You are only as good as the people around you. That goes double if you help them get there.
I’m going to start taking sundays off myself. Been telling myself that for 3 months now. Half succeeded once. 
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Then I truly feel for you,
Ive had many projects and contacts that seemed to fall through for no reason on the other end. Sometimes even relationships that were 100% amicable and profitable go to shit. Some people aren’t cut out for this.
Just had a multistate MED+REC operation grind to a halt indefinitely because a contractor essentially scammed the founder out of… a lot of cash. His respective role wasn’t difficult to do, and it would’ve taken less time+effort to do it properly than continuously covering up his own negligence for months. More than 15 people working on the project full time now have to find something new. You can put instances like this into the blatant fraud category, but it’s mostly just plain negligence and stupidity. Where do you find people who actually want to build something great?
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It doesn’t bother me, i can only learn from the experience and move forward.
im NOT going to cry over opportunities that fell through… i rather focus that time and energy into acquiring new opportunities. for every new deal i get or that falls through. i make sure to have at least 4 or 5 other deals in negotiation. I don’t waste time.
damn, did someone not do their due diligence
Yeeeeup. He’s the only guy who didn’t get background checked before coming onto the project for some reason.
Yeah that’s not a good approach, some people have families or other responsibilities, hobbies, athletics etc.
Just because you can and want to work all the time doesn’t mean if someone else isn’t on 7 days a week it means they aren’t dedicated and get a lot done.
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Of course! , that’s some shit
I haven’t ever met a part time successful person
I’ve met a lot of part time people with excuses, sadly.
I guess that’s just how i look at it .
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I have friends/associates that are into the B’s. I have done well for myself and when I’m in the room with these guys I’m the scrub in the room every time. I can guarentee you that none of these older dudes sleep past 5am any day of the week and they are still on conference calls at midnight. Most of them have generational wealth and still cant lay down and just live their lives out. This is just a quality, a trait that some people have in themselves, that will not let them retire.
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That is exactly the drive people need, and the kind of people i want around me.
There is no such thing as “Work life balance.”
more times than not, if someone doesn’t return my call after the 3rd call within days. ill delete their contact. If someone Consistently does not answer their phone after 6pm i delete and move on .
for me that is the TIP of the iceberg, rather not get involved any further with them.
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Depends on how you define success.
I dunno what you think success is… Money? What do you want money for? To live a comfy life? Then why not enjoy life while you are young? Working some weekends sure but work isn’t everything…
I come from a high achieving family by most measures, I won’t bore you with details.
I’ll work hard, play hard. I’ve done the 80 hour work week. It’s pointless you end up being way less efficient. I’d rather surf sick waves, and climb badass mountains and have time to be with my kids as they grow. And during the week get down and put in full 100% effort at work.
Not sure why you can’t have both, seems like you are missing out on life… There’s so much to experience work is just one thing. Nobody looks back on their life on their deathbed and says “dang I spent too much time with my kids doing awesome stuff”
What is success? For me it’s having a great job that allows me to still go out and achieve real athletic things in the mountains and see my kids smile on the weekends
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As i mentioned earlier , everybody has a different meaning of success. and what they perceive as ‘‘success’’
its a nice therapeutic session in here.
This^^^
Work ethic and drive is nice, but if you aren’t present to the wonders of life and connections with your fellow humans, whats the point of anything?
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What is it all for? What is your life’s purpose? To stack that paper? But why? To what end?
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stack it to the ceiling son .
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I manage a lab, don’t get paid more than anyone else but do triple the work load than anyone else. I didn’t ask for these responsibilities, they came to me because I wanted to make sure they were done right and the only way I could successfully be sure of that is if I did it. I get to work two hours before everyone else and leave 2 hours later (we work 7-7.) We work six days a week but on Sunday I go in just to clean the ovens and get the CRC ready for the following day. We are training some people now and I find it’s so difficult to understand how people think also?. If I’m not at work I’m on future trying to find a better to solution to a problem that occurred during the day…
I just like things done right and organized.
That’s what I love about what I do, is that there are so many different variables and parameters to discover on one given path (run) lol.
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very nice! you want something done. you got to do it yourself . keep it up
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Yeah I have to admit I find the attitude displayed here pretty strange. If “no work life balance” is the definition of professionalism, then I don’t know may people who fit it, and I wouldn’t want to. To me work is a means to an end. To provide for the necessities of life, and to satisfy my desire for scientific exploration. There are monks who don’t work a job at all and are among the happiest people on Earth. The goal is to be happy; if working 80 hours a week is what makes you happy then go ahead and do it, but I don’t think 90% of people fall in that category and I wouldn’t expect them to.
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