Do you actively pursue your dreams?

Perfextionist420 said:

I'm 21 and living my dream, have managed to build my own business brokering glass to head shops and am hoping to be semi retired at 23 then its really just what do I want to do with the rest of my time - probably a lot of grass, good music and travel

after contemplating for months I'm giving my 2 weeks notice at my desk job on monday and hiring an accountant to manage my business money and start paying taxes

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Is this residual income coming in from the brokering? That must be some serious income coming in for you to bold enough to say you want to "retire" at 23. Good for you nonetheless.

see4 said:

Is this residual income coming in from the brokering? That must be some serious income coming in for you to bold enough to say you want to "retire" at 23. Good for you nonetheless.

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i have a lot of friends who are glass blowers that are trying to make a living from it, most of the stuff I sell are small pipes and chillums mass produced, a case of glass is 100 pieces. I purchase cases for 500-800 depending on the type of piece and work and turn around and sell them to the shops at a 50% mark up.

example, primal ordered 2 cases this week of straight chillums varied colors with tooth notches. I tasked two of my guys to do a case each and paid 600 per case which I turned around and sold for 950 a case to the shop, the shop is paying 9.50 for the pipe they turn around and sell for 20-25

I make roughly 50% mark up usually 300-500 a case and work with 6 shops. had 7 cases of orders this week, in a slow week ill make 800 bucks and in my best week over 5k but I've had a steady increase in business and have been getting increased orders and referrals. you place an order and I get you your glass within a week from raw matter to finished pipe on the shelf

Perfextionist420 said:

i have a lot of friends who are glass blowers that are trying to make a living from it, most of the stuff I sell are small pipes and chillums mass produced, a case of glass is 100 pieces. I purchase cases for 500-800 depending on the type of piece and work and turn around and sell them to the shops at a 50% mark up.

example, primal ordered 2 cases this week of straight chillums varied colors with tooth notches. I tasked two of my guys to do a case each and paid 600 per case which I turned around and sold for 950 a case to the shop, the shop is paying 9.50 for the pipe they turn around and sell for 20-25

I make roughly 50% mark up usually 300-500 a case and work with 6 shops. had 7 cases of orders this week, in a slow week ill make 800 bucks and in my best week over 5k but I've had a steady increase in business and have been getting increased orders and referrals. you place an order and I get you your glass within a week from raw matter to finished pipe on the shelf

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Good for you dude. Way to take initiative and balls to get that going. Not many people can stay they are successfully running a business. Props to all that are. I've yet to take that leap, and I really want to.

see4 said:

Dreams...

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Is she giving a ghost a handy or what's going on here. Is that what she don't have time for?

see4 said:

Good for you dude. Way to take initiative and balls to get that going. Not many people can stay they are successfully running a business. Props to all that are. I've yet to take that leap, and I really want to.

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you can do it man I'm just a capitalist, been working since I was 14 and always thinking of new ways to make money. working for a company or someone is literally just that. working for them, not for you, at the end of the day they're sitting on their ass making more than you

Here in Seattle they sell these little glass pipes for $1.99, but when I lived in MD, the cheapest were $20 for shitty glass ones. I've thought about bringing a box out when I go visit family and sell them for $3-$5 10 or more at a time....

I used to make wooden pipes that looked exactly like cigars, I'd position them so the grain wrapped around in a spiral and looked exactly like tobacco leaves...but the wood burned if you smoked it a lot and would make your throat raw if you smoked on it all day long. But for sneaking a toke in public or while driving it was great. I used white oak and with a natural oil finish that made it a light brown and you literally couldn't tell it from a real cigar. The inspiration was my woodworking uncle was making a big ass wood pipe, and as we were testing it out I was like damn what if you just cut the end off and used the stem only, it would look like a cigar....fucking love the ideas you come up with when you're high.

My dream is to make games and interactive media. I've been using a game engine for 3+ years, I've learned a ton and picked up 3d modeling with blender(cause it's free) or 3ds max(student version). I have half a dozen decent prototypes, it's a lot of fun dreaming up ideas, planning them out, and making them happen. Even stupid silly shit. It's a lot more fun than playing games.

I was disabled for 6 months last year and couldn't use my eye and still have crazy facial pain, but I got better meds and am back to making them.

Eventually I just want to go to Costa Rica and make them while enjoying life where it doesn't take a lot of money to live. Right now I'm finishing up college and work as a subcontractor finishing sheetrock for around $30/hr but part time.

I've done so many things, one company I started dismantled barns and sold the lumber. When I was in middle school we moved from san diego to amish country ohio. I have some amish friends I spent years going fishing/hunting with that hooked me up with deals on lumber from their relative's sawmills, even fronted me lumber to resell here in Seattle. That was another passion of mine was buying logs and cutting them into slabs for tables, gorgeous figured shit. Takes a year per inch thickness to cure the lumber naturally though which ends you sell most of it kiln dried and keep some for yourself you air dry.
Here's a burl I bought for $75, rubbed snow on it to wet it for the picture, sold a couple pieces of it for $600 each after shipping it to the west coast

My girlfriend makes almost 6 figures in PR but wants to be a young adult writer, so we talk about switching to a different lifestyle where we can just do what we really want to do. I wouldn't mind being a teacher in the 3rd world, helping kids get into 3d modeling and programming by starting a computer lab, desktops are cheap for us, especially used ones that are fine for what I need them for. I like showing people stuff that I find enjoyable.

" im sick of following my dreams man im just gonna ask where theyre going and hook up with em later". Mitch hedburg.

I suppose I've got a pretty interesting story of what some would call success.. I at least fulfilled my dreams.

At age 16 I was kicked out of my house and school from doing typical stupid teenage shit. Things were looking pretty grim at that point in my life, not much for a future. I always played music and that was my dream and goal to be successful with it.

So after I was kicked out, I moved and found a band. My band got signed within a year of being together. We have put out 3 studio albums, available in any store. We've toured all over the world including Europe, Australia, Japan, Mexico and every state in the US at least 5 times. Put out a few music videos, that continue to get air play on TV. I did the band thing for over 5 years, till I started to get a bit burnt out on touring (we were on tour 9 months out of the year for 5 years strait).

Towards the end of our career, I developed an iPhone app for bands. This has been a rewarding accomplishment for me.

And now I manage a successful garden nursery and landscaping business that has been around since 1974. I will be taking over the business when my boss retires in a few years (Owning a nursery was my long term goal for post-band).

I'm happily married, with two dogs and a garden nursery. I grow bud for the wife and I, and grow other plants for a living. Might not be everyones dream, but it couldn't have turned out better for my individual tastes .

I've got a dog, a couple of gardens, I live in a beautiful place with access to some of the most beautiful natural environments out there, making more than enough to get by... I'd say I'm doing pretty well. It's all about the present moment.

mamakush said:

I've got a dog, a couple of gardens, I live in a beautiful place with access to some of the most beautiful natural environments out there, making more than enough to get by... I'd say I'm doing pretty well. It's all about the present moment.

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Sounds like we have similar ideas of the good life

I always pursue my dreams. I have enough dreams for more than a lifetime.

But then again i met several people and understood that there is beauty in routine, family and small accomplishments.

There used to be a graffiti close to my house that said "Maturity is to find beauty in the simple, small things."