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Looks like there is potential for me to get a job in Seattle, WA. Across the country for me. They pay for location costs!
But my venture requires me to have my own home with all this machinery. Obviously, the home prices in Seattle, WA are no joke. If I can’t have my own place is it worth it?
Field Service Engineer. Hydraulics/Pneumatics/Fluidics. High travel job within a region going to clients. Company gives me a car and credit card. This is looking like a golden handcuff. Would you guys take this offer? Although the starting is just “ok”, but with the perks it looks good. My venture would be at hold now because of time, not money anymore if I do this. I could be away for training all over the country for a few months. Apparently a ton of time on the road. I fear I might not have time to do business if I have this job.
The job knowledge is helpful in my venture far along the road though, doesn’t help me out now.
Except right now you have NO VENTURE AT ALL.It takes away from the main venture as well, since these ventures require constant product research for the next thing. You don't spend time on building the real venture. I would take a McDonald's job any day over "unremarkable" business.
Did another round of few garage sales today’s near my home and...nothing.
People know the value of their stuff. They are basically charging retail prices. Other stuff that I did look up had potential profit of like $1...
More reading and research and buying more books. It is a shame that there is little information on my fastlane venture.
Never realized that location has a significant impact on you getting the job. If you are far away, you are dead last on their choices. Interviewer said, your resume and interview was cool and all, BUT...I will need to choose local candidates first. Also, not having a job for several months makes you look like crap because these Human Resource people are slowlaners. One interviewer kept questioning why I left my last place. Like she assumed I got fired. It just puts everything off to a bad start.
Never realized, how brutal this job hunting is. They lead you on saying how good the company is (pretty much bragging about their perks) and then ghost you completely. Happened a dozen times now.
Never realized that location has a significant impact on you getting the job. If you are far away, you are dead last on their choices. Interviewer said, your resume and interview was cool and all, BUT...I will need to choose local candidates first. Also, not having a job for several months makes you look like crap because these Human Resource people are slowlaners. One interviewer kept questioning why I left my last place. Like she assumed I got fired. It just puts everything off to a bad start. You have to fight the biases of the interviewer. Some places wanted me to pretty much get on my knees praising their company.
I wish I never believed the “You don’t need money to build a business.” BS.
You need a lot of money, especially if you want that business to last. Not ones that explode in less than 3 years or some cash out gig.
For those that literally got no luck getting job even applying endlessly.
How I type on this forum is not representative of my resume. If I wrote the same way on this forum on my resume, there would be no way I would get the job.
Unfortunately, the knowledge for my business does not come in audio or podcasts, it is archaic.
Never realized, how brutal this job hunting is. They lead you on saying how good the company is (pretty much bragging about their perks) and then ghost you completely. Happened a dozen times now.
Never realized that location has a significant impact on you getting the job. If you are far away, you are dead last on their choices. Interviewer said, your resume and interview was cool and all, BUT...I will need to choose local candidates first. Also, not having a job for several months makes you look like crap because these Human Resource people are slowlaners. One interviewer kept questioning why I left my last place. Like she assumed I got fired. It just puts everything off to a bad start. You have to fight the biases of the interviewer. Some places wanted me to pretty much get on my knees praising their company.
I wish I never believed the “You don’t need money to build a business.” BS.
You need a lot of money, especially if you want that business to last. Not ones that explode in less than 3 years or some cash out gig.
Did think about doing this, but what happens if they call me in for interview? I am on other side of country. Pay for plane ticket for only a chance?
So the reality is that I have a healthcare degree. Not an engineering degree. Generally people in the entrepreneur circles tend to say you don't need a degree and you can learn everything you need from Youtube videos and/or online courses. Guess not. Went back over a few positions I applied for and was also immediately rejected by all of them.
The reality is nobody takes you seriously if you learn off Youtube or some online course. They hold no weight.
Lots of entrepreneurs like to thrash that degrees are worthless. But society as a whole and companies still value degrees. They don't even look at you if you don't have one in related field.
Everything is a trade off. I only have enough money to do one at a time. I want to:
Go back to school ($40k) for a piece of paper
Develop my products ($???k)
Rent out a Home ($20-30k)
Never realized, how brutal this job hunting is. They lead you on saying how good the company is (pretty much bragging about their perks) and then ghost you completely. Happened a dozen times now.
Never realized that location has a significant impact on you getting the job. If you are far away, you are dead last on their choices. Interviewer said, your resume and interview was cool and all, BUT...I will need to choose local candidates first. Also, not having a job for several months makes you look like crap because these Human Resource people are slowlaners. One interviewer kept questioning why I left my last place. Like she assumed I got fired. It just puts everything off to a bad start. You have to fight the biases of the interviewer. Some places wanted me to pretty much get on my knees praising their company.
I wish I never believed the “You don’t need money to build a business.” BS.
You need a lot of money, especially if you want that business to last. Not ones that explode in less than 3 years or some cash out gig.
Lol, no not at all. This is just my internet postings.
Another less risky method would be to just put my real address and mention relocation at my own cost. I mean they are eventually going to find out I am not local. My thoughts on it backfiring is that you give the impression that you are untruthful. If you are untruthful about address, what else are you untruthful about?
Yeah, I keep saying that it takes money to make money for my specific venture. I am aware of free/near free ventures like software, landscaping, painting, etc.
This is an example of a business that has high costs that received lots of funding, how would a regular income person go about bootstrapping a business like this? No loans or investors. As you can see, it is extremely costly to produce a prototype that is presentable on a crowdsourced platform. But then again you kind of need to have all the equipment to make it professional enough.
Just skip to the middle of video to see their product development area.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTlmhOCU5sQ&t=530s
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