dude brad, that's really sad to hear. i hope it all sorts out man.
you are a major driving force behind this club, and everyone here is grateful for your efforts and wissdom.

hope it gets better

aaron

That driving force is worn out. I have no more energy for it. The club needs guidance and I cant give it right now. We need to implement 2-3 different pieces and there is no one to pull the trigger. My view of succes for the club site is blurred right now. It was clear a year or so ago.

Thanks for the kind words Aaron. The *people* have kept me going. The payoff however is not really there anymore (I dont mean money). The actual satisfaction of 914 related activities is waning.



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Brad, man this sounds scary... If you need anything I'll help you however I can.

When the fun is gone, no doubt- quit and get a "real job" thats what I promise myself that I will do if it ever happens to me. At the rate I am going (9 hours of sleep this entire week, and I'm not even tired) I will have to slow down after the next and final growth of my business.

One more year of 18 hour days and thats it for me, then things slow way down and the prices go up drastically and I go back to a one man shop, and a slightly different approach.

Brad, call me-please.. I'll be up till 0400 working on my damn website. Hell come work for me, no cars in my shop- all you need is a torque wrench, and a set of mikes.

I can help find you a new job, Brad. Steady paycheck, exciting travel, guaranteed 3 meals a day, and somewhere to sleep (usually).

-Rusty

P.S. If I didn't have a son, my dream job would be to work as a divemaster at a resort somewhere. Maybe even buy my own boat someday.

The wife went to bed crying with the pain, even though she took a 222 and an anti-inflamatory the doc gave her.
She doesn't want to go back to the hospital just to be told that it's "woman problems".
I've only seen her cry a couple of times (i.e. childbirth) in my 18yrs with her.
She is no hypochondriac.


Brad, although I don't even know >1% of what happened at the "failed purchase", I can just imagine (BTDT many moons ago) that the whole issue totally blows. Financial hardship can be a real strain on any relationship, even the best.

Fixing these old cars is a PITA. This thread started (partly) over a 3 to 4 day laugher that turned into a three-week nightmare. A nice piece of coin turned into a total fucking loser and now I have other customers who are pissed off, because all of their jobs are now late. Also not to mention dealing with some of the total cheap ass, freebee expecting, customers that just piss you right off.

For example take electrical problems...I won't even touch them anymore. How do you charge for chasing an electrical gremlin for 2 days and in the end you still haven't found the problem?


P.S. I'd be an admin Brad...as long as I can have the spring, summer, fall and most of the winter off.

12 hours a day for the next month straight. Ain't assembly line work great. Oh well it will be over for 9 months when school starts.

Brad, keep your head up man, it will get better. You have the attitude that will get you something good soon.

Brad you need to come to work for me.... then you could fix my 914 in your spare time. Do you know anything about the forging business . Not sure you could hack the weather here, but our COL is a hell of a lot better

Ya know people always say things happen for a reason, I know it is an over-used phrase. I truely believe it.

I recently almost lost everthing "good" in my life. My wife to illness (she's fine now), my business and financial life was in the crapper as well as it seemed a million other things at one time. Just as it seemed at the worst a few fortunate things happened and viola things are better.... not all the way but it's coming around. Another trite comment is you never appreciate what you have until it's gone.

So again how **really** bad was this week. I'll bet in the grand scheme of things it really wasn't all that.

Cheer up guys, there will be better days