In a message dated 9/17/2004 9:55:16 AM Mountain Daylight Time,
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> Ah, but Mike, you need to explain that even if you charged $125 an hour as
> company owner, you work 18 hours a day, seven days a week, and worry about
> making federal IRS quarterlies, workers compensation claims, lawyers fees,
> medical
> expenses, plumbing and computer costs, payrolls, and meeting overhead
> (vehicles, rent, utilities, secretarial and production staff) and still have
> something
> for your own personal expenses. How many company owners have invested
> personal savings when those things fall short and go to banks for loans to
> make
> payroll for the ungrateful field hands, and then have to deal with letters
> from
> attorneys and unhappy clients? That money dissipates like oil on water when
> you
> are a company owner.
>

Ain't that the truth?

Mike