The New “What did you do with your Z today” (with off topic replies)

MZ DAIZY

Some people just think they're smarter than everyone else. ::Cough:: LIBERALS ::Cough::

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vtec to vvel

One helluva ride at 32 years

If you could go back in time to yourself when you first started the business, what one piece of advice would you give? Same question to Rusty as well

And I wish the later Millennials and after, esp. Gen Z, would grasp onto the concept of hard work. The younger generation doesn't seem to want to lift a finger but demand respect and results. I know it's not fair to say all of them, but the ones I encountered seem to have this common mentality. I will say with the rise in social media, the smart ones have found a way to become multi-millionaires just from posting content and have a sh!tload of subscribers. Can you imagine if they went back in time and actually had to put in real effort and real work?

Rusty

Morning

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Rusty

Piece of advice.......start saving for retirement at a very early age. Don't count on anyone to help you out.

With the internet and social media is when all of this bull crap started.

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sx moneypit

Spooler

We don't get to retire these days. We will have to work until our ten toes turn up.

MZ DAIZY

You kids today got it easy! Get off my lawn!

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Spooler

LOL, I am 56. I will be working for as long as I can. I won't make the same mistake my other coworkers have. Get mad and then retire early. Seen it too many times. It cost money to have fun. I have been so busy over the last 25yrs I can't sit around and do nothing. I am constantly learning new things and I enjoy it.

Rusty

I retired early at the age of 60. Partly because of past family health history. Didn't know if I would follow my dad's side or my mom's side. Looking back, I could/should have retired at 65. But I didn't think i would last at the plant power because of the new company. They were making things tough on the older guys. I had 7 weeks of vacation time and 520 hrs of sick time every year for the last 5 yrs there. If I would have stayed for another 2 yrs. i would have picked up another week of vacation. They don't like those kind of benefits.

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MZ DAIZY

Great advice I wish I'd followed! Time goes by faster than you think.

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MZ DAIZY

If i had to do it over I'd go with less employees. Keep the business lean and mean. Employees are expensive. When tough times hit, (and they did) a lot out people overextended went belly up.

Chasing dollars to make payroll sucks big time. Another problem i had was accounts recieveable. It was industry standard in printing back then to give customers unsecured credit. I was constantly on the phone chasing my money. Over 32 years I was probably stiffed for over $750,000. The couple of guys left today doing what I did take Credit Cards and get paid in advance.

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MZ DAIZY

I always liked Hoovies you tube channel until recently. He just bought a Buggatti that he claims costs him $40,000 a month. I can pay off my house in 6 months! He did this whole epside whining about how his tax bill was $500,000 more than he expected.

Bruh, taxes suck, but if you owe $500,000 MORE than you thought, you're doing ok. Maybe it's part jealousy, but he's become a clown with too much easy money doing nothing.

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Rusty

More money than brains.

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vtec to vvel

Good advice, and wifey said the same thing about retirement funds. Not going to lie, this isn't something that I really pay attention to, but wifey has taken the liberty and created a retirement portfolio a while back. I honestly have no idea what I'm looking at and leave it up to her.

Honestly, if the past 3 months are a preview of retirement, then I'm probably not going to. It's been super boring, even if I try to find stuff to do. I've gotten to a point where I have my old team call me incognito and I help them out with their work.

Yeah, that would be frustrating. Were you able to place liens on their businesses for non-payment?

MZ DAIZY

No leins. The only thing I could do was drag them into court get a judgement for something like $50 a month for 20 years or until they go chapter 11.

The only people that made out were the lawyer and the person who stiffed me.

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