THE Fj Cruiser.

Hey, well at least your not bitter about it Brandon. :)

So what is this mystery job/company anyway? Am I the only one that doesn't know what Chris does?

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Originally Posted by robertf03

hey brandon how old is that ipod?

can I borrow it and dump it w/ anapod explorer? Does it even support usb?

fisrt gen, you will have to use a firewire to link up. that is why it is out at the shop 24/7.

not bitter dave, just a low tolerance for suffering know-it-alls ;)

flem i think i have a firewire cable if you need to borrow one. now back to your regularly scheduled program

is it the smaller shaped firwire plug or the bigger more common one?

need the small one, thats all my laptop has.

the big'n

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Originally Posted by Jackasic

it's called experience, not assumptions. So here is my guess: you a spoiled kid from Dallas who's parents have worked from nothing and now have a roaring business. Not wanting to see little Johnie suffer the way they did starting out, they bought you just about everything. The probably payed for your school, room, board, books, frat dues, and trips to Vegas.

With no real expenses and the desire to help "get you on your feet", they throw you some bone of a business. Basically, they hand you the customers, biz plan, contacts, funding and suppliers. That, or they just cut you a slice off theirs. either way, you didn't start your own business, you just inherited it before the had the chance to kick off.

Why would I have this view? Because I know plenty off real business owners of both small and large business and none of them have your attitude. they worked hard and struggled to succeed, last thing they want to do is piss it all away cashing some hobby. heck with most, it is 20 years before they will spend any real money on themselves.

But by all means, please keep on. I am now in the Robert camp and will grab a beer and watch the hilarity. I am sure all comments in this thread will just bounce off you any way, as you already know all.

Hey I have no problem with you saying whatever the **** you want to say to me but come out and say it, like you did. I would really prefer you said it to me in person, not from behind a computer but I realize that isn't really an option.

Again seeing how it is none of your goddamn business what my finances are my first inclination is to tell you to go **** off, BUT I am not going to.

My college experience AS I HAVE ADMITTED BEFORE went like this, my parents paid for what was on the tuition statement from Texas A&M, I was very fortunate to have parents who told me they would foot the bill for a total of 4 years. I graduated in 4 because that is what was paid for. listen closely to this:
I PAID FOR MY RENT, BILLS, BOOKS, FOOD, INSURANCE, GAS, AND TRUCKS That is not any of your business but you called it out. I did it the first two years working odd ****ty jobs around college station (ie- sears stockroom) the last two for my side of the family business.

NOW you really want to know what the fudge I do?!? My parents started from nothing as you said (I am an only child who grew up on a ranch tending IT while my parents busted their asses to make sure we had food on the table and bills paid for, and I am grateful for them for that). At 14 I started working for the company part time. At 18 I was put on the books as "shareholder" so that my parents could solidify something for me. I saw no benefits, no pay, no nothing from this except the work I did for them each summer, but it was on paper as me owning part of the family business. Two years ago I had an idea to expand our business plan, a new side of our Insurance Replacement business that was a pure evaluation side. We would evaluate product on an insurance claim for a fee. I marketed to a couple of company's that summer with the permission of my parents and it was a surprise hit with one of our clients, Safeco Insurance. They enacted a "pilot" evaluation program with us and my parents graciously allowed me the opportunity to run this new division of our company. I ran it from College Station by working over the internet. For the first year I evaluated every test claim they sent over and was paid per line item I evaluated. It was enough to pay the bills and save some money up. Last summer after a lot of hard work on my part marketing to their claims managers, regional managers, and large loss adjusters, we were given the contract to begin evaluating ALL their claims for them. I worked and supervised the claims from College Station managing a team of 3 evaluators based in Dallas in our office, and that is when I bought my truck. After I graduated a little over a month ago I came back home after turning down a job offer in Houston to come back and try to give a little something back to my parents. They want to retire within 5-10 years and don't trust anyone else in this world. For all they had done to me I thought it would have been down right selfish not to come back and help them out.

Currently I have started another "pilot" program with the state of Florida's insurance company, Citizens, and hope to get that fully up and running in 6 months. Because of our new evaluation division our net profit doubled last year and if we are forecasting correct will actually triple this year over last year. THAT is why I am throwing some money into my ****ing hobbies.

Our company is Replacement Source of America, d.b.a. ReSource. We do about 8 mil in sales each year and we are still striving to improve. We are currently hiring Inside Sales People and Evaluators and even looking for a new receptionist/data entry person so if any of you ladies want to come work for us, just give me a buzz or send me a PM.

You want to call me not a REAL business owner, trying working from 7 AM to 7 PM every single ****ing day and most saturdays because your damned employees are morons. You know plenty of REAL business owners then you know what a pain in the ass small business is and how it goes up and down and how you better enjoy the good times while you have them. You know plenty of real business owners? Then you know how if feel about how hard I have worked these past two years to make sure something that I have invested so much time and effort into doesn't crash and burn and lose our entire family business our very best client.

Sorry for the rant guys, especially my brothers that actually know me down in College Station, that are having to read this ****. I don't like hearing **** from people who don't even ****ing know me and want to make assumptions just because they saw some rich kids in college squander away everything mommy and daddy gave them. I am also sorry to have written such a LONG post and I really didn't want to get into this. To everyone who has never met me or had a beer with me and doesn't like me for actually throwing around the idea of something incredible and wheeling something that yeah cost more than 10K, you can kiss my ass.

I was supposed to go wheeling this weekend at TX TTORA Takeover too. But no I had to come into work today to fix a claim, and make sure my marketing trip to Tampa this week is going to go smooth.

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I don't know you all that well man, but I see no reason why you need to defend how you make your money, or how you spend it.

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Originally Posted by Cajun

This thread makes me smile :)

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Originally Posted by Graystroke

this thread is so chadnutz!!

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I am glad ya'll are at least getting a kick from my thread, as long as I at least provide someone some entertainment I have accomplished something...

PS- What the hell is that ^^^?

***, love the validation ... just about passed out I was laughing so hard. Dang, I should have pegged you for an only child.

7 to 7, what a part timer. :rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by Jackasic

***, love the validation. 7 to 7, what a part timer.

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Want to explain?

Hey Cook if you get sometime can you move all the off topic discussion about me personally over to new thread in the kitchen titled "Let's kick Chris in the nuts online", and let me have my build up thread back?

Thanks so much :gigem: