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Posted: 8/13/2017 4:14:49 PM EDT

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The middle man stuff isn't really obscure, i mean thats homeadvisors business model. you want a new roof and every company they "list" has paid to get your info. In fact, they have the sleaziest model of them all as big companies just pay for "blocks" of info and cold call from them even if you didn't chose them from a list. They literally make money by selling your info that you gave them for free lol.

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With middleman jobs, it isn't the jobs that make them the money, it's their individual skill/intuition.

Everyone complains about middlemen... but not everyone can do that kind of work.

Combination skill, luck, and effort. Or more like effort, skill, and luck, in that order of importance.

Posted: 8/13/2017 4:15:13 PM EDT

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Don't tell anyone, I'm working on the next big thing...dehydrated water!!!!!

Posted: 8/13/2017 4:21:10 PM EDT

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Don't tell anyone, I'm working on the next big thing...dehydrated water!!!!!

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I'm working on instant, freeze dried water packaged in a mason jar. Just add water and stir.

Posted: 8/13/2017 4:21:48 PM EDT

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With middleman jobs, it isn't the jobs that make them the money, it's their individual skill/intuition.

Everyone complains about middlemen... but not everyone can do that kind of work.

Combination skill, luck, and effort. Or more like effort, skill, and luck, in that order of importance.

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Oh i agree, I know of one person that started that type of business because they "knew" a lot of people. He would constantly be in interaction with people that needed X to be done and they would all give him a cut. He just went on to make a business out of it. I worked for a company that paid 10% finders fee for work referrals for its employees.

Posted: 8/13/2017 4:22:27 PM EDT

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I'm a professional problem solver. I don't have a specialty and can and do solve all types of problems. It's me and two other guys. Pretty lucrative gig but it's not something you can really learn in school. I started figuring out how things worked when I was about 8 years old. I never stopped trying to figure things out.

My secret... I'm typically the dumbest guy in the room and I'm not afraid to say it. I ask the stupid questions everyone else is scared to ask. It's not what you know that makes you good at this, it's the type of questions you know to ask. Me and the other two bust each other so hard for "faulty logic" during internal discussions it's like we have a super power now. Most people don't appreciate being called out for bad logic.

Posted: 8/13/2017 4:28:35 PM EDT

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I'm a professional problem solver. I don't have a specialty and can and do solve all types of problems. It's me and two other guys. Pretty lucrative gig but it's not something you can really learn in school. I started figuring out how things worked when I was about 8 years old. I never stopped trying to figure things out.

My secret... I'm typically the dumbest guy in the room and I'm not afraid to say it. I ask the stupid questions everyone else is scared to ask. It's not what you know that makes you good at this, it's the type of questions you know to ask. Me and the other two bust each other so hard for "faulty logic" during internal discussions it's like we have a super power now. Most people don't appreciate being called out for bad logic.

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thats sounds like a lot of fun. very cool.

Posted: 8/13/2017 4:29:21 PM EDT

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How much are you talking? Five six hundred a day?

Maybe so if that counts

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I help a guy do plumbing and we do three to five $100-200 jobs a day.

slow day $300 good day $800

I help him for $10 a hour because I am retired and he buys lunch, we work from 0830-1300

Pull a pump change a foot valve or wires $200 plus parts(1 hour job)

Replace a faucet $80-100 plus parts(30 min job)

fix a broke pipe ($80-150).

you make your own hours and charge double on weekends.

water line leaks are the hardest work dig a hold patch the line fill hole($100-200)

I can find a leak and have the line dug and ready to patch in 30 mins.

I used to laugh at plumbers but he pulls in $6-8k a month working 4-5 hours a day five days a week.

His only expense is $1000 a month to me, and his truck/gas.

Easist job I have ever had honestly and since he is 62 I might buy him out when he retires.

Sounds weird but I enjoy it.

Posted: 8/13/2017 4:37:24 PM EDT

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Going around and finding abandoned truck loads.

Co-worker's husband spends half his time doing fleet safety, DOT stuff for a company and when he gets the called go finds trucks loads that the driver dropped off for whatever reason. Usually drugs or trouble with the law.

Posted: 8/13/2017 4:43:11 PM EDT

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Reselling Hello Kitty: Hello Kitty Hell

Keep in mind, this isn't the store site. I'm not even sure he links to it... this is just his blog to complain about Hello Kitty.

Apparently when buying a house in Japan (they are very expensive after all), he made the mistake of suggesting to his wife that she take any hobby she likes and they "could make it into a money making venture."

Now the home is HK everywhere. Even the toilet room.

Posted: 8/13/2017 4:48:21 PM EDT

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reselling vegetable oil as gun oil for 5000% profit.....

Posted: 8/13/2017 4:52:44 PM EDT

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The guy I used to work for made 14+million plowing snow and took off fishing all summer.

I started doing snow removal when my personal Landscape business was not working due to winter months a few years back.

We're on the verge of landing some freaking awesome snow contracts (200k +)Last year was a mild as hell winter and we get paid regardless.( we plowed 6 times total last year) I wish I would have bought equipment and got serious sooner. One guy in a truck can make 100k in 5 months moving snow here in the northeast. Half that time is spent sleeping in or tinkering in the shop.

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interesting. i'm up in the NE as well, had no idea there was that much money in damn snow removal

Posted: 8/13/2017 4:55:22 PM EDT

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I'm a professional problem solver. I don't have a specialty and can and do solve all types of problems. It's me and two other guys. Pretty lucrative gig but it's not something you can really learn in school. I started figuring out how things worked when I was about 8 years old. I never stopped trying to figure things out.

My secret... I'm typically the dumbest guy in the room and I'm not afraid to say it. I ask the stupid questions everyone else is scared to ask. It's not what you know that makes you good at this, it's the type of questions you know to ask. Me and the other two bust each other so hard for "faulty logic" during internal discussions it's like we have a super power now. Most people don't appreciate being called out for bad logic.

thats sounds like a lot of fun. very cool.

Thanks, it's a really cool gig. It's a educational experience every single day. That said, it's not hard. Once you figure out HOW to think, not what to think, it's rather methodical.

Posted: 8/13/2017 4:57:18 PM EDT

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East coast and west coast cops. $100K with no overtime. pretty much unlimited overtime if they want it. can easily make $130K working two extra days a month. $200K is doable if you don't have a social life.

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maybe in like LA, NYC, etc

i'll eat my damn shoe if a cop in Portsmouth, NH is making $100k with no overtime

Posted: 8/13/2017 5:04:09 PM EDT

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-my good friends mom has her own business (shes the one and only employee), she is essentially the middle man between a large national corporation and contractors when their offices need work done. EX.) ARF Corp needs a toilet fixed, they call this lady, she calls a plumber and makes sure the job gets done, then bills ARF Corp for service charge +20%...last year she made over $1 million dollars working from her kitchen table with a computer and phone

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I have started dabbling with this on the side with places that I have gotten into Electrically. Basically its a bit of a prime contractor role. Larger corporations need work done and require a ton of paperwork. I already have MSA's with a few places and they just say "hey can you take care of this?". You bet your ass!

An example is a few weeks ago a power generation plant I am working at needed some fence/rock/mowing work before a big meeting. I contacted a fence guy, rock guy, and a landscaper. I won't go into specific numbers but it was a mile of fence with a bunch of work on both sides. My cost was around $70,000 to my subs and I am billing the customer $130,000. It has a 90 day turn around so I have been broke as fuck lately but it will turn out. I got enough up front on PO issuance to cover a decent amount of my sub cost.

It was a weeks worth of work, but the reason I got it was because #1 I had the MSA in place, and #2 I said yeah, why the fuck not! They could have easily done it themselves but they don't have a landscaper, rock guy, or fence guy on any sort of MSA.

It is my ultimate goal to go completely into this as I hate doing Electrical work because the workforce out there is a real shit show.

Posted: 8/13/2017 5:05:48 PM EDT

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PorkChopsForHire just had a thread about dudes making money jerking off on the internet.

That's pretty fucking esoteric.

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and if you used 3 cameras instead of 1, each from a different angle, you're recording 3 movies for the effort of one. You just tripled your production!

Posted: 8/13/2017 5:06:50 PM EDT

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Facilities Maintenace salesman.

Posted: 8/13/2017 5:07:28 PM EDT

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I help a guy do plumbing and we do three to five $100-200 jobs a day.
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Sounds weird but I enjoy it.

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gives you something to do in retirement.

And lots of pornos involve plumbers.

LOTS of them.

Posted: 8/13/2017 5:11:12 PM EDT

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I'm retired but I fell into this part time. I go out and inspect commercial vehicles that have been involved in an accident of some kind. I look for things to determine what the factors were to cause the accident, whether it may be driver error, vehicle defect, lack of vehicle maintenance, road conditions, mother nature, or oh shit, bad timing. I work for a consulting firm, so I really don't deal with lawyers unless I get deposed or I have to testify. I make between $800.00 - $1,500.00 per day. I've already made $6,000.00 this month.

Posted: 8/13/2017 5:17:18 PM EDT

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I have started dabbling with this on the side with places that I have gotten into Electrically. Basically its a bit of a prime contractor role. Larger corporations need work done and require a ton of paperwork. I already have MSA's with a few places and they just say "hey can you take care of this?". You bet your ass!

An example is a few weeks ago a power generation plant I am working at needed some fence/rock/mowing work before a big meeting. I contacted a fence guy, rock guy, and a landscaper. I won't go into specific numbers but it was a mile of fence with a bunch of work on both sides. My cost was around $70,000 to my subs and I am billing the customer $130,000. It has a 90 day turn around so I have been broke as fuck lately but it will turn out. I got enough up front on PO issuance to cover a decent amount of my sub cost.

It was a weeks worth of work, but the reason I got it was because #1 I had the MSA in place, and #2 I said yeah, why the fuck not! They could have easily done it themselves but they don't have a landscaper, rock guy, or fence guy on any sort of MSA.

It is my ultimate goal to go completely into this as I hate doing Electrical work because the workforce out there is a real shit show.

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damn thats awesome! how did you pitch the MSA to them? just be like "hey i'll manage all your work for you"?

Posted: 8/13/2017 5:17:57 PM EDT

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friend of mine is a photographer. She ran a special -- 15 minutes for ~$100 bucks, unlimited prints.

Bitch is booked through November, mostly on that special

She comes to the customer, takes whatever pictures they want, and prints them and ships them. No store front, employees, anything. She's raking in the dough

Posted: 8/13/2017 5:19:50 PM EDT

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I'm retired but I fell into this part time. I go out and inspect commercial vehicles that have been involved in an accident of some kind. I look for things to determine what the factors were to cause the accident, whether it may be driver error, vehicle defect, lack of vehicle maintenance, road conditions, mother nature, or oh shit, bad timing. I work for a consulting firm, so I really don't deal with lawyers unless I get deposed or I have to testify. I make between $800.00 - $1,500.00 per day. I've already made $6,000.00 this month.

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were you an insurance adjuster/etc by trade? or did you randomly get into this with no background?

Posted: 8/13/2017 5:24:01 PM EDT

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Met a guy who buys cars at auction and sells them on his small lot. Has several lots and the cars don't sell quickly so he shuffles them between his own and friends lots who do the same.
He has a huge boat (40+ feet) that stays going all summer, lots of hot girls hanging out on it and never really seems to work much.

He must make great money selling those POS cars.

Posted: 8/13/2017 5:28:22 PM EDT

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Every real estate agent ever.

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They got hungry in this last recession, but you're right.

Posted: 8/13/2017 5:31:46 PM EDT

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Medical device sales. I have my own distributorship and the large corporations are my competition. My little slice of pie generates just into seven figures annually with very little overhead working six to ten hours a week. It can be stressfull though.

Posted: 8/13/2017 5:35:06 PM EDT

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I know a guy, Korean.

His name is Odd Job, and he is great with a shoe.

Makes bank whacking guys out.

Posted: 8/13/2017 5:35:30 PM EDT

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A good friend of mine bought a laser engraver 4-5 years ago. A little over 2 years ago he was able to buy a $150K German sports car. A few months later, he moved out of the place that he was renting and bought a $675K house and paid cash for an $80K swimming pool to be built. He works from home so his overhead is really low. I was shocked at how much he was pulling in per month.

Posted: 8/13/2017 5:35:36 PM EDT

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Medical device sales. I have my own distributorship and the large corporations are my competition. My little slice of pie generates just into seven figures annually with very little overhead working six to ten hours a week. It can be stressfull though.

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so do you buy in bulk from the company that manufactures the device then sell it to the customer? sounds like a pretty cool gig

Posted: 8/13/2017 5:37:41 PM EDT

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A good friend of mine bought a laser engraver 4-5 years ago. A little over 2 years ago he was able to buy a $150K German sports car. A few months later, he moved out of the place that he was renting and bought a $675K house and paid cash for an $80K swimming pool to be built. He works from home so his overhead is really low. I was shocked at how much he was pulling in per month.

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what in the fuck is he engraving? foot lockers of meth?

Posted: 8/13/2017 5:43:14 PM EDT

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what in the fuck is he engraving? foot lockers of meth?

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Those placards that go on solar panels. It looks like a black or red piece of plastic 18" X 24" initially. The laser removes the top layer which makes the lettering white. The laser then cuts it to size. He applies double sided tape to the back and delivers it.

Posted: 8/13/2017 5:45:29 PM EDT

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Paint less dent removal guys. Some of these guys chase hail around the country. A good one can make solid six figures and only work 4-5 months a year, granted that's on the road away from home.

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I chased hail for a few years and it's great money but your running 2 households.

I run a route at home now , I make more money now and I'm home every night.

Posted: 8/13/2017 5:47:42 PM EDT

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State-after-state is legalizing it for medical or recreational use. Once it's legal to transport across state lines the guys in Oregon and Northern California are going to make metric hundreds of millions of dollars. The place will explode with all the money packed into it.

Posted: 8/13/2017 5:49:18 PM EDT

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Because it's dope.

Posted: 8/13/2017 5:53:15 PM EDT

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Get your "8a" certification and sell something to the government at 30-40% markup.

Get listed as a source in "FedMall" or "GSA" and sell something to the government for 25% markup.

All you have to do is middleman the shipments from Amazon or somewhere else.

Posted: 8/13/2017 5:53:47 PM EDT

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I'm a professional problem solver. I don't have a specialty and can and do solve all types of problems. It's me and two other guys. Pretty lucrative gig but it's not something you can really learn in school. I started figuring out how things worked when I was about 8 years old. I never stopped trying to figure things out.

My secret... I'm typically the dumbest guy in the room and I'm not afraid to say it. I ask the stupid questions everyone else is scared to ask. It's not what you know that makes you good at this, it's the type of questions you know to ask. Me and the other two bust each other so hard for "faulty logic" during internal discussions it's like we have a super power now. Most people don't appreciate being called out for bad logic.

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how do you get that gig? are you hiring?
I found a consulting company that does that too, but they fly all over with teams to do it. The ceo wrote a book on problem solving that I read and found his company page.
Just can't swing flying around the world or all over the country 5 days a week.

Posted: 8/13/2017 5:54:16 PM EDT

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Film industry

Posted: 8/13/2017 5:55:29 PM EDT

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Monetizing Financial Instruments and esoteric assets. Among other things.

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Like MBS and CDS?

Posted: 8/13/2017 5:55:52 PM EDT

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I recently read about a guy that changes the light bulbs on those super tall radio towers...
Story "said" he gets $20k to do one tower...
'Not sure if true, but still... F*** that gig.
I can't even look at those towers without getting queezy

Posted: 8/13/2017 5:56:07 PM EDT

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Staff member on an Internet gun board?

Posted: 8/13/2017 6:04:02 PM EDT

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so do you buy in bulk from the company that manufactures the device then sell it to the customer? sounds like a pretty cool gig

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I buy product from several smaller companies and sell to the hospitals through my doctors(my accounts).

Posted: 8/13/2017 6:09:38 PM EDT

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how do you get that gig? are you hiring?
I found a consulting company that does that too, but they fly all over with teams to do it. The ceo wrote a book on problem solving that I read and found his company page.
Just can't swing flying around the world or all over the country 5 days a week.

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I'm a professional problem solver. I don't have a specialty and can and do solve all types of problems. It's me and two other guys. Pretty lucrative gig but it's not something you can really learn in school. I started figuring out how things worked when I was about 8 years old. I never stopped trying to figure things out.

My secret... I'm typically the dumbest guy in the room and I'm not afraid to say it. I ask the stupid questions everyone else is scared to ask. It's not what you know that makes you good at this, it's the type of questions you know to ask. Me and the other two bust each other so hard for "faulty logic" during internal discussions it's like we have a super power now. Most people don't appreciate being called out for bad logic.

how do you get that gig? are you hiring?
I found a consulting company that does that too, but they fly all over with teams to do it. The ceo wrote a book on problem solving that I read and found his company page.
Just can't swing flying around the world or all over the country 5 days a week.

I work for a global company and only deal with stuff for the company I work for. We are like an internal consulting group. It's not easy to get this position even if you've been with the company a while. They don't hire externally to fill these positions. Sorry.

If I were freelance, I'd make a lot more money but I like what I'm doing and where I'm doing it. What book did the CO write? Chances are I've read it.

Posted: 8/13/2017 6:16:01 PM EDT

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I used to work at a Land Rover dealer, we had a customer who bought a new $100k+ Range Rover every year, I asked him what he did once, he wrote the code for some online check out like where you put in your credit card info and then sold it to Yahoo in the late 90's, got millions up front and gets like $750k a year for the rest of his life...

Posted: 8/13/2017 6:18:11 PM EDT

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I know an FFL who early on started using Gunbroker to sell AR15's. His lucrative niche was having product shipped directly from the manufacturer due y to buyers FFL.

He did so well '07-'09 that he was able to pay cash for his $500k home.

Goid guy, quiet & unassuming. He is now doingoing tax stamp required products & the money is still good.

Posted: 8/13/2017 6:19:26 PM EDT

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Voice over work as a contract player.
Businesses who need something recorded for presentation
have no idea, so they tend to offer nice money.

Keep talking. I'm interested.

you'd think Fiverr would have killed this market by now.

Posted: 8/13/2017 6:31:48 PM EDT

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Posted: 8/13/2017 6:49:19 PM EDT

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I recently read about a guy that changes the light bulbs on those super tall radio towers...
Story "said" he gets $20k to do one tower...
'Not sure if true, but still... F*** that gig.
I can't even look at those towers without getting queezy

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just wear a parachute. Hell, make it fun: Change the light bulb then it's BASE-JUMPING TIIIIIIIIME!!!

Posted: 8/13/2017 6:58:19 PM EDT

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Hang out, drink beer, make money

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Posted: 8/13/2017 7:09:35 PM EDT

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My uncle owns a mansion in NJ, six race horse and all kinds of high end cars. He was a snack and candy salesman that got in on the ground floor of that fake champaign grape soda crap they now sell at every gorcery store.

Back on the 90's he pulled a bottle of the stuff out of the trunk of his car and gave me a drink. I thought it sucked and shrugged it off.

Posted: 8/13/2017 7:16:10 PM EDT

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I'm a professional problem solver. I don't have a specialty and can and do solve all types of problems. It's me and two other guys. Pretty lucrative gig but it's not something you can really learn in school. I started figuring out how things worked when I was about 8 years old. I never stopped trying to figure things out.

My secret... I'm typically the dumbest guy in the room and I'm not afraid to say it. I ask the stupid questions everyone else is scared to ask. It's not what you know that makes you good at this, it's the type of questions you know to ask. Me and the other two bust each other so hard for "faulty logic" during internal discussions it's like we have a super power now. Most people don't appreciate being called out for bad logic.

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What is an example of a problem that you have solved?

Posted: 8/13/2017 7:17:25 PM EDT

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I recently read about a guy that changes the light bulbs on those super tall radio towers...
Story "said" he gets $20k to do one tower...
'Not sure if true, but still... F*** that gig.
I can't even look at those towers without getting queezy

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I wonder how many he does a year?
for 20k I could probably get over the Nope