off because I want to retire when im 55.
Posted on 11/22/15 at 9:43 pm to OWLFAN86
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married at 72 ? Yea, we eloped to Las Vegas
wouldn't give it up without a ring ?
Posted on 11/22/15 at 9:44 pm to SlowFlowPro
Meant to put half is age, but frick editing, that shite is funny.
Posted on 11/22/15 at 9:51 pm to SlowFlowPro
My dad was an insurance underwriter and damn good at. He had an insane work ethic, would often write more business then the others combined, and would drive all over the state if need be. I remember when I was a kid he commuted from Gretna to BR for a few years.
The problem was, with insurance companies they usually had a policy of last one in/first one gone when reshuffling employees. He was laid off 3 times during my childhood /early adulthood because of this archaic system,the last one being in late 2008 when he was 68. When he'd get laid off, he'd do anything, sell life insurance, sell cars, work as an exterminator so long as he was working everyday when he was between his underwriting jobs. I remember being there when he received a call that he had been given a new underwriting job when he was in his mid 50s and I was around 13/14(my parents married and had kids late in life)... You'd think he had won the lottery by that absolute joy he was portraying.
His personality is that of the "good soldier" and he did an amazing job in his 40s,50s,and early 60s of starting over to provide for us and allow us to go to brother martin. I'm forever grateful to him for his example.
The problem was, with insurance companies they usually had a policy of last one in/first one gone when reshuffling employees. He was laid off 3 times during my childhood /early adulthood because of this archaic system,the last one being in late 2008 when he was 68. When he'd get laid off, he'd do anything, sell life insurance, sell cars, work as an exterminator so long as he was working everyday when he was between his underwriting jobs. I remember being there when he received a call that he had been given a new underwriting job when he was in his mid 50s and I was around 13/14(my parents married and had kids late in life)... You'd think he had won the lottery by that absolute joy he was portraying.
His personality is that of the "good soldier" and he did an amazing job in his 40s,50s,and early 60s of starting over to provide for us and allow us to go to brother martin. I'm forever grateful to him for his example.
This post was edited on 11/22/15 at 9:56 pm
Posted on 11/22/15 at 10:17 pm to aVatiger
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my uncle is doing this right now at 60
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has a couple slampieces twice his age
So your uncle is fricking 120 year olds?
Posted on 11/22/15 at 10:20 pm to tiggerthetooth
Posted on 11/22/15 at 10:27 pm to SlowFlowPro
A good friend is starting over at 60 right now.
He'll make out OK.
He'll make out OK.
Posted on 11/22/15 at 10:28 pm to SlowFlowPro
Colonel Sanders was dead broke when he started KFC in his mid-60's. Died a millionaire around age 81.
Posted on 11/22/15 at 10:32 pm to stout
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I could never have a "real job" so I sort of have no choice but to take the risk I have over the years.
I work a "safe/smart/well-paying/blah..blah..blah" job right now and hate every minute of it. My spirit is designed to work in an entrepreneurial setting which empowers me to wear a lot of hats and constantly be doing something different. I would take half the money I make now in a heartbeat to work on something that is 1) my own and 2) something I'm passionate about. Problem is, I haven't figured out #2 and how to make money off of it.
Posted on 11/22/15 at 10:41 pm to LSUShock
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Problem is, I haven't figured out #2 and how to make money off of it.
It doesn't matter to me what industry I am in thoug I am lucky that I enjoy what I do. I have done different things in a few different industries and realize the thing I am passionate about is the challenge of building a business. The only issue with that is that I get complacent when I feel it's no longer a challenge. I get bored easily and lose focus. It's why I have to keep setting new goals and expanding.
Posted on 11/22/15 at 10:49 pm to stout
Best of luck in wherever the future takes you. That drive to constantly evolve and set challenging new goals is the most common trait behind the successful people I know.
Posted on 11/22/15 at 11:37 pm to LSUShock
Pushing 50 and doing it now.
Was in a decent job and got downsized a year and a half before Katrina. Burned about 5 months of savings till I got another "tie me over" job. A year later Katrina came and that job never reopened.
I had a contractors license and post Katrina started getting shite-tons of work. But my oldest kid nearly died a few times from health complications and the hospital stays and some bad decisions dealt a death blow to that business. Once again blew all my savings as the construction business unraveled.
Got another great job in 2010 and was back on our feet, when they started to go under. It was a startup out of Seattle that just didn't make it.
So the last 2 years have been back on my own again building a business and it might blossom and might fold. Bootstrapping a business with no safety net and tough credit is a very difficult thing.
But somehow we've made it... put kids through school, put food on the table. Have had alot of help from friends and family, but have been able to keep going and sow. Reaping will be a wonderful thing.
Was in a decent job and got downsized a year and a half before Katrina. Burned about 5 months of savings till I got another "tie me over" job. A year later Katrina came and that job never reopened.
I had a contractors license and post Katrina started getting shite-tons of work. But my oldest kid nearly died a few times from health complications and the hospital stays and some bad decisions dealt a death blow to that business. Once again blew all my savings as the construction business unraveled.
Got another great job in 2010 and was back on our feet, when they started to go under. It was a startup out of Seattle that just didn't make it.
So the last 2 years have been back on my own again building a business and it might blossom and might fold. Bootstrapping a business with no safety net and tough credit is a very difficult thing.
But somehow we've made it... put kids through school, put food on the table. Have had alot of help from friends and family, but have been able to keep going and sow. Reaping will be a wonderful thing.
Posted on 11/22/15 at 11:44 pm to Meauxjeaux
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I had a contractors license and post Katrina started getting shite-tons of work. But my oldest kid nearly died a few times from health complications and the hospital stays and some bad decisions dealt a death blow to that business.
I remember when you were dealing with all of that. Knowing some of what you shared with me I will say you are a stronger person than I am. Keep plugging away at it.
Posted on 11/22/15 at 11:45 pm to Meauxjeaux
I kind of suspected it from your posts, and now this confirms it.
You're a winner, and you'll continue to win.
You're a winner, and you'll continue to win.
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