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My attempts at a career are being thwarted
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I am unemployed and I am looking to do something. I have several options (go back to school, join the military, open my own business, find a job, etc..) I think opening my own business would be the best thing for me given that I hated school and I have a problem with being bossed around.

At first I looked into opening a bar. The prices and liabilities associated with that are immense. I have money, but not enough to do the bar thing at the moment (it appears as if I would need AT LEAST half a million (U.S.)) to even get started in m city. So, I then looked into the "Pita Pit" franchise. I got a demographic study together which I presented to the Pita Pit people. They got back to me and said that somebody has already signed a contract with them to cover all of the city that I am in.

I'm depressed and I am out of ideas. I realize that this is the third or fourth time I have asked the Pub for some ideas on what I should do, but I keep asking. Does anybody have a halfway decent idea for a business...any kind of business?

Help!!

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. [Re: RandalFlagg]
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Re: My attempts at a career are being thwarted [Re: RandalFlagg]
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Gay strip club.

You could try a bookstore or something like that. A bookstore is somehting I've always been interested in opening.

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Re: My attempts at a career are being thwarted [Re: RandalFlagg]
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i think you should join the military, you'd fit right in

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Re: My attempts at a career are being thwarted [Re: faslimy]
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faslimy said:
i think you should join the military, you'd fit right in


Actually, that was one of the reasons that I decided on not joining the military. I don't think I would fit in with a bunch of 18 year olds (I am 26). But, the main reason I don't want to join is that I don't want to participate in a war effort that I disagree with.

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Re: My attempts at a career are being thwarted [Re: z_x_x_z]
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drgonz said:
buy a franchise.


What kind of franchise? Pita Pit would have been perfect for me. They specifically say that their target market is college students. I would have put it in the "college" part of my town (there are two universities with 35,000 students here). The Pita Pit guy was saying that I could open one outside of my city's limits (in one of the suburbs or something), but I don't think that would be as profitable.

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. [Re: RandalFlagg]
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Re: My attempts at a career are being thwarted [Re: Redstorm]
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Redstorm said:
Gay strip club.



Yeah...I'll get right on that  :rolleyes:

Redstorm said:
You could try a bookstore or something like that. A bookstore is somehting I've always been interested in opening.


A bookstore would be cool, but I surmise that they don't make much money.  How would I compete with the "Barnes and Nobles" and "Borders" of the world?  Plus in my city there already are several small quirky bookstores in the "hip" parts of town.  I fear that the market is saturated.

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Re: My attempts at a career are being thwarted [Re: z_x_x_z]
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Yeah, Panera is badass. I would give that a try.

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Re: My attempts at a career are being thwarted [Re: RandalFlagg]
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Check out these threads


very inspiring thread.for me anyways
first million

good ideas on here
money on the side


Im in the same situationi may have some money to invest figuring it all now

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Re: My attempts at a career are being thwarted [Re: z_x_x_z]
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drgonz said:
anything from rita's ice, to panera bread, to something like u mentioned near college kids. open a lil place that gives college kids a bunch of food for minimal costs. u'd clean up.


But, I would have to compete with the university cafeterias as well.

Rita's Ice? What is that?

Panera Bread is always in ritzy strip malls around here.

In the "college" part of town that I was mentioning, there are a bunch of restaurants. A Pita Pit would have been perfect because the food is good, it is cheap, and nobody else sells pitas in this part of town (I checked).

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Re: My attempts at a career are being thwarted [Re: RandalFlagg]
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move to a college town.
and open up a laundrymat/beer garden.

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. [Re: RandalFlagg]
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Re: My attempts at a career are being thwarted [Re: RandalFlagg]
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Selling crack worked out for a lot of people.


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Re: My attempts at a career are being thwarted [Re: Vvellum]
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bi0 said:
move to a college town.
and open up a laundrymat/beer garden.


I live in a college town that is a medium sized city (we have professional sports teams). Getting a liquor license in the "cool" areas gets very expensive.

I do believe that both of the colleges in this one "very college" area have laundry facilities on campus.

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Re: My attempts at a career are being thwarted [Re: z_x_x_z]
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drgonz said:
http://www.ritasice.com/

fuck the cafeterias.... If u can give kids a big box of fries and a grilled burger for under 5 bucks, you can sell them all day long...


I'm not sure how well cold stuff (Rita's ice) would sell in the winters up here. It isn't Alaska here or anything, but it does get cold and it does snow some.

There are several burger joints in this college area (McDonalds, a couple independent places, etc..)

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Re: My attempts at a career are being thwarted [Re: RandalFlagg]
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Massage parlor

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Re: My attempts at a career are being thwarted [Re: flowstone]
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flowstone said:
Selling crack worked out for a lot of people.


I am looking to do something legal and productive.

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Re: My attempts at a career are being thwarted [Re: RandalFlagg]
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I picked mushrooms and sold them to a local market for extra money, as well as tons of side jobs/landscaping for people all over the area. To break out big yourself you're going to have to bust major ass... I'm sure you know this.


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Re: My attempts at a career are being thwarted [Re: lowdominion]
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lowdominion said:
Massage parlor


I want to do something that is not seedy. I want my mommy to be proud of me.

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Re: My attempts at a career are being thwarted [Re: RandalFlagg]
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Get a lunch truck (grease truck :wink: ) park it near the school and slang big fat greasy sandwiches from it all day/night to the drunk folks

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Re: My attempts at a career are being thwarted [Re: RandalFlagg]
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landlord.

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Re: My attempts at a career are being thwarted [Re: RandalFlagg]
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how is property value in your area you could buy property and rent it out real-estate is usually a safe bet

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Re: My attempts at a career are being thwarted [Re: Vvellum]
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bi0 said:
landlord.


haha beat me to it

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Re: My attempts at a career are being thwarted [Re: flowstone]
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flowstone said:
I picked mushrooms and sold them to a local market for extra money



It is tough to break into the mushroom business (especially in my state). The big farms are so efficient that it is impossible to compete against them. Picking mushrooms also doesn't sound like it would be a consistent year-round money earner.

flowstone said:
To break out big yourself you're going to have to bust major ass... I'm sure you know this.


Yep, I know.

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Re: My attempts at a career are being thwarted [Re: RandalFlagg]
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You could join the Air Force and become an electrician. After the 4 years you could either just use your electrician schools or use your GI bill for whatever else you want.


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Worf: Things that would send cold chills down your spine, and wake you up in the middle of the night. No, it is better you do not know

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Re: My attempts at a career are being thwarted [Re: lowdominion]
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lowdominion said:
how is property value in your area you could buy property and rent it out real-estate is usually a safe bet


Well, I was under the impression that real estate is overvalued all over the country right now. I think that there is a big risk in buying property.

I have enough money to start up a decent little business, but not enough to buy enough properties to provide enough income to survive off of.

But...I have had an idea. In my hometown (not the big city I live in now) the economy is wretched. This small city is in a county of about 55,000 people and it is about an hour and a half north of me. A lot of the people that live there are on welfare. You can get a nice house for 30,000 and you can buy a fixer-upper for about 10,000. You can even get homes that are up for tax sale for under 1,000.

It is a very common practise for out of town landlords to come in and buy up property there because it is so cheap. They put in just enough money to get the place to pass code and they rent the place out to HUD families (HUD is where the government pays part or all of your rent). So, these out of town landlords are guaranteed to get a government check every month. They usually rent it out for 10 years or so and they don't keep the place maintained. They will let the place be condemned or be taken because of unpaid taxes (I am not shitting you) because it is cheaper for them to let the city take it than to fix it back up to rent it. They basically let HUD families trash the place and run it into the ground and they make a nice little profit from HUD.

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Re: My attempts at a career are being thwarted [Re: RandalFlagg]
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RandalFlagg - future slum lord.

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Re: My attempts at a career are being thwarted [Re: RandalFlagg]
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man thats crazy 30,000 for a house! a fixer upper here cost about 300,000 and a decent condo goes for around 250,000

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Re: My attempts at a career are being thwarted [Re: RandalFlagg]
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What state are you in anyway?

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Re: My attempts at a career are being thwarted [Re: Boom]
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Being a landlord sucks. I personally clean houses for myself. There is money in it and if you actually started a buisness you could live comfortably.

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Re: My attempts at a career are being thwarted [Re: z_x_x_z]
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Anything for drunken munchies. Or maybe a liquor store.


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Re: My attempts at a career are being thwarted [Re: RandalFlagg]
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Open a new age spiritual healing center. I'll help.


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Re: My attempts at a career are being thwarted [Re: Vvellum]
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bi0 said:
RandalFlagg - future slum lord.


:grin:

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Re: My attempts at a career are being thwarted [Re: Boom]
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Booooom said:
What state are you in anyway?


Pennsylvania. This town is right in the middle of the Rust Belt. All of the manufacturing jobs have moved away. The population is mainly old people on Social Security and younger people on welfare. There are some people with decent jobs, but not many.

Just to give you an idea of how bad the economy is: My mom graduated college with several degrees and a 3.98 GPA. She went looking for a job around there and was offered $6.25 an hour plus benefits. This was about 8 years ago, so I assume that $6.25 would be the equivalent of about $7.50 an hour now. $7.50 an hour for a college graduate with impeccable grades? That's how bad the economy is there.

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Re: My attempts at a career are being thwarted [Re: RandalFlagg]
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Damn, yeah the only business I see there is something that will win over the college kids.  Become a bail bondsman :lol:

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Re: My attempts at a career are being thwarted [Re: Shroomism]
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Shroomism said:
Open a new age spiritual healing center. I'll help.


I don't know if that would fly in my town (it has a reputation for being very "working class"). Plus, new age stuff frightens me.

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Re: My attempts at a career are being thwarted [Re: RandalFlagg]
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I'd move. I thought things were bad here. That does limit you on a buisness.

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Re: My attempts at a career are being thwarted [Re: RandalFlagg]
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Rent out the inversion table

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Re: My attempts at a career are being thwarted [Re: RandalFlagg]
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take a break for a while and ponder on it, that is what I am doing...that and I have other legal bullshit I got to deal with. I think I will get into something else when I do decide to go back to school again.
dont stress on shit, I have been feeling all pissed off at my life and dwelling on all the negative shit, but I started looking positive again and it is starting to bring me out of it, I have been feeling lonely too, really lonely, fuck I hate it as well..this sickness I have it not helping either...I feel like shit, I have had a hard time even breathing, that is when you know you are sick..even using an inhaler.
I hardly have been smoking either..trippy illness. It needs to go away.

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Re: My attempts at a career are being thwarted [Re: peeper]
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peeper said:
I'd move. I thought things were bad here. That does limit you on a buisness.


I think you misunderstand me. The city that I live in now has an OK economy. The town I grew up in is the place that has the bad economy. I don't want to open a business in my hometown. The only thing I would do in my hometown would be slum lord type stuff.

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Re: My attempts at a career are being thwarted [Re: Skunk420]
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A FUCKING LIQUOR STORE. College kids love to get fucked up.


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Re: My attempts at a career are being thwarted [Re: Skunk420]
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Quit smoking dude, that shit is bad for you.


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Re: My attempts at a career are being thwarted [Re: Boom]
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Booooom said:
Rent out the inversion table


Smartass.  :smirk:

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Re: My attempts at a career are being thwarted [Re: RandalFlagg]
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I did.

I say keep the service industry in mind. Americans are getting very lazy.

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Re: My attempts at a career are being thwarted [Re: Skunk420]
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skunk78395 said:
take a break for a while and ponder on it


I have been taking a break for 8 months now. I have pondered and pondered and I need to ponder up something as soon as is possible. I am getting antsy.

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Re: My attempts at a career are being thwarted [Re: HELLA_TIGHT]
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It is not that, I have a illness..trust me my nose is all fucked up and my lungs are congested...beer seems like it helps me..call it crazy
I have been hacking out phlem all day..there is a lot of people sick that I know, it will pass. but yes, I have practically quit sometimes, but I like an occasional cigarette..my nose is so fucked up again, I am doing better...fucking strange...

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Re: My attempts at a career are being thwarted [Re: RandalFlagg]
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It is to late for real estate. at least too late for it being a "safe" investment. There is a real estate bubble and its about to pop.

Every one and their mother is a "real estate agent" thats proof right there

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Re: My attempts at a career are being thwarted [Re: RandalFlagg]
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I have took a break for 9 months...but drug diversion classes and fines makes it harder to afford to go back anytime soon..dont feel too bad, I have taken a break from school for many, many years...

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Re: My attempts at a career are being thwarted [Re: buckwheat]
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mindcandy said:
It is to late for real estate. at least too late for it being a "safe" investment. There is a real estate bubble and its about to pop.



In 99.9% of areas in America I would agree. The economy in my hometown is ALWAYS bad though. It doesn't matter what the national economy or real estate market is...houses are always cheap in my hometown.

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Re: My attempts at a career are being thwarted [Re: Skunk420]
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I'm saying quit because it's FUCKING BAD FOR YOU.


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Re: My attempts at a career are being thwarted [Re: RandalFlagg]
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Buy a copy of Entrepreneur magazine. It's a great mag with tons of info. How about asphalt work, like sealcoating. My dad has a sealcoating biz, it's pretty good money.


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Re: My attempts at a career are being thwarted [Re: RandalFlagg]
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Just think: steam rooms, swedish massage, and chicks.


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Re: My attempts at a career are being thwarted [Re: RandalFlagg]
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Yea house flippers and especially speculators will be the ones taking the hit.

There's still foreign Real Estate investing whats happend here is or will happen in other countries i.e India. You would make tons of money but its way complicated like how not to get taxed twice,also risky as hell with crazy property laws. But big money!

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Re: My attempts at a career are being thwarted [Re: HELLA_TIGHT]
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HELLA_TIGHT said:
I'm saying quit because it's FUCKING BAD FOR YOU.

..it is not that easy when you have been doing it for years, the longer you have been doing it the harder it is to quit..

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