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Termyn8or -> RE: Company loyalty ? (4/2/2009 9:37:36 AM)
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Good responses, but nothing to really point me in one direction or the other.
The other company is more stable and able financially, of course because I helped make them that way. I am still working on this one. The old company has a nicer and better work environment, but they are strict and very time concious, whereas the current company is more lax. I can smoke, in fact I could probably get away with smoking pot, but I don't.
Being worth my salt at that rate is also a concern, never let it be said that I wasn't worth it. On the other hand I did spend ten years teaching them to research and learn, so I might actually learn a few new tricks there. I did in 07.
Now if you've read "Making opportunity or am I crazy" it all fits in just like the rest of my life. Feast or famine. I think I could sell my idea to Home Depot, but I would not give up my day job so to speak. This is nothing unusual to me, at one time I was offered, on a silver platter so to speak, three different businesses I could've run, and bought with the ex-owner holding the paper, or as a subsidiary. The latter is more like being a GM, but it still would've paid. But then I remember times rooting through the freezer to find this mystery meat so I could have something to eat back when I was out of work and had no credit. Long time ago for sure, but I have a long memory.
Main problem is I don't want to burn the bridges to either company. The way I see it the only way is to do midnight Mondays. I have been off on Monday for so long that Tuesday has actually become Monday, that might work. Actually my ultimate goal has been to get these two companies into a sort of cooperative, and things are going slowly, but they are going in the right direction. Hopefully someday I might be able to make a few bucks as the go between or something of that nature.
Think, as one suggested, more of my long term future, there might be more to this decision than meets the eye. By ten years from now I want to work very little. I see myself as a consultant to both of these companies and possibly a couple more. This would more be consultant, expediter and procurer of materials and technical information. I could probably swing it so I could work from home.
Actually even now I am looking for a worthy trainee/assistant. They are hard to find.
I think I might try the midnight Monday approach. As good as things are going, and as rare as that is these days I think I am going to turn down the $30 an hour and take $25. Just a bit less pressure for performance, easier to carry, and in light of my future goals a sign of goodwill.
Whoever mentioned the future was right. I am getting to the point in my life I am sick of working and would like to get into selling knowledge somehow. I know I'll have to work sometimes to keep my skills sharp, but honestly, my eyesight is going and I am not as efficient as I once was. My days are numbered and I have no plans to retire in the conventional sense. Ever.
And don't worry about the tax situation, that is a subject for another thread. I can handle them people without breaking stride.
Like I said it's a feast or a famine. I got this Home Depot idea, and I think I can sell it, but now with this .......... And the Home Depot thing must happen soon, at least in the form of a proposal, very soon.
I am finally getting over whatever I had. I am sleeping a bit less, the pain is gone, I know I am beating it, despite not going to a doc. In the last week there have been times I actually was not cold, and even had some energy. But then I have a dying Father, and that mess to deal with when the day comes. Sure I'll wind up with a bit of money, but there are so many things, and his death is quite imminent. I guess that's just part of the "feast".
Sometime I wish I could go back in time. I would concern myself with getting the new Boston album, and finding high octane gas for my musclecar. Chicks, more speakers. Things like that. The young just do not know how good they have it. A job offer like this would be all the rage at one time, now it is a dilemma.
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