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struck a nerve there lol
They were deleting the gamechanger history hahhah

Thats typically kept up by a parent, or atleast it was in my day.

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Still is. Although I'm not sure how it works. I'll often time look back and scores are changed. leave the game and it was 5-4 and wake up the next day to check next weeks game time and its 6-4

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A great goal is always to reach upper management. Problem is that the number of positions for indians greatly exceeds the positions for chiefs. The idea that everyone under 30 can just be an Indian and everyone over 30 will be a chief isn't realistic.

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First of all I never said upper management. I said management or company owner. We are talking about the trades. If you can't be in management in the trades, where the hell else were you going to manage that's a better career? Its non existent.

Owning a very small company of say 3-4 people, just you and another technician or 2 and a wife that does some of the books and admin is not that hard at all. That's small business at its corp. If you can't manage that, I'm sorry you are destined to use a wrench your whole life.

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myself CEO

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You need to figure out your role first. Then I'd suggest prioritizing someone that wants to and has a history of doing anything that you don't want to do moving forward. Along with what the company needs.

It sounds like you may need multiple positions here though, and that you have the money to invest in multiple positions.

A proven CFO won't be cheap, my suggestion is get someone experienced and pay out the arse for it on the salary/ bonus side as said. Stay away from equity. But a lot of people that are proven are going to want some equity.

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Everyone has a plan until they get hit in the face.

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This. I have 0 doubt Zuck has good skills. I doubt Jonah Hill does. But there's a difference between being good at BJJ and MMA, in that MMA requires you to get punched in the face and get hurt to be really really good.

There's almost no chance Zuck or Jonah are getting their arse kicked on the reg to get better. FWIW I don't blame them, frick that with Zuck money.

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I'm not sad that AI is entering the "wealth management" space. Charging people a percentage for what they provide is bullshite.[/quote

Most of that “wealth mgmt” is robo generated anyways.

Now do RE agents. Taking giant % of people’s home equity for what they do / do not do is robbery.

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I don't personally disagree, but the internet has had RE options for many years and they aren't going away.

At some point, there is a business of comfort that these positions give to many people. I don't necessarily agree with it, but its there.

Wealth management, people just really appreciate someone to talk to that knows the business and can talk them off a cliff or out of a bad decision like going all in on bitcoin. AI will never do that.

I would never allow a random stranger to walk my home for sale. That's where a Realtor comes in. Some people that move to an area, just want someone nice to talk to and give them some personal insight.

Now, whether or not its worth what they ask is a different story. But what realtor is going to work for $50/ hour and what wealth manager would be paid $250 every time someone wants to have a 15 min phone call?

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If you're interviewing brokers/RIA's, then you're looking in the wrong profession. You need a very good CPA, a tax attorney and probably an estate attorney.

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This. And frankly OP, I don't think you are going to find what you are looking for.

You are looking for someone to basically say "here's how to take your money and get wealthier." That's not really out there. People will say they do it, but they won't. If they were that good at it, they wouldn't be shilling for your business.

You really need a CPA firm with a tax attorney. This is all going to be very expensive, and unless you are talking $10 mil rentals then not worth it financially. If you are just talking $50k a year in rental property income, again just not worth it.

Until you have a CPA on staff or can afford $25,000 or more a year in a CPA/ tax attorney you just aren't going to get much help here if you know what you are doing.

Its mostly going to be looking at what you are currently doing, and how to save and be more efficient moving forward.

Damn, what are the chances you jump right there? Terrible, but also lol

How did DOGE cost $21 billion? I’m confused here?

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Off campus you can always live in the ghetto

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WTF does that mean?

What if your kid wasn’t in school? That’s part of the issue here. We as parents treat our kids like they deserve a nice place to live.

I knew plenty of kids that paid their own way and most of them didn’t walk to campus, they lived in a normal house with 2-3 roommates and drove in. It was cheap as hell. Their house was perfectly normal and not in a ghetto. I’m sure Baton Rouge has plenty of these.

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LSU $100k for 4 years is right. If a parent is just realizing this weeks before the 1st Fall semester, they are in trouble.

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You have to eat and put a roof over your head somehow. Lsu is basically $50k, bullshite, room, and boarding $50k.

I haven’t read everything, but is this just for freshmen and sophomores can live off campus?

Does room and board go down if you aren’t on campus? I gotta hope so

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Literally took the top veneer of of the planks. We are either gonna go back with vinyl or real hardwoods. You can't sand down and repair EHW.

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If they tore apart engineered hardwood they will tear apart vinyl even worse.

It really depends on what wood and your location OP.

I’ll also say this and maybe I’m missing something, but if you keep your house between 68-72 degrees year round and the humidity stays the same around 50% from the HVAC running then how does humidity effect wood floor?