post about your failure/flaws - Page 2

Easy what are 24 or 25 I think. The scrap industry is littered with failures and flawed personalities. Don't let those flaws define you. I have had my share of failures. Hell I found out I can't work with my dad and it costs me years of not really talking to him. We both made mistakes he should of listened to me and stayed home. I do job finish job move on to next job. He never let that happen. He wanted to be on site all the time. My biggest flaw I am a straight up a$$hole or d&$khead take your pick. If he would of stayed at home **** would have gotten done and done right. He always wanted to half a$$ do scrap jobs. Eventually I walked off quit and started my own business. Lesson learned and now I get along with my dad. Its in the past. We both made mistakes. We both realize that. Another failure was when I first started my own scrap business. I did business with a Canadian. He used to buy industrial equipment and I would remove it. I would send him the check and my expenses and he would wire me back the expense plus my half of the profit. We had done it numerous times before. Well the last time he sent me back the expenses only. Said he made a mistake and would fix it in a few days. Well a few days went by and no money. Called and he didn't pick up. It's been 8 years and I have still haven't seen my profit. I loved working for free it was a blast and all but I still want my money. My failure to have the check put in my name almost put me under before I could even get off the ground. I was young and naive I guess but no one but me is ever gonna handle my money. I lost a great friend to doing this but that's an entire book of a partner who was lazy and didn't wanna work. Wasn't a failure just a business partnership failure. I payed him and moved on. It's just business it happens. Success is only determined by how hard you want to work. Start broke and hopefully end up rich. No one has ever said I wanna stay broke for forever.

Flaws? Too many to mention.

Failures? None. However I do have plenty of extremely expensive learning experiences. EXTREMELY expensive. A few memorable ones that my wife will probably never forget.

Flaws: When helping someone sell stuff, trying to tell them their item that they think is worth so much you could barely give it away. Also, I spend ALOT of time on CL and ebay, but I spend more time browsing than I should since I have too many things to list already
Failures: Not really anything major (knock on wood), I have missed a few voicemails from people on CL and completely forget to call them back til a few weeks later when its already gone.