Appraisers' Free Forum

**skibs** · Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 9:46 pm Post subject:

Income potential is always higher in sales than in operations. Always.
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**Steve Owen** · Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2007 9:48 am Post subject:

The key word is "potential." I made more money selling insurance than I do appraising... but, I worked 80+ hours a week.
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Mako · Member Joined: 11 Aug 2007 Posts: 849

We're not living up to anywhere near our potential.

I'm basically lazy and just like to have fun. Working never made me a lot of money anyway, and I don't believe it builds character.
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**Otis** · Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 8:48 pm Post subject:

Mako · Member Joined: 11 Aug 2007 Posts: 849

Snaglepus - "Exit stage right" (we're dating ourselves).

I don't consider what I do work, but I make FAR MORE than I ever did appraising.

I use what I learned appraising to make money, but when I was appraising I never made as much money as I do now.

My Dear Ole Pappy use to tell me, "work hard & be honest & you'll go far." He was wrong shrug

There's a new ingredient to that recipe...it's "work smart."
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**Steve Owen** · Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 11:43 pm Post subject:

DB · Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 11:53 pm Post subject:

I was also raised with the "Work hard, be honest, keep your nose to the grindstone and you will go far" mentality ... and I have worked it ... and worked it ... and worked it ... and all I have gotten is tired and farther behind ... I am not sure when things changed ... but what I want to know is WHY things changed ...

I see people on welfare driving nicer cards than mine ... I see people who can't speak English, who live in hovels with 15 other people, but driver bigger and nicer vehicles than mine ... I see other people who can't speak English, living in fine, big houses and driving nice cars and sending their kids to private schools .... and they are home at 3:00 in the afternoon ... I work until after midnight, 6 days a week ... remodeling houses in the daylight and writing up appraisals at night and I am STILL in the hole trying to dig out .... so when and WHY did working hard and being honest become a hinderance to being successful??
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**Steve Owen** · Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2007 12:09 am Post subject:

**skibs** · Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2007 9:05 am Post subject:

Someone once said that the problem with a democracy is that the people will eventually vote to help themselves to the national treasury.
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**Steve Owen** · Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2007 9:39 am Post subject:

I believe that was Alexis De Toquerville (sp?) who said something along the lines of: "American democracy will only endure until politicians discover that they can buy people's votes with their own money." The quote is not exactly right and I don't have time to look it up right now, but you get the jist of it.
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Mako · Member Joined: 11 Aug 2007 Posts: 849

Now that I re-read my post...I shouldn't have said, 'basically I'm lazy.'

In fact I'm not lazy...I just hate and refuse to toil for peanuts. We've worked & studied very hard to get to where we're at.

It's just that I don't feel hard work & honesty alone is the path to wealth in today's society. Hard work & honesty at pauper's wages doesn't build character...it builds resentment.