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  1. PedroG

    6 Figures in 12 Months! How to Free Yourself from Wage Slavery

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    This actually crossed my mind in the past. The last company I worked for ended up hiring only 1 out of 27 people they interviewed. So much wasted time and money on the interview process. We're talking hours of employees' time; employees who get paid six figures. It's so hard for companies to...
  2. PedroG

    Falling back to job - would appreciate your opinions

    MINDSET 
    Get a programming job that gives you the flexibility to work on your own stuff on the side. As an engineer you really get to manage your own time, as long as you don't join a startup or a group that practices full Agile (daily update meetings suck). No reason why you can't make decent money...
  3. PedroG

    Those with a 9-5, how much work do you do? What do you do?

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    I'm a Software Engineer, and have an 19-month old kid. I try to get as much done as I can at night, after he goes to sleep. I've been going to bed around 1:00am. My job is also flexible, so there are times when I can work on my own thing during the day. It's definitely harder with a family, but...
  4. PedroG

    Its just not working :( ..

    MINDSET 
    Anyway you can get another job that gives you more freedom to work on your ideas? That's what I did. I went to a place that isn't exciting at all and got a job that I never would have gone for if my focus were my "career." I don't like the actual work, but I got it because of the...
  5. PedroG

    Give us your thought about vision before starting up.

    Just my opinion, but I would say that the goal is wrong, or maybe it's just the way you worded it. In order to sell a franchise you would already have to have created something valuable. So shouldn't your goal be creating that valuable business? If I'm interested in buying a franchise, what will...
  6. PedroG

    What book are you reading? Right now. Post up!

    NOTABLE! HOT! BOOKS CHAT 
    I'm now reading "Toxic Parents" by Susan Forward, after a recommendation made on this thread. I'm only on page 70 and it's absolutely fantastic! I've always been pretty good at analyzing myself, but this book has actually helped me realize things I didn't know. It's already helped me understand...
  7. PedroG

    Completely wasting my time. Learn from this

    MARKETING RANT 
    Yup, gave up on adsense a long time ago. Create something valuable enough to sell. I feel bad for those people trying to create the next social network. They don't realize how rare it is for something like that to work. You can spend a ton of money trying to support millions of users before...
  8. PedroG

    Gamblers - what's your game?

    OFF-TOPIC 
    I agree completely. I had a great winning streak going once. It's like I couldn't lose. Went to Vegas, won 5k. I was up like 11k for the year (I used to keep track). Then shortly after, I just couldn't win. And it didn't matter that I followed basic strategy perfectly. I've since decided to...
  9. PedroG

    Gamblers - what's your game?

    OFF-TOPIC 
    It's just "Basic Strategy." Other than card counting, this is the strategy that lowers the dealer's odds to the lowest that it can be. Fortunately for the casinos, most people have never bothered to learn it. They just know the very basics, and they take as Fact certain things that are...
  10. PedroG

    Gamblers - what's your game?

    OFF-TOPIC 
    I love Blackjack. If you follow Basic Strategy, I believe the dealer's odds are lowered to 0.5. The problem is that most people who play never take the time to learn basic strategy. Instead they just do whatever they were taught. So when someone like me hits a soft 18 against a dealer's 10, or...
  11. PedroG

    [RANT]: Raise the minimum wage! This is so unfair!

    GOLD! EXECUTION 
    Exactly! When student loans are handed out like candy with the same terms regardless of the major, this is what happens. Kids that just want to make paper planes for a living are shocked that they can't find a job, and then get pissed at society for not giving them what they're entitled to.
  12. PedroG

    [RANT]: Raise the minimum wage! This is so unfair!

    GOLD! EXECUTION 
    What the graphic doesn't show is the amount of provided value each man is responsible for. Supporters of the minimum wage operate under the false premise that a person or group of persons can successfully come up with just the right price where supply meets demand. This is, of course...
  13. PedroG

    What was your biggest business and life lesson in 2014?

    GOLD! MINDSET 
    1) A market is only "saturated" if you have no USP. Don't be afraid of big markets, but make sure your product is WAY better than what is out there. 2) You may have a USP and don't realize it. Make sure you study your potential competitors. How are you better? 3) Who else is making money...
  14. PedroG

    Why do people act like the goal isn't to make money?

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    It's about where your focus is. The money is the end result, but focusing on that takes your mind off the process, which is providing value/solving a problem for people. Money is not action. Money is a thing. When you focus on money, you're not focusing on the process. And it's all about the...
  15. PedroG

    The Most Important Formula in Business

    MINDSET 
    Awesome!
  16. PedroG

    Entering the Point of No Return (PONR) - Welcome to the fastlane

    EXECUTION 
    Anyway you can take the internship and continue to work on your fastlane goals? Unless that job will really prevent you from doing fastlane stuff on your own time, I don't see anything bad about taking it. Nothing wrong with making decent money in the meantime.
  17. PedroG

    Learning to Program is STUPID! (or SMART?!)

    GOLD! HOT! 
    What I would say is start learning to see if you like it or not. If you like it, you'll want to continue learning. If you don't, then stop. I know it sounds simple, but it really is that simple. You don't just learn to program to make a product. You learn and continue learning because you like...
  18. PedroG

    Learning to Program is STUPID! (or SMART?!)

    GOLD! HOT! 
    Those are only good for very generic sites. There are limits to what they can do.
  19. PedroG

    After one year, what next? [trying to build a successful/profitable social network]

    FTE 
    I was in a similar situation with a site I created back in 07. When I finally decided to take it down, I had over 9,000 members. Most of them were not active. They would sign up, look around and never come back. Free users mean nothing. Forget about making money from ads. You need A LOT of...
  20. PedroG

    Fastlane Business Using Wordpress

    WEB/DIGITAL 
    Yes. Check out RestaurantEngine.com. That guy built that whole business with wordpress. He's a web designer, not really a programmer. Check out his post here where he explains a little bit about how he did it: http://casjam.com/restaurant-engine-my-latest-thing/

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