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In reply to the discussion: What's the shortest period of time you've held a job? I quit my consulting gig this morning after [View all]Munificence
(493 posts)3 days!
I quit a very good future in taking over for a business owner that wanted to retire. I personally retired at 40 years of age (I am 42 now) after selling my business that was identical to his for the most part.
Anyway, he had heard about me, still young, laying on my ass getting fat, playing the guitar and hanging out. So he made the proposition to me that he'd like to see if I would come on board, take over his company so that he and his wife could retire. Nice small company doing about $2 million a year in revenue with 13 employees.
After 2.5 days of snooping around it was a no brainer that this "old school" company needed to go at least out of the 1980's and into the new century with computer technology. Done a quick study and we could save around $300k a year by automating the old paper work/job tracking from paper to electronic form.
In the meantime the wife shows up and introduces herself to me, says that they are so happy to have found me and that everything is going to be so great moving forward with their retirement and me running the business. Then almost immediately she says:
"Tell me do you read the bible son". I was nice, told her not in years, but I did use to read it to my grandfather as he had lost his eyesight and still like to hear scripture at 89 years of age (that was 25 yeas ago). I have officially been to church twice in my life but only when I was between the ages of 6-10 as my mother drug me there for Easter on two occasions.
Well the 3 of us meet , and I discuss moving forward with updating the computer systems/software and getting up to speed with today's technology and you would have thought the 4 horsemen were at the door because the first thing she said was "We can't do that". I asked why and she said "We believe that computers are the devils work".
I left that eve and never returned. I turned down a pretty lucrative situation, guaranteed 10% of revenue as salary and as high as 20% based on revenue/profit margins....nope I'd rather slip back onto my couch, pick my guitar and let the world pass me by and enjoy watching my 3 young kids grow up verses being dictated to by "born-a-gainers"..