Whats your job? How much do you make?

[LIP]

Marine Engineer, boat builder, plumber, electrician and capenter all in one.

I work for a company that builds boats from scratch, fits them out, the lot and then hires them out for boating holidays.

I'm not going to say how much i earn a year, but i smoke roughly £60 of weed a day, and another £20 a day on food and drink, and then bills on top of that, so you can imagine how much i make. I dont need to say it.

[REEFERDREAMZ]

Field Nurse, Good Money.

[onequestion]

I build/design Swimming pools/spa/water features in So Cal for my own Co.
(16 years) I pull down around 275K a year (don't tell the IRS:wtf
the most I'v ever made was 625K about 3 years ago
I went to school for cooking and worked in many resturants and never made more then a 25K a year
I'm almost 40

Sounds awesome, howd you get into that buissiness without going to school for that stuff?

[Dro_Princess]

I work at rent a center and make 10 a hour. When I get promoted(after my probation period) it will be 10.50. Right now I work around 55 hrs a week and after taxes and all that good shit I bring home about 480 a week.

[Dr HaZzMatT Esq.]

Sounds awesome, howd you get into that buissiness without going to school for that stuff?

I've been lookin for wtf ima do with my life maybe this is it lol. How'd you manage to get your business up and running?

well. lets see here, I don't want to take this off topic,but it went something like this;

I cleaned pools on a route for a guy in Newport Beach (where I was going to cooking school) when I was fresh out of High School as a part time job, I had a little Toyota and cleaned 10 pools a day mon~fri (I loved it! had my head phones ,shorts ,sun etc ( I should start another thread about the naked and nude housewives I "ran" into!) well, I cleaned pools and spas for about 2 years while I was going to Chef's college at night I then started my own Service Co. by placing an ad in a local paper..I got loads of call for repairs and eqpt replacement I built my route pretty fast (I paid a lot of attrition to my customers and their needs and read everything about water chemistry and everything about swimming pools and their applications respectively. (I'm a voratatous reader and read trade and service magazines) I had to obtain all the necessary local permits to conduct Biz as a Service Co. (this was real easy..you pay your local taxes and you should not have too many problems from competing co.'s)

I built my service Co from 20 customers to well over 300 in about 3 years ! I had 4 other people (independent contractors) working my route for me while I ran around replacing pool pumps and doing acid washes etc on those pools (this was more money then I ever could make cleaning pools all month!) but I had to have the service accounts to get the work

I studied for my Pool Service Tech card and was able to get my contractors lic to do larger jobs (apartment houses hotels etc)

after about 5 years of doing this and finishing Cooking school I started a catering co selling sandwiches to local offices I also built up this route and sold it to my one and only employee for 10K..I used this money to secure and open accounts at local swimming whorehouses

where they would give me terms (30 days net FOB) this allowed me to generate my cash flow to advertise and grow my Co even further

I did this for a few more years making a pretty good living (I was single and renting a house down by the beach with 3 roommates..my rent was bascily FREE after I charged the roommates 600 a month ..so I paid all the utility's life was good BWK Before Wife & Kids lol)

I then applied for my C~53 Pool Builder lic with the state (Ca allowed you to apply for your lic after 5 or more years in you perspective field) I studied my ass off and took the test and passed! this was no easy task (I hate taking tests !) the state wants all kind of $$ and a 15K bond luckily I had the cash and was able to deposit this amount in a "cash bond" with the Contractors board (I latter was able to use my house as leverage and got the cash back!)

I hacked away for many years still servicing pools and repairing them

I sold my entire service Co to a large Co for 200K I devoted my time to cooking at a friends recently opened restaurant and did catering and parties for tall ships (big $$$ boats) for rich clients in Newport Beach and Huntington Beach

I drove my 71 Caddy convertible and spent cash like a drunken sailor for a few years until it got old (oh btw I did a lease option with my landlord for the house I was renting and ended up owning the house by the beach for a song with a lease option and about 25K in cash)

I latter sold that house (after renting it out for summer rentals) for 1.2 million (I bought it for 625K!...I got lucky I thank JaH for this "good luck!) PRAISE JaH he will provide!

Oh yea after/while all this I was able to get my AA in Culinary Arts and get a job as an ast chef at a local restaurant and did some bar-tending at night (just to meet girls and free drinks!lol )

I now build swimming pools and spas and specialize in custom water features (waterfalls,koi ponds laps pools etc) I use all Sub contractors to build these prodjects. I'm married (to a MILF lol)and have 2 awesome kids (Katie & Blake)

It was not an easy road at times (I got sued twice for construction defaults) and was out of work for some time with a back/neck injury i suffered (hence the Medical Mary Jane! Thank you prop 215!)

If I would give any advice, that would be learn everything you can about your perspective trade and talk to others in your same field, you'd be surprised how people will tell you their story (hence, me writing this) they will share there pit falls and stories of success!

My story is a combination of luck and hard work, but I feel the only way you "get lucky" to to be in the places you can "make" your luck work! Network! tell everybody you know and even more to strangers what you do DON'T STOP wake up every morning and tell yourself "today I'm going to make more money then yesterday"

I now have a lifestyle where I can enjoy flying kite with my kids and wine & dine my wife at my terms! I go to Maui 3 ~4 times a years and take 2 big vacations with the family for 2 weeks at a time. It's taken 16+ years to "get here" and I never forget that it can be taken away in a moments notice. I live life within the moment and thank God for his blessings upon me!

I wish you luck and hope you get your Brass ring this world has alot to offer but by being humble and giving to others in need things will fall into place



That's my story (and I'm sticking to it!) sorry about the misspelling (why no spell checker here??)

~Hazz:thumbsup:

[big smoke07]

I read it all man. Seems like all the hardwork paid off in the long run hopefully I'll be able to tell how i get rich later in life.

[weedmaster]

foreman/bricklayer for small building company £35k a year

[REEFERDREAMZ]

Field Nurse... $$ Enough $$:jointsmile:

[PHATTY LUMPKINS]

Pig Farmer. Not enough for the shit I go thru.:thumbsup:

[Darth Vapor]

Corporate Debt Recovery Specialist

I'm a Bill Collector. $52,000/year