My dad used to tell me that when I would start bitching about something. He would then prompt me to come up with a solution. That pearl of wisdom was usually followed with a resounding, “Life ain’t fair – get used to it.”

When I was a kid, everything was about being fair. Playing nice and sharing and following the rules were the orders of the day.

Recently I haven’t been posting much. It has caused us to drop from Alltop (which was my last post.) Mostly because I have been too busy to type anything up. Each of these posts take about two hours – in case you were wondering. Time spent here, isn’t time being spent on making money (I do this for free remember?)

As an update, the last 6 months have been spent on the planning on opening a restaurant and lounge. Growing up in and owning other businesses in the food industry gives me a pretty good head for this. We finally found a location I like and construction has begun. Unless the city or the neighbors get in the way, we should be up and bumping in a few months.

However, things aren’t as sunny at one of my other businesses. I have lost two employees. One employee left to work for another unrelated company for more money. Good for her. The other has left to work for one of my vendors. This pretty much means I will no longer be doing business with that vendor.

But that is not a problem, at least not for me. See, I have to hire new people. These new people are willing to work for half as much as I was paying these last two employees. That’s great right? Hell yes it is! That means I can get more done for half as much. The funny thing is, I let the interviewees tell me how much they wanted to make and they volunteered to work for that much. Continue reading ‘Times are tough all over’