LSUShock

This is a good one. 2017. That was a super weird game. It's like Auburn's engine completely stalled.

I was so pissed after UT 2010 I didn't go on my trip to the UF 2010 game. Then I was so pissed after that game despite the win. That 2010 year was Les' coming out party as a moron. Somehow still went 11-2. That team won in spite of the ball coach.

Him and JD5 won us the Bama game in 2022.

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I went from being broke and being in debt with student loans to making seven figures a year and being able to retire in my 30s. Not all roses, though. Many days where I want to say frick everything and move to a small, remote island. Also, the business will own you. It's just the nature of the beast.

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The business already owns me as a founding employee. I just do it for someone else. You don't take a business from $0 - $25M revenue as the lead hunter (lead as in 70% responsible for every dollar in) without being all consumed. Hence the underpaid comment.

FatBastard and Squatch, very little overhead on the consulting side. I'm an expense item to the clients for a short amount of time. Very quickly they'll discover savings and expertise they don't currently have. I know this because I do this already as their vendor. I'm just offering the service now. Won't be doing it on the purely consulting side.

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Also, are your skills portable or do you need a big back office, contracts, legal, etc?

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Portable. All institutional knowledge. I was the customer before I was on the vendor side. Then really succeeded as a vendor and sales person. My book has followed me once. Many customers said then, "we don't care who's name is on the invoice, we care who answers the phone when we have a problem".

I wouldn't start the same business, but rather consult. Either take hourly or retainer based clients. Only need 6-8 steady clients to be where I'm at now. Could layer some add ons to probably double that in 18-24 months depending on how much I wanted to work. There's some avenues to parter with Buying Groups, PE offices, etc. where you can add opportunities pretty quickly.

There's a lot of people who know how to navigate domestic transport. There's very few with the breadth I have to navigate the global landscape.

I feel like I'm in that stage of life where for me to get where I would like to go financially, I need to go off on my own. Mid 30's. 10 years very specific/niche industry experience. Worked at a Fortune 50 and left to join an organization as a founding sales person that grew from $0 - $25m revenue in 4 years. I'd argue there's no more than 5% of people globally who are as much of a subject matter expert in this than I am with lots of low hanging fruit in the SMB market.

Curious for those of you who left roles, specially sales or sales leadership roles, to go solo, what your experience was like. Good or bad.

What made you jump?

How long to pass where you were as an employee?

Advice / Regrets / Stories.

Not trying to build anything scalabe here. No interest to scale beyond myself and possibly 1 admin/support person.

Hit me.

I live in Kansas, so it's a bit easier of a trek, but I've taken my son to each of the last 2 games vs UF and vs CCU.

It's as memorable of 2 days as we have together. Hope there's many more. I like the every other year trend.

It’s far from a cheap trip. There’s 4 good and proud schools left. I’m sure you’ll see a good showing from whoever is represented this weekend.

I was gifted a parking pass for a game last year. Wow, absolute game changer. Worth every penny. I'll be buying one for the games I go to this year.

This is fitting for UT. All bark, no bite.

I'm aware these are all very different ways of traveling, but what say the Travel Board?

I work remotely. Every year about this time when the weather gets nice, I have the urge to drop coin on a Class C or 5th wheel and travel across the US. Sounds like a much better idea in my head than reality. Especially with young kids and all their activities.

For those of you who travel this way, what is your rig? Any pictures?

When did you get into this? Pros/Cons?

I'd love to hear more about this from those who do it.

Or the guys is super average and every NFL GM is a lot smarter then the Nuss sunshine pumpers.

He’s about to be a very rich man via the Chase Daniels patch. Make a lot of money to be a serviceable backup.