Even the laziest person has a passion

[Japher]

Spacers usually like astrology

[Spec]

Japher, do you mean like somekind of home service or something? Sorry, I dont get it.


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[Datajack Franit]

I cannot believe you left sports out!

I play twice a week in a volleyball team, and my second interest is ancient history, which is supposed to be my next college degree

[Jamski]

Like the man says

I love football (thats soccer for the ex-colonists) and rugby

-Jam

[muxec]

BTW where is math and physics?

[Adagio]

Originally posted by Datajack Franit
I cannot believe you left sports out!

I play twice a week in a volleyball team, and my second interest is ancient history, which is supposed to be my next college degree

If you play twice a week, you're not lazy, so you shouldn't vote this poll

[Spec]

Originally posted by ADG


If you play twice a week, you're not lazy, so you shouldn't vote this poll

This poll is not exclusivly for the lazy, it's just an indication as how anybody can be driven by a passion. Even the poeple who's passion is watching TV! They could be a movie critic or something.


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[JohnT]

Other: My passion is running my businesses.

[Spec]

Originally posted by JohnT
Other: My passion is running my businesses.

Ok...then you must like what your businesses do. I think that you wouldn't have had an extermination service or doggy doodoo pick up service. Right? Then you have a passion...in witch your businesses run in.

Running your businesses, imo, is just an extra.

Right?

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[JohnT]

I distribute telephone books. It doesn't matter what I do, once having been in charge I discovered a passion for being in charge.

If that makes any sense.

Fortunately for me I found myself in an industry that is relatively undeveloped (in a business sense) and is simple enough to comprehend inside-out fully within 5-10 years.

[Spec]

Originally posted by JohnT
I distribute telephone books. It doesn't matter what I do, once having been in charge I discovered a passion for being in charge.

If that makes any sense.

Oh it does. So you're a Tyrant. Just joking.

But....what kind of telephone books? Doesn't the phone company do that?


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[JohnT]

Not all of them, and there are a lot more phone books published than just the 225,000,000 published by the descendents of the Baby Bells (which from a publishing viewpoint is now just SBC, Verizon, BellSouth and Cincinatti Bell). There are over 500,000,000 of the things published every year, of which appx. 350,000,000 are distributed by outside vendors such as myself.

The largest internal distribution is handled by Yellow Book USA, who publishes appx. 70 million books. All the utilities and most of the independents hire vendors.

[Spec]

Pekkas passion must be to be a Drunken Pornstar in an porn - action movie.

Am I right?


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[Snotty]

Originally posted by JohnT

Fortunately for me I found myself in an industry that is relatively undeveloped (in a business sense) and is simple enough to comprehend inside-out fully within 5-10 years.

How did you come work in your industry?

[JohnT]

Originally posted by Snotty


How did you come work in your industry?

Ancient proverb: My favorite subject: Myself.

I came into the business through my parents, who got started in the industry in 1981 and started their own distribution company in 1984 'cause of the above ATT decision. My father, cause of sheer f*ckery on his part at critical junctures of his life, was reduced to delivering telephone directories in 1981, the Year Without a Christmas.

Anyway, he is executive material and he was noticed, hired, and quickly promoted in one of the publishing units that held it's own distribution arm (yes, I am being vague with names) when the ATT decision struck, putting him, his G/F, and his boss (and a lot of other people) out of work.

So they got together a business plan to outsource the distribution to their new company, met in NY with their prior bosses, and walked away with a $4 million contract.

I started there full time after I got out of UGA in 1991 (I goofed quite a bit in college), and I left their company just last August, a tale that has gone on through 4 threads:

God, I quit my job... left the family biz... and I'm so happy I could just scream!

Ten Days that Shook My World

All The Lies That Are My Life, or, JohnT vs. his Parents.

How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.

In summary: My parents got so mad because I left they screwed me out of a $17,000 separation package, a package that included health care coverage for my wife and daughter (their granddaughter). Include a $10,000 bonus that I didn't get, plus that I was also presented with a $600 American Express bill for "misc. undocumented expenses") and they took me for $27,600 in the space of 3 minutes... and they (seemingly) planned this for 2 months.

In addition to this they pressed a previously unknown non-compete document that I might have signed in 1996, which prevented me from continuing in my career for a year.

This pissed me off to the point where my response was to spend that year setting the stage in taking over their most despised competitor. I bought into the company and, with the help of a another gentleman, removed the then-President putting myself in his place. We are now beginning a major marketing push, and have just signed a $40,000 contract to deliver books in Gwinnett County, GA.

And you thought you asked a simple question, huh?