Nick Ford

I kept that 100% as a side hustle.

Again, putting in that part-time effort, getting part-time results, which again, fine with.

I was still working full-time in policing, got the young family, so on and so forth.

So that was very much a part-time passive kind of side hustle venture.

I would say probably 15.

four years three three or four years yeah and again that's doing it part-time right that's that's doing it um i mean the income was passive but to be frank my sales was very passive it was almost like if unless if somebody came to me and was like hey such and such said that you do atm machines like i know a guy then i'd be like okay yeah hook me up with him um but i've i've

I was very passive on sales.

Looking back, and this is something that I'm changing with my AI automation agency.

Looking back, I knew the ATM industry, and I knew merchant services, and I knew the problems that I was solving.

What I didn't know was marketing.

Really, that is what separates.

That is where scaling starts coming into play.

So I left law enforcement for actually a part-time, not a part-time, I'm sorry, a temporary contractor role, a full-time temporary contractor role doing basic IT support stuff.

Now,

It was for a huge company, a Fortune 100 company.

I took about a $30,000 pay cut leaving law enforcement and making this jump.

And as I mentioned in our emails back and forth, I did this with a two-year-old at home and a pregnant wife.

Um, so for all of you that are looking for the right time to make a move, there is no right time, believe me.

Um, so, so, so that was kind of a, a pretty scary, um, jump leaving that stability.

And not only did I take a pay cut, but it was a temporary role, right?