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[Lil Freek]

BUILD YOUR OWN BUSINESS AND DON'T DEPENDS ON YOUR DAD!

My dad has owned a half-dozen businesses over the past 20 years. He is the perfect person to learn from as far as business ownership. I don't learn very well from books. I learn from trial&error and experience.
Although I do intend to eventually take over the restaurant, I do have every intention of starting my own businesses. Assuming the restaurant is reasonably solid after 10 years, it would be a great reliable business to fuel any crazy ideas that I'd want to pursue.

My major problem is that I don't really know WHAT I want to do in life. I am just 22.

Another portion of my inspiration is my older brother. He had the same type of gov't job as me, and 10 months ago he took 1year of leave and moved to British Columbia to learn how to be a mountaineer and extreme tour guide. As long as I've known my brother, I've never seen him as happy as he is now. He makes $8/hour right now, and the most he'll be making is $15/hour this summer. He's just happy not being cooped up in a cubicle with some of the most depressing people to hit the face of the planet.

 

[Alpinejwl]

well...sounds like your mind is pretty made up so good luck!

 

[Lil Freek]

hehehe... I'm REALLY leaning towards accepting it.
It's a great chance for me to get out of the same city i've been in my entire life.

I still have the security of my old job for 1 year, and I get to make actual decisions as a Manager(and 3 free weeks in Calgary for training - woot)

My work is horribly depressing. I've already taken 1 week off on sick leave due to stress from a HORRIBLE situation they stuck me in. I'm 22... I shouldn't have to take stress leave - I'm able to deal with an incredible amount of stress, but there's a limit.

 

[Shane5425]

if its that stressful, go , no job is worth stressing to the point u say u are..
and since u can go back within 12 months, u cant really loose..

 

[laracroft]

And most of us have seen what stress does to government employees.... ie postal workers for example. lol

 

[TX Speed Demon]

TAKE THE JOB!!!!

You have an opportunity here to be set to retire by the time you're 40. You'll never do that at your current job.

 

[Lil Freek]

good point.
At my current job. I have another 32 years of employment until i can retire with 70% of my salary.

 

[TX Speed Demon]

And in 32 years 70% of your salary will not be worth as much as it is now

 

[TX Speed Demon]

You could probably retire even sooner working for your dad. If you put the % of profts you made (say 60K) and lived off your salary, you could work 10 years, compound that interest in investments and retire at 35, living off interest alone and making more money than your current salary.

 

[Lil Freek]

hehehe. yeah.. but my goal isn't to be retired... It's to be rich
I want to live a life where money isn't really an object. Not where I can buy Ferraris and Lambos for all my friends... but where taking a $5000 trip to Asia doesn't really hurt the pocketbook or where I can pay for all of kid's college/university and not be phased by it.

I'm very driven by money. It's my ultimate reward. I enjoy relaxing, but I like to keep busy even more.

 

[Shane5425]

hehehe. yeah.. but my goal isn't to be retired... It's to be rich
I want to live a life where money isn't really an object. Not where I can buy Ferraris and Lambos for all my friends... but where taking a $5000 trip to Asia doesn't really hurt the pocketbook or where I can pay for all of kid's college/university and not be phased by it.

I'm very driven by money. It's my ultimate reward. I enjoy relaxing, but I like to keep busy even more.

or drop 10k more into ur protege and not worry about it... srry had to add it.. lol

 

[Greg S]

Since it sounds liek you've never done management in your lifre just a few points to remember. You don't get to take time off when ever you want, you are always the one who has to stay late, you are always the one who has deal with the headaches and if you think you have stress now just wait. This comes from personal experience as I've been a manager for 9 years and have been relaxing for the past year and a half not being one. And I'm a pretty egotistical person who likes being the one in charge and I thrive off of stress in the work environment.
Just a side note of working for family in the restaurant business, it's sucks. One of my co-workers did it when he was a teen and still helped out his dad recently when his uncle and father's business partner became sick. He hated it adn was very happy when his dad sold the place last month. And this is in a pretty good upscale place with loyal clientel, Vitelo's, and yes that is the place where Robert Blake shot his wife.
If you want to take the chance and you can have a full year off to see if you can stand it then go ahead but just realise the crap that will come with it.

 

[Lil Freek]

I used to manage a computer store when I was 18. I'm well aware of the stress involved. I was also a cook and saw the manager and chef pulling their hair out. I have no problem with that lifestyle. Stress is a good motivator to keep going. It's nothing but challenges to overtake in my eyes.

 

[Greg S]

I used to manage a computer store when I was 18. I'm well aware of the stress involved. I was also a cook and saw the manager and chef pulling their hair out. I have no problem with that lifestyle. Stress is a good motivator to keep going. It's nothing but challenges to overtake in my eyes.

Sounds like you've had a little taste of the life and it hasn't turned you off so go for it and have fun. You've got the great opportunity of a saftey net to fall back on in your current job and really nothing to lose and a lot to gain, even if it's only some life experience.(2thumbs) Good luck.

 

[Katya4me]

Go for it. It sounds like you need to do something other than your current job and this gives you a year to try and find something that makes you happy. Good luck.

 

[reemer99]

Not to be a buzzkill or pessimist but at the young age of 22 with very little schooling, are you really qualified to be a manager of a restaurant?

My guess is no. It really doesn't matter how well the chain of restaurants is doing in an area, the reason the 2 or 3 of them went bankrupt was more than likely poor management. Unless you plan on hiring an extemely knowledgable assistant manager that makes more than you and actually runs the restaurant until you learn how, you are going to have an extremely difficult time with this.

First off, nobody wants to take orders from a 22 year-old and once they learn that it is your dad's restaurant and you have no college degree, they will resent you even more. Second, if you are having a difficult time handling a 40 hr work week, then good luck putting in 70-80 hrs as a manager. Lastly, although you won't be working with your father, he is still the owner and they can always trump any decision a manager intends to make if they don't agree with it and being family will only hieghten the problem.

My advise, keep your job and invest in real estate and make theh monies for yourself and then buy your own restaurant. The easy money is in real estate and the stock market, you just need the knowledge and start up cash.

 

[Lil Freek]

^ well, seeing as you've never met me... I'm not taking offence from those comments.

a little background on me. I've been working since I was 14 in corporate environments. By the time I was 17, I was the lead technician for Taima Corp. (usually granted to those with diplomas and degrees, I was just finishing my high school at that time)
At 18, I start working at a hardware tech. for PC Centre (chain of small computer stores), within a few months I was manager with 6 employees (yes, 1/4 of a restaurant staff, but still)... PC Centre went bankrupt (the corp, not my store) and I went to try my hand at being a cook for a local Italian restaurant for a few months... I left that job to work for Stats Canada, then left that for my current job with Corrections Canada.

My only reasons for not having a diploma/degree is that I've enjoyed making money more than going to school, and I still don't really know what I want to do with myself... some sort of executive level fun, but dunno in what field.

For the Jan/Feb, I was putting in about 70hr workweeks for a job I really dislike. I have no power, and somehow the s*** from the fan always hits me (some of which i deserve, but not all of it).. I've been working an average of 50hrs a week at my lame job since then.

In all honesty.. if people don't want to respect me cuz my dad is the owner, and because I'm young... these are people I have no problem firing. I'm not looking to be the big nasty manager that commands respect, those suck and I've always quit my jobs with stupid managers, and watched the companies eventually tumble into bankruptcy. It's a RESTAURANT, not a boot camp. I know the type of people I'll be hiring, so I have no problem earning their respect while they bum around my restaurant.

edit: don't get me wrong - i'm aware this WILL be a challenge, but in all honesty, if it wasn't, I wouldn't be interested. If something doesn't challenge me on a daily basis, I get bored with it.

 

[Lil Freek]

so i finally went to my bosses and talked to them. i had to postpone leaving for a bit.. but I got my approval to leave on 5weeks vacation starting July 18th, and then start my 1 year Leave Of Absence on August 22nd.

The restaurant is now scheduled to open on August 29th

 

[laracroft]

Your boss probably said "hot damn I thought that kid would NEVER leave!"




jk lol

 

[Lil Freek]

lol... i actually had to meet with my Director General (like 5 levels above me) to ask for my leave. That was something different.