Isaac

So I guess to get more specific, so we have that business. I'm also a realtor on the side. And so any extra time I have, I'm, I'm spending on that, trying to sell houses and stuff. Um, I knew it that too, just a few months ago. So I'm just barely starting to make money. The business itself, the cookie shop, the cookie shop, isn't making really anything. We're just barely breaking even.

And then we're just doing all kinds of little side hustles where we can. DoorDash and Uber Eats and delivering for Walmart and stuff like that.

I can't figure it out.

Yeah, so we did stuff the stupid way because we hadn't found Dave Ramsey yet. And so a friend of mine, he's just a silent capital partner. He put in money up front and helped us get into it. We have a big loan on it. How much? It's a quarter million.

Yeah, so I owe, yeah, 70% of it, yeah.

And the rest you owe to your... Right, I'm the 70% partner.

Well, kind of. We think we do. So our sales were really, really good when we opened in the summer, and we would have made money, but we didn't have our expenses under control. Once we got our expenses under control, we cut payroll costs really down. We got control of our inventory costs, stuff like that. We're doing a lot better on the expenses side. But our sales went down and we hit the winter.

Part of that is because our marketing budget was kind of gone. So we weren't making as much because we just, our marketing was suffering.

Yeah, and in Missouri, the winters are pretty brutal and cold, so yeah.

Right, yeah, so we're just barely making it. But yeah, my capital partner, she's out in a different state. My wife and I are here, and we're operating the business.

We've been able to bring our sales up just a little bit, so we've been able to hire one more part-time person. But my wife and I are both, are each putting in about 25 to 30 hours a week.

Well, and I guess there's kind of another part and that's just, I'm really worried because I totally get what you're saying. And that's where my head is too. It's like, I need to, we need to get our sales up. We need to get our sales up. That's all we talk about with the business. And so I'm trying to reach out and get catering orders and stuff.

But then we're worried because the more time we dedicate to that and it's not a sure thing that money will, you know, the sales will go up. That takes away time where we're doing like door dashing and stuff and we're trying to pay the bills on the personal side. And so that's kind of where we're stressed.

But we were losing money. We've gotten to a point where we're either just breaking even or making about $1,000 or less.

So, So as a brick and mortar business, this is my first attempt at all. I've done other like side hustles and stuff like helped with marketing for other businesses, helped with bookkeeping for other businesses.

Hey, guys. So I'm 26. I'm married with two kids, and I own a business that we just opened back in June. It's really taking a lot of time from us. My wife and I are both working at it full time, and we're not making much money yet. And so we're just kind of stressed about bills and stuff. We're kind of wondering how we can organize our lives better to be able to make more money and move forward.

So it's a franchise that a friend of mine and I bought into, and it's a cookie store.

60,000 before bonuses after bonuses probably like 70 to 75.

Uh, go back to school for business. Why? Well, because in order for me to make more money in this career and move into like a sales manager job, the minimum requirement for any big company in the electrical industry is a bachelor's degree.

No, that's why.

Well, my company is a rep firm. We rep the bigger manufacturers, a lot of the big electrical guys you hear of in the industry. And I would like to eventually transition to being a territory manager for one of those bigger companies. And they have that as a requisite to even get an interview.

Hey, Dave and John, how are you doing?

So I'm 24 years old, and I currently work as an outside salesman in the electrical industry. I have my associate's degree, and I'd like to go on and finish my bachelor's. And my company has offered...

to pay for it but they want me to sign a five-year commitment commitment with them should i do that or should i just pay for it myself five years from today yes or from the last time that they write a check five years from when i would start college it would be this fall okay but it's going to take you how many years working at night