Anyone thrown in the towel?
Posted By: ...... on 2007-09-03
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Has anyone here who has run a successful business thought about -- or already has -- closed the doors after hitting too many rough spots?
I'm talking about people like me who pay rent, pay lawyers, pay staffers, pay freelancers, pay... well, pay everyone first and pay yourself last.
If you think you get paid first as a business owner, please don't reply.
I want to hear from people who have lost too many accounts, been sued, partners or employees stole from you, rents too high, revenue too low, getting too old, etc.
I'd like to hear what would push you over the edge to quit, or if you have quit, I'd like to know what you're doing now and how you feel about "working for someone else". Yes, I know you're always working for someone else.
But now you don't have to pay the bills, fix the computers, put up with childish and inexperienced workers, non-paying clients, etc.
Yes, as you can tell, I'm thinking about calling it quits and taking the easy way out: taking a staff job with benefits.
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I have thrown in the towel with kids, grandchildren
Know this sounds harsh but I just got tired of trying. I am the kid's paternal grandmother and never came close to the love and affection they showered on their maternal one even though I tried and tried. They were taken as small infants mostly to her home and I came in a far second even though we lived close by one another. They are now 16 and 18 and I rarely see or talk with them and I have a wonderful life and it really doesn't bother me anymore like it once did. Such are the facts of life. My son (their father) apparently was engulfed by the other side and did not stand up for me. That is life. I just wish them well.
And you can get thrown off this board for just what you said a minute ago
that being correcting me about how I structured a sentence. I was talking about a situation outside of this board and outside of work this morning and you are calling someone to task about my being rude? In a nice way I can correct and usually do. I can see where your name comes from.
Ladies, just a joke, some humor thrown into a mostly unfulfilling job we do
I thought we were all adults here. I know others have experienced similar things and if I offended you, then I apologize. I find nothing that I posted risque and things I have seen on here much more unprofessional than this. Such simple things as hanging clothing out on clothes lines wind up in people being uncivil to others. If the moderator finds it offensive, then they can take it down. I have no problem with what I said and sorry if you do. Life happens and this was just things I thought of in mine.
Maybe if she sees the baby, she'll decide not to have it sucked out of her and thrown away like t
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The paper towel commercial...
with the kid shaking the soda bottle that explodes all over the kitchen and his mom grabs the hose from the sink and sprays him back. What an example for all the little kids watching TV! 
I personally like the Geico cavemen. They crack me up everytime. But I don't think they need a TV show based on them. That's too much.
yes, you can practice by trying to pick up a towel (sm)
with your toes. Rather than doing the bending back and stretching, which I eventually started to think was actually aggravating my fasciitis, bend your toes under like you are going to pick something up with your foot.
I didn't take HRT (my choice) and I sleep on a towel
Started menopause at 42....took like 10 years....but the sweats at night never do stop for some of us (my GYN tells me he still has an 80 y/o patient who calls him and says she still has night sweats) and I feel I'm probably one of those people.......sleeping on a big towel protects the sheets from having to DO THEM EVERYDAY (laundry). *LOL*
Happy menopause ladies!!!
throw a blanket or towel over it and then shuffle it out nm
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Ha! me too (petticoat veils), and a towel for playing Nuns! NM
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would love to slap more than a dish towel on his head!!!
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