Comments by "Robert Morgan" (@RobertMorgan) on "I'd Rather Die Than Work A 9-5 | Young Man Has An Awakening" video.

  1.  @Chud-mb7gl  Citation? All the wealthy people I know work like 25 hour days, 8 days a week, 400 days a year, and then some overtime on top of it, WHILE running marathons and bodybuilding, THEN being present for their wife and kids and mistresses. The poor people I know do little to none of that, takes a lot of drive. You have to value yourself enough to deserve that success before you'll be willing to work how it takes for it. That's how I lost 130lbs in 24 months. I finally felt worth the effort.
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  2. That's why my bro in law started his HVAC business, then irony, his SOLE client now is a massive billion dollar corporate power company, but when they have a job, it's a 2500+ billable hour job. His last contract with them is a full-year install job of wall units, the materials alone his cost before their 100% markup was a quarter-million. You call their business number and it goes straight to voicemail with the message we are no longer accepting new customers, if you have an existing service contract please ask to get scheduled, current service wait time is 4-6 months so plan ahead! It's a terrible problem to have to be TOO successful you can't capitalize on it.
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  3.  @mister-x2  here's the caveat with that, DEFINE FAILURE. I'll start, I'm 40, I'm a millionaire, I'm debt free, I'm ready and able to retire, and I feel like a failure because I'm single, never married, and childless. TO ME, success would be having a family, regardless of all that other stuff. Actual love and commitment, your own kids, I can't buy those even if I become a trillionaire, they can only be real if they're FREELY GIVEN to you. So before you start predicting failure, tell me what failure IS. I know insanely wealthy successful people that are called failures all the time.
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  4. OK that's terrifying that nurses like that are SO LACKING in curiosity they refuse to learn how a hospital works. What else are they slacking on? I had a friend who went to Harvard pre-med, Stanford med school, very accomplished, very prestigious, MD. He practiced medicine for one year and transitioned to concentrating on hospital administration, because, he told me, as a Doctor, I can help one person at a time, thousands of times. As the admin of a hospital that HE runs BETTER than it was, he get's to do ONE change, one time, that helps tens of thousands of patients. He's dedicated his life to helping patients, so his goal was to find the fastest, easiest, best way to help the most people in the most amount. That meant giving up his dream of being a practicing physician, so be it.
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  5. Depends on the state, f your boss, skip all that union BS, go take a one week class to get your backflow device testing certification, you now have a license to print money. Find a local city with a mandatory backflow preventer ordnance. Look around, see those HUNDRED THOUSAND HOUSES over there, EVERY ONE needs their backflow preventer certified YEARLY by YOU, for $50 a shot, and the job takes 10 minutes. If I wasn't running a water treatment plant I'd be doing that right now. I've known guys that had that as their sole business, on their own, $100k cash a year with like $3k startup.
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  6. Let me give you an example: In my water plant, I have a backflow preventer, massive one, but testing it is the same as any other, same equipment. We have a contracted tester certify ours every year, he's here 20 minutes with 10 minutes of shooting the shit, he charges us $300 for that. PER BUILDING. For all I know he's doing 10 of those jobs a day every day.
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  7. Your boss has sympathy for you, you can't have any for your employees when you're your own boss.
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  8. I work in Missouri USA for a municipal employer, I get 160 hours a year of vacation, with 140 I can carryover. Last year I got in trouble for having 212 hours of vacation time OVER my base 160, so I had like 370-ish hours, 48 days, and I had to use them in 6 months, BUT, BUT I had no one to cover my shifts AND my being gone could not affect operations because I'm the department head. So instead of taking days off which I could not do, I had to reduce to 4 days a week, and 6 hours each day, and REALLY work f-ing HARD to get my 10 hour shift worth of work done in that 6 hours. It was actually more stressful. I had asked they just cash in all that time and cut me a check for it, but no, it's a BENEFIT, not compensation, you have to USE it. Sigh.
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  9. That's where you have to start getting agnostic about the job and the money. Example: Policing, pays $24/hr, somewhat valued, somewhat liked, lots of risks, lots of stress. Cashier at Target, Pays $21/hr, zero stress, zero people trying to kill you daily, little responsibility, you're not hated lol. At that point you have to ask, is all that comes with that extra $3/hr worth all that for that $3/hr. Hell no usually. What if a job shoveling shit all day at toilets offers you $30/hr, should you take it? Objectively hell yes. It's not a prestigious job, but fun fact, I tried, they can't do shit with likeable or prestigious or fulfilling at the bank. I can't buy stocks from my broker with accolades. The purpose of working is the MONEY.
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  10. it's perfectly possible he works that wage slave job he hates forever WHICH MAKES HIM really successful. Many people only fail because they refused to keep failing long enough to succeed.
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  11. When you said experience I thought you were going to say stay in your job for a few years so you could claim experience, not go have experiences. I'm 40, if I was 30 today I'd cut my expenses and spending to the bone, put every spare penny into certain funds, and next week on my 41st I'd be retiring on a few grand a month free dividend income.
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  12. Municipal employer, they pay 100% contribution to my state retirement, which is FULL retirement at 20 years, I'm 10 in, and they 100% cover my health insurance no matter what it costs. I have older coworkers who's insurance costs the city more than they make in salary, so it's a great deal. I'm at the midpoint on my pension, I can still take a lump sum deal where they REFUND every penny my employer has paid in to me. I lose my future payouts but I get all my money NOW, which would be great for some dividend investing.
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  13. A JOB yes, a CAREER no. The problem with people today is their idea of long term is measured in months instead of decades. Also, why create jobs when I can just keep that money, in case for whatever reason I need a job later lol?
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