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Offline Dano

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Re: Thinking of quiting my day job.
« Reply #15 on: May 30, 2008, 08:11:15 pm »
I'd be real careful about bows on consignment, most archery shops know very little about traditional bows much less selfbows, the bows you leave in the shop may not be worth much when a few well meaning customers get done. Just from my experience.
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Re: Thinking of quiting my day job.
« Reply #16 on: May 30, 2008, 08:18:57 pm »
When something goes on consignment, at least in new york, the person possesing them is in charge of their well being and liable for them, just like a coat check.  I have sold bows and firearms on consignment and never had a problem.  i started farming on my own with my dad and a buddy, and as long as you find a niche and a market you are good to go and can charge what you like within reason.  if your product is good, people will come.  how do you think bear, hill, and all the opthers started.  gotta follow your dreams bro----
mullet, i would soooo attend your establishment :}
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Re: Thinking of quiting my day job.
« Reply #17 on: May 30, 2008, 08:33:43 pm »
thank you for both the caution and the encouragement...a guy needs both!

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Re: Thinking of quiting my day job.
« Reply #18 on: May 30, 2008, 08:43:16 pm »
                          A Topless Laundry Bar.....when are you opening..cause this Boy is Moving ta Florida!!! 
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                                                                                ;D
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Offline DanaM

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Re: Thinking of quiting my day job.
« Reply #19 on: May 30, 2008, 08:46:24 pm »
  I say go for it. People have followed their dreams and suceeded and failed. If it doesn't work then learn from your mistakes and try something different. I've always wanted a laundromat/bar, where you leave your clothes to be washed. You sit at the bar while your clothes are washed. You get to watch the girls, Hooter type, topless do your clothes while you drink. ;D

Eddie I could be talked into going in as partners on a venture of this sort ;D
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Offline Dane

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Re: Thinking of quiting my day job.
« Reply #20 on: May 30, 2008, 08:55:43 pm »
Marty, be very careful, get your business Ps and Qs together, make a business plan, get lots of advice from small business owners of all sorts, read tons of materials on starting and running a business, and then go for it. We only get one life, and we aint getting out alive, so why not follow your dreams? Especially since you have some money coming in from Uncle Sugar :) Oh, thanks for many years service in the US Navy. My dad was a Navy officer, and I ended up in the Army. (Hard to drown or get eaten by sharks when you are humping an M60).

I have toyed with the idea, not bows, but Roman artillary, as an extra side business. Just gigantic arrow throwers, after all. :)

Radius, congrats! Best of luck with those bows.
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Offline Dano

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Re: Thinking of quiting my day job.
« Reply #21 on: May 30, 2008, 09:02:26 pm »
I didn't mean to come off too cautious or negative, must be old age  ::) If a guy can make a living, or pay for his toys with the skill that he was blessed with and is happy doing it, he is truely blessed.
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Re: Thinking of quiting my day job.
« Reply #22 on: May 30, 2008, 09:04:48 pm »
                                                        Dang .....You Are OLD ....Dano!!!!!!

                                                                         O:)     :o
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Offline Dano

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Re: Thinking of quiting my day job.
« Reply #23 on: May 30, 2008, 10:36:03 pm »
Still a young squirt to some  ::)
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Re: Thinking of quiting my day job.
« Reply #24 on: May 30, 2008, 10:42:52 pm »
Still a young squirt to some  ::)

                                  Yep....and You are only as Old as You feel....and today I feel 70!!!
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Re: Thinking of quiting my day job.
« Reply #25 on: May 30, 2008, 10:55:28 pm »
Sorry to hear that bud,  ;D I wish our bones could feel as young as our brain.
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Re: Thinking of quiting my day job.
« Reply #26 on: May 30, 2008, 10:59:23 pm »
Sorry to hear that bud,  ;D I wish our bones could feel as young as our brain.

Being wrapped around Highway Signs at 60 miles per hour on a Bike....tends to age one pretty quickly!!....so when the weather get bad...or it gets too Hot.......all the Metal in Me starts to aching!!!
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Re: Thinking of quiting my day job.
« Reply #27 on: May 30, 2008, 11:56:53 pm »
Sounds like somebody is whining ::) Old age ain't for wimps, so I hear  ;D
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Re: Thinking of quiting my day job.
« Reply #28 on: May 31, 2008, 12:19:13 am »
    Yep, don't need any whiners in my Laundromat. I was paralyzed from the waist down for a about a year from a crash. :'(
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« Reply #29 on: May 31, 2008, 01:52:09 am »
        Who's Whining.......Not Me.........Just got my Metals ( not a Misspell!!) of Valor and Bravery on the Inside....not on my Lapel !!!!!!!!
As a species we're fundamentally insane. Put more than two of us in a room, we pick sides and start dreaming up ways to kill one another.Why do you think we invented politics and religion.
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