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Lil update for y'all I have told him to kick rocks essentially and said he needed to get customers.<br />
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I held his hand for months and months and he's a grown man, he knows what he needs to do.<br />
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I will never teach people 1-1 and give access to my personal number like this again.<br />
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If I ever do this again it will be set-time frame, weekly/monthly calls.<br />
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I blame myself.<br />
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I hope he succeeds I hope he gets pissed on and goes out and grows a huge business and tells me I'm an a$$, that would make me happy.
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I'm sure I'll incur the wrath of the forum for speaking against you but at this point, I don't really care.<br />
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You don't have the patience and charity you claim to have.<br />
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I asked you how you would handle a customer with X problem and as usual, you tell me to f*** off, figure it out, but for the last time.<br />
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I think you need to only work with people who are already doing this business and need help scaling - not somebody new who was looking to get started.<br />
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At the start of this whole thing I told you I didn't have any experience with these tools or this business, and that I was working within constraints of my paycheck and time at my job - almost every time I asked you a question for clarification, or to get your opinion, anything...was met with some variation of "are you f***ing stupid" or "f***ing figure it out" or "you're f***ing dumb, dude." I figured it was smarter to ask you a question BEFORE I did something dumb, rather than AFTER, as in with the RoundUp weed killer.<br />
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You told me to follow this EXACTLY how you instruct, because you said you couldn't help me if I did anything different than how you did it. And yet, you get pissed off at me ANY time I ask you EXACTLY how you'd do it.<br />
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I appreciate that the $1,000 you charged was a one-time expense, as I did assume that it would be a monthly fee and was willing to pay that. But beyond that, man...<br />
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Spending all my money I'd saved up, failing constantly while learning new skills, being late to the party because of those constraints, AND having you constantly tell me how f***ing terrible I am every time I ask a question, despite you telling me to follow your advice EXACTLY?<br />
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What a f***ing wonderful environment to learn a new business in...I did something good? You say "cool." I made a mistake or asked you a question? "dude why are you so f***ing dumb?"<br />
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I'm sure you'll continue to be successful with your lawn business, and may even be successful coaching ALREADY ESTABLISHED lawn companies, but yeah, like you said, you're an a**.<br />
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So full time job, lawns and dating biz...<br />
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I feel like you're spreading yourself too thin.
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As per the above response, it would be stupid to not have a Plan B now.<br />
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I remember several months ago you were talking about moving out from your parents.<br />
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Where did you end up at last?
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Johnny suggested I not take on additional expenses while trying to afford the equipment to get this started, so I did not move out.<br />
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I just got paid today and am down to $3,100 in my personal account and $1,100 in the business account, before factoring in whatever it's going to cost me to fix my truck, which is being looked at by a mechanic as we speak.<br />
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So I certainly cannot afford to move out at this very moment.<br />
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Lots of landscaping places need people, turnover is high, lots of people are in and out within weeks, last time I was doing landscaping/mowing lawns, all it took was replying to an ad on kijiji, a quick call, then starting the next day. I had a lot of fun doing landscaping when I was 25 and doing odd jobs. I sometimes joke about hoping I get laid off in the summer because I would be out mowing lawns, out in the sun, getting in shape by default.<br />
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IMO, as long as you're at home and somewhat risk-free I'd start applying for a crew, once you have an offer to start, quit your current job, get the experience that matters (you can be in and out within a month) and go all in on your business.
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I got into this because I believed I could follow a blueprint with the guidance of somebody who had successfully built the business - not because I had a relevant skillset, not because I enjoy the work, not because I was good at it, and not because I already had the equipment and could afford it.<br />
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Now that I no longer have support during this process, I think it would be incredibly stupid of me to cut my income down by another 1/2 or 2/3.<br />
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