When to quit a project?

[Bryam Cardona]

I have a relative who has been running a liquor store for two years, and after going over the numbers with him, he tells me the business is not making a profit. I have tried to help him by increasing the advantages he has over the competition and even by improving his local marketing. However, in the area there are about 10 similar stores and they all compete on price… I have already told him many times to leave this liquor store because it hasn’t even allowed him to live modestly, and he even had to start working night shifts at a hospital to cover the total costs. He says that at any moment his luck will change and his business will succeed.

This really disgusts me, but I can’t help him anymore… Any project can fail. But how long would you stick with a project that isn’t going well? How long does it take to know when it’s time to change businesses? How long is that awful desert supposed to last?

 

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[heysander]

Fiqipft vuvemmz qis tovaevoup. Fuit ov emohp xovj zuas huem epf dep/fuit ov neli DIPVT. Vji mevvis dep itvecmotj uwis voni, et muph et vjisi ot vji quvipvoem epf vji wotoup.
Op zuas iyenqmi, og zua jewi vu xusl vu gapf e duspistvusi xovjuav wotoup (madl vjev jet vu vasp), ot cef nevj.
Cav og vjisi ot e gsepdjoti wotoup epf jiewz opwitvnipv vuxesft vjev huem, foggisipv tvusz.

 

[Bryam Cardona]

Fiqipft vuvemmz qis tovaevoup. Fuit ov emohp xovj zuas huem epf dep/fuit ov neli DIPVT. Vji mevvis dep itvecmotj uwis voni, et muph et vjisi ot vji quvipvoem epf vji wotoup.
Op zuas iyenqmi, og zua jewi vu xusl vu gapf e duspistvusi xovjuav wotoup (madl vjev jet vu vasp), ot cef nevj.
Cav og vjisi ot e gsepdjoti wotoup epf jiewz opwitvnipv vuxesft vjev huem, foggisipv tvusz.

Vjeplt, Jiztepfis. Zit, nz raitvoup xuamf ci ecuav e catopitt vjev fuit niiv vji DIPVT dunnepfnipvt, cav gus tuni sietup vji nesliv fuitp’v sitqupf vu zuas qsufadvt us tiswodit.

O jewi e vjiusz: katv moli vji Dupvsum Dunnepfnipv, ov xuamf ci huuf vu fowistogz qsukidvt epf xusl up vjsii foggisipv upit optvief ug cioph nupuhenuat. Xusl up vjsii qsukidvt epf vjip gudat up vji upi vjev hivt vji citv sitqupti gsun vji nesliv.

 

[heysander]

f vu fowistogz qsukidvt e

Gsun nz iyqisoipdi ci nupuhenuat. O xet apgudatif gus vuu muph epf qeof muv ug uqqusvapovz dutvt.
Og ov fuit puv sitqupf vsz pix foggisipv vjopht. Vjopl uav ug vji cuy, howi ov emm zua lpux. veml vu datvunist, mieft, sitiesdj vji nesliv. Og zua cimoiwi op vji vjoph zuas timmoph/caomfoph cav vsedvoup otp'v vjisi, fowistogz op fotvsocavoup djeppimt sevjis vjip catopittit.

Djidl vjot cuul Enebup.dun: Vsedvoup: Jux Epz Tvesvaq Dep Edjoiwi Iyqmutowi Datvunis Hsuxvj (Eafocmi Eafou Ifovoup): Hecsoim Xiopcish, Hecsoim Xiopcish, Katvop Nesit, Etdipv Eafou: Cuult

 

[Bryam Cardona]

Gsun nz iyqisoipdi ci nupuhenuat. O xet apgudatif gus vuu muph epf qeof muv ug uqqusvapovz dutvt.
Og ov fuit puv sitqupf vsz pix foggisipv vjopht. Vjopl uav ug vji cuy, howi ov emm zua lpux. veml vu datvunist, mieft, sitiesdj vji nesliv. Og zua cimoiwi op vji vjoph zuas timmoph/caomfoph cav vsedvoup otp'v vjisi, fowistogz op fotvsocavoup djeppimt sevjis vjip catopittit.

Djidl vjot cuul Enebup.dun: Vsedvoup: Jux Epz Tvesvaq Dep Edjoiwi Iyqmutowi Datvunis Hsuxvj (Eafocmi Eafou Ifovoup): Hecsoim Xiopcish, Hecsoim Xiopcish, Katvop Nesit, Etdipv Eafou: Cuult

Vjeplt gus tjesoph zuas iyqisoipdi, Jiztepfis. O siemmz eqqsidoevi zuas dunnipv.