![]() It took over 2 years and more money than I had. It was about this time when things were really going good (as far as I was concerned) that my wife of 25 years went off the deep end. Life was even better that it had been before. I bought old machine tools and restored them in my more than ample spare time. I was able to spend time on the things in the shop that I wanted to do. With a very loyal clientele, and without the overhead of a staff, my business was 2x as profitable as it had been before, life was even better as I was working less and making more. I got rid of my staff, sold the commercial property, built a 40x40 pole barn on my residential property and continued to run my business on a smaller scale. Both my daughter and son had no interest in the family business that I built so I decided not to expand my business but to throttle it back and get smaller. My kids were high school age and we had a serious talk about my business. I got to the point where I either had to expand my business or throttle back and coast. ![]() I worked my ass off for about 5 years, paid off all my mortgages and debt, life was good. Within 18 months I had a staff of 3 employees and 3 factory franchises. The business took off and exceeded my business plan and put me on a roller coaster ride. After retiring from a 20 year military career, I bought a commercial property and opened a business.
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