Welcome back to another episode of the Reseller's
Mindset Podcast. My name is Mike, also known
as the Used Book Guy on YouTube, along with my
friend and fellow full -time reseller, Johnny
B. We help people start and grow their reselling
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this week's episode. what is up everybody welcome
to another episode of resellers mindset podcast
like next to johnny me and johnny were joking
before this call and uh we got a good topic though
kind of the the life in times of a solo entrepreneur
reseller and the challenges you have a solo and
i think there's like two different kinds of solo
even though there's really no other definitions
of solo right uh somebody that is just by themselves
doesn't have a significant other maybe doesn't
have anybody else to really relate to when it
comes to reselling i think those people have
it harder than somebody like me who i have deb
at least i can drag out to the thrift stores
and uh i have you know i have a big community
we have the community so like i also have you
know all those people that i consider friends
and i think the problem is when you're just by
yourself and you're just out there like you have
to do the work you have to get up and go do it
and you don't have nobody to tell you you got
to do it I think that's the hardest even you
know I struggle with that some days I'm just
like man do I really want to go out and spend
all day in a thrift store when it's the first
70 degree day of the year like the answer is
no every single time but I'm like well at the
end of the month like there's a bunch of bills
that I gotta pay right so it's like I I guess
I'm reminded of you know it takes money to live
live a life and That's what keeps me motivated.
But I think there's a lot of people that are
just by themselves and it's hard to find the
motivation. I think a lot of people struggle
with being motivated when you're the solo entrepreneur,
even if it's not reselling. If you're just doing
anything solo and you don't have like a community
or like even another YouTube channel that's kind
of doing the same thing as you, it's a lonely,
lonely life. I 100 % agree. I mean. You have
to be your own cheerleader. You have to be the
one to say, it's rise and grind, motherfucker.
It's time to get to it. Mr. T style. Not happening.
And meanwhile, your body is like, no, you're
sore from yesterday. Your mind goes, I haven't
had coffee yet. Back off. Or, I just don't wanna.
And there are a lot of solo people in different
groups. I understand why they join groups. Partially
because... Other people they occasionally get
to see and talk to. Because odds are you don't
got family members or friends doing this. They're
doing their nine to five. And the conversations
are pretty much unrelatable. Oh, yeah. nobody's
gonna understand what we're talking about dude
i mean i still like i think after a while you
don't even try to explain what the hell you do
like even if it's not even if it's just like
flipping items on ebay or facebook marketplace
i think after like your 10th conversation with
somebody and somebody asks you what you do you're
just like yeah i work for myself like you don't
even go down on what you just leave it at that
because it's so unrelatable to other people that
like i'm in e -commerce i buy low and sell high
that sounds fancier than it is Yeah, yeah. It's
tough, man, like you said, because nobody's going
to relate to it. I mean, sure, there's like some
larger cities where like there's multiple resellers
doing the same thing and they connect and things
like that. But I mean, I've only seen a handful
of people that I've ever known out here in central
Pennsylvania. And it's not like they lived around
here. They were just out here sourcing for whatever
reason, trying to steal my profitable items,
by the way. Now I'm just messing around. But
like, it's not like I... I'm in these stores
and there's all these scanners and all these
Amazon sellers. And I'm like, hey, how's your
Amazon? So like no one has any, you know, relation
to what I'm doing in these stores. I mean, another
thing with being solo is like the solo comparison.
Like you're always trying to compare yourself
to somebody else. And I think that is just as
evil as like trying to be motivated to get up
and go out. Me comparing myself to Johnny, comparing
myself to this person. There's always going to
be another person to compare yourself to. Right.
Like even the richest man in the world, Mr. Bezos.
Right. Like I'm sure he compares himself not
monetarily or business wise, but compares himself
in some way to somebody else that he thinks is
ahead of him. Like, I think that's also like
so not toxic, but I think it can be real demoralizing
for a lot of people when they see somebody that's
like. absolutely crushing it and you think they
have the same business model as you so you feel
inferior as a person just because you see somebody
posting these numbers yeah it's the what what
what is next mentality you climb the mountain
and like okay what now what do i do now is there
a bigger mountain is there a guy who did it faster
what what can i do and then you get stuck into
this point of oh there is another guy he climbed
everest i i clown climbed my local hill that's
one bajillionth the size do i do i want to climb
everest and that's a question you gotta decide
for yourself um i have found in our profession
no matter who you ask whether it's part -time
or full -time usually they say the money's never
enough and they want more no matter if they have
achieved their goal or not they move the bar
the bar gets moved every year or whenever they
complete their task or whatever it is their goal
like you know what let's double up Let's triple
up. Let's make it extraordinarily stupidly high
or insurmountable. And then they try to strive
for that. And I don't think there's anything
necessarily wrong with that, unless it's self
-defeating and you get demoralized by those facts,
like you were saying. And when you get in those
stages, it's hard to reprogram yourself to be
like, what you're doing is just fine. It's A
-OK, unless it's not. You've got to be making
money for the statement to be true. What you're
doing is just fine. If you want to scale higher,
you probably know how to scale at this juncture.
You just got to decide if you actually want to
do that. And if you're floundering around, odds
are you probably don't actually want to do that.
It's just what's expected of you. I think people
live up to other people's never said expectations.
They never said, hey, Mike, I need you to double
up by this time next year. No one's ever said
that to you. Well, at least not in an. In a serious
way, maybe in a joking way, like fooling around
with you, but nobody's serious about those claims.
I think you got to define like what your own
values and like needs out of the business is.
Now, don't get me wrong. Some people just love
working, right? There's some people out there
that are making multiple seven figures a year.
And me and Johnny are sitting here like, hey,
if you give us one of those seven figures, like
we're out of here. You don't even got to kick
us out the door. We'll kindly walk through it.
And but those some people are just built differently
where they're like, hey, you know, I enjoy work
in 10 hour days, you know, and it keeps them
busy. That's like their thing that keeps them
going. And it's all a balancing act because everybody
has, you know, different things for me. I want
to work as little and make as much as I can.
And I just want to. Live comfortably, you know,
have money for retirement. So I don't got to
do this when I'm 95 years old and I'm working
towards those goals. And if somebody dropped
a million dollars in front of me today, I'm going
to go buy a house with cash. I'm going to invest
the rest. I'll probably still continue to resell
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the link in the description below. But like I
would, I'd be set. And I think, I think a lot
of people wouldn't be content with that. And
maybe I'm just a person that's content with just
being comfortable, living comfortably and having
money. Like if my bank account's going up on
a monthly basis and I'm doing everything I need
to do, I'm covering the bills, I'm investing
in retirement, everything's paid. I don't have
to worry about if there's an emergency with the
car or the cat, whatever it may be. To me, dude,
I'm living it up over here. And I think to a
lot of people, We like you said, we're always
chasing this next thing. And I mean, I pretty
much already, you know, submitted to the fact
I probably won't do as much in sales on Amazon
this year as I did last year. But I'm still going
to try to make the same amount of money with
a higher ASP. But like, I don't lose sleep over
that. And I think, you know, 2022, Mike, would
probably be bent out of shape that when I look
at my Amazon chart, it says my sales are down
over last year. But I don't I could care less
about what that stupid thing says anymore. Yeah,
I mean, I think as we go up in age, honestly,
our priorities shift. I mean, a lot of the basics
are already done. Debt's paid off. Any kind of
outstanding debt you have is probably paid off.
School loans probably paid off, probably. You're
looking to venture into house territory, so that's
probably your next biggest leap. And after that,
everything's small in comparison. I know. So
you don't got to worry about as much. Now, people
who want to have the fanciest things all the
time, they will never have enough money because
there's a new fancy thing coming out every day.
Thanks to social media. So true. Like I'm over
here driving an 08 Nissan Altima with heated
seats and a sunroof. And I'm like, shit, I'm
over here styling and profiling. And these people
are like, I need every year's iPhone. their the
new tesla this that i'm just like hey just let
me do my thing nothing says i love myself like
for sachi nothing says i love myself without
a tiffany ring or something i'm not mad about
it like if you have a goal and maybe like one
day you want to Maybe you're into watches and
one day you want to get a Rolex or something
like that. I think it's good to have big, grand
goals. And mine is just the house. Some people
want the Rolex. I just want to have a house.
Something practical. Yeah, like a house. It's
all my own. But I guess like if there was, I
don't know, dude. All right. What's one fancy
thing you would, I'm going to be straight up.
If I could get like an old school Lamborghini
with the suicide doors. And I can roll around
to the thrift stores in that. That's probably
my, if I ever am presented a great opportunity
to buy one of those, that is, I guess that would
be like my fun gift to myself that is actually
expensive. But I mean, other than that, I guess,
you know, a lot of it too was like your upbringing,
how you're raised, the situations you were in,
the social interactions you had growing up. um
i guess just from being so broke all my life
i don't i don't need much to survive dude this
is just some spaghetti and some bread i'm good
to go like i lived on spaghetti for like two
years right like and when worse comes to worse
i'll be a -okay and uh i guess that it's not
i guess some people see it as like short -sighted
too when i tell everybody like hey i'm not trying
to grow and i'm not trying to get all this bulk
inventory I'm not trying to do all these things.
People are like, well, Mike, you could do it
if you want to. Well, I probably could also go
back to school and get my master's and everything
else and whatever I wanted to. It doesn't interest
me. There's nothing wrong with not being interested
and always growing or always trying to be working
all damn day every day. Life's too short. Shit
happens, man. I've seen crazy things happen.
I've had so many family members pass away in
the past year and a half. Yeah, I've realized,
man, life is too short. You don't know which
day is going to be your last on this planet.
And I'm not saying that just to scare somebody,
but I'm saying that's the facts of life. Yeah,
I mean, everybody's got the same 24, but nobody
knows when their expiration clock's out, honestly.
It could be tomorrow. It could be, I don't know,
a million tomorrows from now. Just don't know.
I mean, what's his name? Dick Van Dyke, he just
turned 100. Who would have guessed Dick Van Dyke
would have lived to 100? He outdid Betty White,
for crying out loud. And you got some people
dying in their 30s, right? It's like, oh, that
could be me. It could be you. You just don't
know. When your time's up, it's up, honestly.
So yeah, that's why I talk about doing your work
with excellence all the time. And there's some
flack about that. I'm too lazy for that. Okay,
that's you then. And that's okay. I've come to
terms with that, that my own personal, I don't
know, expectations are here. And anybody else's,
they can be wherever they want them to be, higher
or lower than mine. That's on them. Because they've
accepted that. They've come to terms with what
they find satisfactory. It used to get under
my skin. Now it doesn't. Yeah, I definitely feel
like over the years, you're not as hard -headed
when you see people doing things that don't.
like necessarily agree with the way you do things
i still think they're stupid but it's there they
want to embrace it it's all on them when johnny's
not on the podcast or on the calls he's uh he's
just yelling at the wall inside of his uh little
warehouse they're like no how could you i couldn't
afford the therapy hours for all i have to say
yeah uh that's what we need we need like a reselling
therapist to emerge right like that he would
make so much money really Oh, they have to be
really thick skin, like be able to be yelled
at on the spot. Yeah. And to be able to hold
all of those secrets that come along with it.
I don't know if I could do it. It's a, it's a
crazy, crazy world out there. I mean, it's, it's
tough. You know, I, I still have plenty of days
where I don't want to do a goddamn thing. Like
this morning when I, when me and Johnny, he looked
rough when we turned on the zoom, he looked really
rough guys. I'm like, 10 diet sodas in because
we lost an hour of sleep last night and it's
only an hour of sleep. And I think to myself,
like, I probably went to bed before the majority
of people in my group. I'm like completely exhausted.
You're in bed at eight and you have to get up
at seven. I know. But like, you know, to me,
that's brutal. But to somebody else, like there's
people out there that can function on four hours
sleep and to them it's perfectly normal. But
if I can start comparing myself to the guy or
lady who's, you know, perfectly fine with four
hours of sleep. I got no shot. I can't ever be
that person. Like you have to accept your own
limitations to doing this by yourself. I think,
I think a lot of us think we can do anything
and everything. And I'm not sitting here telling
you that you can't, you know, have a business
as big as you want it to be. But I think like
everybody has certain limitations, right? Like
I don't want to drive that far. Like, could I
possibly, I really don't want to do it. I can
only lift so much weight as well, right? Some
people have, you know, physical limitations.
And I don't think it's like a knock on anybody
for having these limitations. And you could set
your own limitations, but everybody's going to
be different when it comes to a million different
things we're doing here in resale. And I think
when you start looking at it by yourself, you
try to compare yourself to others. You see this
person selling this and they sold, whoa, I've
never sold trading cards before. Oh man, this
person just sold one for a hundred dollars. Like
maybe I should start. Like you just. it's always
there's always something else to chase man there's
always another business model chase yeah and
the people with limitations great i want you
to be the i don't know gadget person and you
invent something that makes your life easier
everybody else goes that would make my life easier
too only i was that smart like if you can't lift
as much okay maybe you have a motorized cart
That's built on gasoline, right? And you just
go zooming through the thrift stores and the
flea markets and the library sales just because
you're the one person who has a motor in their
car. You need like the luggage things that you
can ride on that are like battery powered. You
just go in with your suitcase and just fly around
the whole damn place. Yeah, like a golf cart
that you engineered to be like a train. It has
a bajillion little rolly carts that you can just
fill up with books in the back. That'd be awesome.
um yeah so use your use your thing to like okay
what can i what can i build or pay somebody to
build and or make that that will make my life
easy if you can't lift as much you can't bend
down as much i mean they got that stupid claw
thing right but if you can't bend down that claw
thing is genius um because just because of a
limitation um Now, on the really, really boring
day, I'll be honest with you. Most days, my go
-to is just ridiculously loud music. I don't
even care what it is. You can ask Mike. He's
called me sometimes, and I'll be playing I don't
know what, but it's loud. I'm thinking he's in
the club. I'm like, shit, this guy's in the club?
It's like 1 in the afternoon. Yeah, it keeps
me going, man, and I don't want to go, but the
music's making me. You're like, oh, it's the
movie Weekend at Bernie's. Whenever the music's
on, he's got to be moving. Just got to keep moving.
Just got to keep moving. There's a beat. Yeah.
You wouldn't be surprised how often that works
at four in the morning and lasts you all day.
Again, I don't care what it is. I've lost interest
on what type of music I like anymore. Like, okay,
today's Scottish day. Bring the bagpipes. Let's
go. Today's Ethiopian Wednesdays. Let's do this.
Yeah, I think too. Like, I think you hit a good
point there. It's like, you can't expect what
works for you or like the results you're getting.
Maybe you're doing something that's weird, right?
Like, you know, Johnny admitting to his Scottish
music days. And he's, you know, up at 4 a .m.
And I think if it's working for you, then stick
with it. No matter if I sit here and tell Johnny
he's a weird ass human being for jamming out
to, I don't know, K -pop every Friday. Like that's
his thing. Right. But like Johnny's not going
to stop doing it just because I think it's like
weird. I think a lot of people take like judgment
to heart. Like if somebody, you know, your average
person says, oh, man, you. the reason you work
is because you listen to k -pop music and you're
like yeah and then like then maybe they say something
like derogatory to you like who cares i always
thought in business and like in life if somebody
doesn't like what i'm doing or everybody's doing
something else but i'm getting results with what
i'm doing i don't give a shit about what everybody
else is doing i'm just trying to do me over here
i'll be honest with you this is off topic entirely
but i've listened to like all day military cadence
before and i swear to god half of them are about
some guy named jody banging your wife back home
and then you coming home and beating the hell
out of them that is literally about half of those
cadence songs that they're teaching the military
guys i found it amusing when i started getting
into it but uh it's maybe you got country music
kind of doing the same thing but go ahead it's
it's tough and i think a lot of people struggle
And I don't think it's a bad thing. I think we're
all going to have different struggles in life.
But, I mean, you got to do it all. If I don't
work, Johnny don't work, our businesses don't
work. That's one thing I realized is the biggest
downfall about being a reseller is, sure, can
you get it to a point where you can have managers,
you can step back? But, I mean, we're talking
leap years ahead of where most of us are. I mean,
it's not like I can just go hire somebody today
and replace me. Like, that's easily probably
at least a year runway of training somebody.
And then that's going to take margin off the
top as well because you've got to pay this person.
I just, you know, being solo is tough, man. I
listen to podcasts when I'm driving, listen to
the Ramsey show, and just kind of do my thing.
And when I'm in the stores, you know, it's not
as glorious as it used to be. I've been going
to the same stores. That's another thing. We're
so repetitive in what we do. We just don't. I'm
in the same thrift stores for the past six years.
I know the exact layout. I know basically the
blueprints. I know I see the same people working
there for six years. And I'm like, man, this
show I've been doing this for six years coming
in this stinky place. Like, is there something
else? Coming out with Bob's cake. You're like,
where's my cake? Yeah. I was like, is there something
else I can do? I think after a while it starts
to lose its excitement. right like i'm not as
excited to go out and thrift and scan thousands
of books as i used to be i understand it's a
job that i have to do to make the money i want
to make but i'm not like running out the door
you know grabbing my jacket you know running
out without my shoes on i'm just like you're
not frodo baggins going i'm going on an adventure
deb's got like both hands on my back like pushing
me out the door and like trying to close it as
i'm leaning back on it i I think after a while,
it loses its kind of shine and excitement. But
thankfully, I'm so goddamn greedy and I guess
lazy that I want to make as much money and work
as little as I can. And as far as I know. This
is the best way to do it in my life experience.
So then guess what? I'm going to do it. If it
was any harder than it had to be, then I probably
wouldn't. But it's so silly when you take a step
back and look at how you can have a business
that requires no knowledge. It just requires
you scanning items and putting a label on them.
So like, I guess that's my motivation. It's not.
It's not the thrill of the hunt. It's not going
out and being excited to scan the books or being
excited about the library sales. I just do that
because it's part of the job. I mean, it's a
cool when I come across something that's super
expensive. Yeah, but, like, it's not. How long
does that last? Five minutes? Ten minutes? Not
even, dude. It's, like, three seconds. I'm like,
ah, shit, I got to keep going. If I want to get
home before sundown, the hell with this. We got
to keep scanning. We got to keep scanning. It
loses its allure. I think everything does after
a while. You know, even, like, professional sports
players, they retire. It loses, like, the game
loses its allure when you've been doing it for
so long and dealing with the same people. I think
that's why people try to switch, you know, get
into different categories. And that's why I tell
everybody, start with something you're passionate
about. It's much easier to be a bookseller if
you actually read books and care about books
versus somebody like me who just cares about
the money. I guarantee you people that care about
books are much more excited when they walk into
a library sale because when they're done scanning
for the business, they can go buy a few things
for themselves when I'm just out the door like,
all right, I got to go. I know. I think you're
right. i mean i like books and i still get excited
when i go to a sale or something because there's
usually something oh this is on my reading list
or i'm going to read this and i'm going to sell
it hopefully i can finish before i sell it kind
of deal um and then And I think it's the same
way for like the movie guys who are really into
movies and they're selling DVDs. Oh, I want to
watch this. Or, oh, the director's really awesome.
I haven't seen this. Maybe I'll pop it in and
give it a try. Or the same for the music people.
Like I've heard of this band, but I've never
listened to this band kind of thing. Or this
is the rare Australian version. There's one extra
song on here that nobody else got. There's that
excitement appeal. And the video game guys, I
mean, he doesn't like Mario Kart. Yeah, it's
tough. I do think passion plays into it. But
I also think if you're just about the money,
you could care less about what you're selling.
I think there's a lot of people like me now,
more than there used to be, where people that
are just driven by flipping their money and they
just resell anything and everything because they're
solely motivated about the money. They don't
care if they're selling a Cuisinart kitchen mixer
or they're selling a goddamn tube TV. I think
people are driven by money more than they used
to be because let's face it, dude, everything's
goddamn expensive. You need a lot of money to
survive anymore in this world. I challenge you
to go to the dollar store with exactly one dollar
and buy one thing. I challenge you. Yeah, it's
tough. And I think people look to the side hustles.
But when you start really digging into it, especially
if you're spending lots of hours. If you told
me I had to spend like it's bad enough. Right.
I don't my business is like a two day a week
business. It's not even like long days. But I
have the coaching calls. I have the group. But
like if you told me I had a source and like actively
list of my business for 40 plus hours a week.
I would probably be pretty miserable. The only
upside to that is - Would you though? Because
you'd be making more money probably. That's the
thing. I was going to say, the only upside is
I should be making a shit ton of money. Like
I should be Mr. Krabs where my pockets are just
lined with cash. So maybe that plays into it
too, right? If you do feel like you're spending
a lot of time, you're going to be defeated if
the money's not on the back end, right? If you're
spending five hours every day, five days a week,
that's 25 hours and you're not getting - a hundred,
I would say 25 hours a week, you better be getting
at least a thousand dollars a month into your
bank account. You ain't going to keep it going.
And I don't, I don't blame you, but you know,
if you are going to work that much, make sure
the payoff is there because the burnout burnout
is real. We all run into it from time to time.
We all got to take a step away. We all got to,
you know, refuel the batteries. And when you're
by yourself, it's even harder to do because you
just feel like you got to keep going because
if you don't. Nobody's sourcing. Nobody's listing.
Nobody's packing. Nobody's shipping. It all falls
on you at the end of the day. And that's why
the Scottish bagpipes are needed, my friend.
Yeah. Maybe that is the secret life hack. Maybe
we should launch a course. How to stay motivated
with music as a reseller. Oh, God. What's that
thing called? Rumba or whatever? That exercise
thing where everybody's dancing and trying? Oh,
yeah. Zumba, I think. Zumba. There it is. Yeah.
There we go. Johnny B's Zumba program. Pre -selling.
Hell yeah. Everybody bring your Pilates kit.
We're going to be kicking ass and taking names.
We're going to have the most listings we've ever
had done. You can even do this right in the stores.
You don't have to even, you can watch the replay
and just, you know, salsa it right out, right
in the book section. We got no problem with that.
Latin America Thursdays. There we go. I don't
know. The biggest thing for me being solo is.
it used to be comparison it's not comparison
anymore i guess it's continuing to stay motivated
and and putting in the time and it's really not
even that big of a thing but like if you told
me i have to choose one thing like what's the
worst what's the worst thing for me as a solo
person it's when i have to go scan and it's beautiful
out and i'd rather be at home in the yard barbecuing
uh we we use charcoal by the way it does taste
better dude versus gas or propane. Charcoal is
the way to go. You don't agree with me? Too bad.
There's no argument to be made here. It's final.
Charcoal is the best barbecue out there. And
if you can't figure it out, just YouTube it.
I don't have any videos, unfortunately. What's
on your other channel? That is probably the biggest
challenge for me, being by myself. It's not to
comparison. I'm happy for every single one of
you out there listening to this that are making
more money than me, making less money than me,
having the time of your life. It doesn't bother
me at all. Like if somebody's making a million
dollars doing exactly what I'm doing, keep on
crushing it. I'll be the biggest cheerleader
out there. I got over that probably two or three
years ago. I've always compared myself to everybody
else in the universe. So for me, it's probably,
if today's the day I got to thrift Johnny and
it's 80 degrees and it's beautiful and Deb's
like, hey, you want to grill today? Dude, I don't
know. Like, I'm probably going to grill and move
that sourcing day to another day if I'm going
to be honest with you. But that's like the freedom
I've established over the years of financial
discipline, I guess, and not having any debt
and having the emergency fund and having the
savings and the bank account. If I do have to
skip a day, a week, a month, six months, a year.
I'm going to be a -okay, right? So I guess it's
a little bit more security and my decision -making
isn't as forced as it would be for somebody that
needs to make that $100 by the end of the month
to pay the bills, right? You can't afford to
sit at home and barbecue on those days. You have
to put in the time so you can actually cover
your bills. So maybe that's be a piece of motivation
for somebody that does feel like they're forced
to go out and do things for the business when
they really don't want to. Well, if you need
money, well, then let's set a runway for, hey,
we want to have, you know, X amount of dollars
in the bank account. So when it's 80 degrees
out and we want to grill, we can grill instead
of me going out and, you know, doing whatever
the hell it is. I think that's kind of the big
difference between me and other people is I'm
not relying on making any money this month, next
month, six months, 12 months, two years, whatever
it may be. I have enough savings so I can have
these. decisions where if i don't feel like going
outsourcing i really don't got it but i still
like i still do it right but i mean there are
situations where the grill's ready to go dude
the hell with the thrift stores all right give
me some veggie burgers some veggie dogs deb throws
some corn on there maybe some vegetable kebabs
i mean i'm cooking dude so i think we're at the
point now where it's kind of like our day jaws
like we were done after day two like we we had
new is shiny day two i'm getting used to it and
it's the same forever and here on out blah blah
reselling i think there's a longer catch -up
time to it because you're in control of the new
and shiny object syndrome so everything's new
and shiny for a good period of time until you
settle in and then it's the same boring thing
after the same boring thing cvs is the same boring
thing from day one that's the only real difference
And yeah, we are working a job. I mean, it's
our job. We designed it. We can change up the
job. We can add in new divisions in our job if
we so choose. But, and like you said, we had
the flexibility of our own vacation and sick
day schedule. Jobs like CVS, not so much. We
may get one a year, maybe two. And that's it.
So, I think realizing that, that... You come
down to the realm of reality at some point in
a reselling career, and it is what it is. And
you're on an upward trajectory path, hopefully.
But it's going to be the same probably for years.
Just the reality of it, man. I think that's a
good way to look at it. Like, it's just, I mean,
we just do the same thing. Go to the same stores.
Like, the most excitement I get is like. I guess
having a bulk pickup or like possibly going to
a new store that opened up in my area that I'd
never been to. Right. Like, but after that first
time I go, like Johnny said, next time it's no
longer, it's no longer new and exciting. I know
this place. I know what's going on. I know the
type of stuff. It aged like 10 years since I
was here last week. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think
that really does play into it. And I think that,
you know, that weighs on people, especially when
you're doing this by yourself, like. oh here
i go again i gotta go to the same 10 stores today
johnny and i know they're not the best stores
and i know i'm not going to find any gold bars
but i'm going to find enough dollar bills that
hopefully is going to make it worth it at the
end of the road it's all just it all falls on
you and there's we all have different ways of
being motivated but you know you got our saddest
podcast we've ever done Dude, it's hard, man.
People are out here struggling doing this shit
by themselves. You're going to be bored. It's
going to be miserable. Yeah, there's a paycheck,
and yeah, you can take off whatever you want.
As long as the paycheck is worth it, then that's
all that matters to me. I would not do this.
If I was making no type of money, dude, I'm out.
There's easier ways. There's more satisfying
ways to make money. Hell, there's all these work
-from -home jobs. I don't even got to leave the
house. I know what to do. You need to go to CVS
for an hour once a year. So you remember, so
you remember and just watch the poor schmucks
working in there for an hour and then leave.
And you'd be like, yep, I'm free. I'm still free.
And I love what I do. That'd be the craziest.
Like, I'd be like, I would go thrifting for like
48 hours straight. I just go on a bender because,
you know, never again, never again. You don't,
you know, when you're away from it for a while,
you forget how crappy it was. I'll never forget
how crappy it was. It was just, you know, and
I'm appreciative of this opportunity, I guess.
I think for people that are brand new or maybe
somebody where it's kind of just fallen on your
lap or. You know, maybe you didn't come from
like a crappy experience or a crappy upbringing
where you were broke or you had a job that you
just absolutely hated. Like I said, it's going
to be different for everybody because we've all
been through different shit, right? Like we all
had different jobs. We all had different upbringings.
So like we all have a different reason why we
need to do it. You just got to stay motivated
by yourself. Get around people that are, you
know, uplifting, real down to earth, not just
bullshitting you that they found gold bars in
the thrift stores every day they go, yada, yada,
yada. Like if you get around real people that
are going to have real conversations, you might
not ever meet them in person. And that's a -okay.
Like you still can have real conversations about
business and feel like you're not like by yourself
out there in the universe, right? You go in these
stores, you see other people scanning. They don't
even say hi. They could care less about what
you're doing. That's A -OK. You just do you.
You get back to your safe space of being home
and in the group you're in that isn't toxic and,
you know, isn't, you know, always trying to drag
people down. You'll be A -OK. If that doesn't
work, turn on a little music. Turn on a little
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