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11月30日 Do Your Own Thing, Baby! Do it!I woke up feeling fantastic today....something unusual for me, lately.
Wednesday, I took Ying Ying to Dallas to catch a plane back to Shanghai. Her father is in the hospital with cancer. Sucks! His prognosis is good, however.
The interviews I had lined up were disappointing...sucks!
The guys I just popped in to see, on the other hand, were cool....Harley Davidson in Austin...BMW.... But, let's get real for a minute (don't you just hate getting real?). Nobody wants to hire anyone anymore in the US, unless that person can make them a lot of money right away. Bottom line. They wind up treating you like shit in the interview...like a Mexican mohado (wetback, who just swam across the Rio Grande river into Texas), with nothing but a good couple of hands to work with and a willingness to bow down to these assholes.
There is an answer to all of this: Start your own thing. Don't I always say this? Of course I do! And, don't forget it!!!
Well, back to the feeling good stuff... I feel good this morning for couple of reasons: one, I'm free and single, so I don't have some girl griping at me all the time and telling me to do this or that....or to take responsibility...or to stop saying this...or 'why do you always'.....whatever. Another reason is, I slept well (that goes a long way by itself).
Basically, I woke up with a smile on my face. It means a lot!
I went in, made some coffee, noticed my brother is still in bed (he must be taking a well-deserved day off), and came in to sit at this old laptop to submit this relentless diatribe of profound wisdom. Aren't you glad?
Nevertheless I'm feeling great! Why?
Freedom, baby! Freedom!
The freedom from all the noise in the Chinese f****ing streets....the people on bicycles with their freakin' bullhorns....the busses, the subways.....the f***ing street guards....bosses....women with agendas.... Yeah...women with agendas!
The most important thing in life...bar none...is freedom to do and to say whatever your superior, superfluous, reduced-synaptic-firing, peanut-of-a-brain comes up with.
It feels good.
Same thing with these asshole dork-dongle, hiring-freak-ass managers who don't want to pay anything for your valuable, bust-ass, balls-to-the-wall, hard-earned education and experience. F**k them!
Here's Speed's T-Shirt saying of the day....DO YOUR OWN THING, BABY!
l love all you wonderful people who read this stuff! Ted
11月20日 Things Start Coming Together...But, Where?Well, you never know unless you try.
Tomorrow is an interview with BMW....a dealer. We'll see what's going on there.
11月13日 SurvivalTrying to survive is difficult, and I'm not sure why.
With all of the people out there, you would think it would be easy. I think the answer to old Maslow's Hierarchy is right before our very eyes, and we fail to recognize the best solution for ourselves many times.
Most of the time, the needs overshadow the wants and you do what you don't want to do. Sad, isn't it? 11月6日 Old ideas and new businesses....the Chinese in AmericaToday, in LA, I met a Chinese guy from Nanjing who has started a business, selling Closed-Circuit TVs, business phone systems, and alarm systems for houses. All of the these things are very old and mature in the market, and there is a lot of competition. He wanted a sales guy to go knock on doors. Haha....what orientation is that? Sales orientation. He is already getting orders from advertising, but he still insists on getting commissioned sales people. "CD, DVD, watch?"
Crazy.
My favorite motorcycle store is closed.
Gone.
Sad.
The California Speed Shop is now history . AHH, but now it may live on, because I want to use that name. It's the name I had for my company in Texas, believe it or not, and I think I'll name my corporation that now.
Somehow, maybe it's blessing in disquise that Will Tate shut the store down. It's legacy may once again speed toward the future generations of speed lovers everywhere. This time, under my leadership.
But, let's never forget one of the great motorcyclists, teachers, and store owners: Will Tate of The California Speedshop. His picture will hang on my wall and my website. A legend.
11月5日 Evaluating Businesses in AmericaTwo businesses seem to be the most appealing to me in America: the services contractor and the car/motorcycle dealership. I'm exploring them both. Of the two, the car dealership has become more difficult to obtain, because the state of Texas has split the licenses into different categories, each of them costing $500 dollars, so a motorcycle dealership license costs $500, the same as the car dealership license, making it a solid $1,000 for both.
I'll be talking to a guy in the building business this week in Austin, Texas. The car dealership I already know a great deal about. It's all a matter of money and negotiating deals now.
11月1日 New opportunitiesLast night a guy in China called and wants me to rep his products in America, along with Ying Ying for the Chinese. A consideration, since he's paying up front for some services.
Next, another guy wants to partner with me on website marketing. He's already a webmaster. We're searching for sites to buy that are already popular. It's always better to buy a company that's making it fairly well rather than bust your butt trying to get a new one going, that is, if it's cheap enough.
That's the news!
Sadly, I'm on a plane in 23 more hours to spend the next 12 hours in the air. Next stop: Los Angeles, where I pick up a rental car, which I rented for only $80 for 3 days. Then, on to the hotel next to Disneyland, which happens to be cheap! You never know!
I'm ging to talk to a video game retail store owner, a woman believe it or not, to talk about me being the manager of that store and maybe opening up others for her. Then, to talk to a Chinese guy about the satellite TV dish installations business.
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