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er thought would be possible using my brain to make a living instead of my back in focusing solely on my job for the past four or five years however i ve veered away from this part of my life i ve been trying to get back into it lately though and i ve started enjoying it again with that said if i m going to get things moving again i m also thinking it s time to upgrade the facilities too to do that i called my friend josh he s canadian so if the new site sucks he s used to being blamed for shit and asked him to create a very basic website for me using wordpress as the blogging platform blogger s been awesome to me but i prefer wordpress because there s more i can do with it i didn t want anything crazy in terms of site design just a really bare bones black and white template that features whatever text i m putting up that day it s pretty empty right now but the sides and everything else will fill in if and when shit starts happening again will anyone care who knows as always i m doing this for myself so even if everyone completely drops off and i m the only one reading i ll still just keep going because i like doing it the new site address is standingonthebox com i m moving away from the whole clublife deal because it s probably been about five years since i ve even set foot in a nightclub much less bounced at one metaphorically however and yeah i know this might be stupid but fuck it i ve never really moved off the box either in my head or in life i m still watching waiting for trouble so from now on everything s switching over there we ll see how this goes posted by rob 4 00 am friday may 31 2013 this is why business sucks if you have talent you work hard and you expect the people you work with to have talent and work hard too you re bound to be disappointed too often that s not how professional life works when you re good at what you do your work ethic matches your competence and you expect your coworkers to hit those same standards you re an outlier and things will suck for you because people will catch on and begin defending themselves against any change in the status quo people who suck want to continue to suck that s just how it is going into business for yourself or forming a startup venture with others doesn t immunize you against the same suck you ll find in corporate jobs like the one i m always bitching about either far from it in fact when you come up with a solid concept and you implement it and start making money you can expect the following six things to happen 1 people who want something for nothing are going to sue you this is what useless people do and there s nothing you can do about it aside from retaining a good lawyer and putting him or her on speed dial no matter how original your idea is or how hard you ve worked to get your business started there will always be people who want to take it away from you 2 no matter what steps you take to protect yourself people will blatantly copy steal your intellectual capital your business plan and your methods of doing things this is because original ideas are impossible to come by for people who don t have any talent and refuse to put in the work necessary to dig said ideas out of the earth as soon as you develop something worthwhile they ll circle like vultures and unfortunately shotguns are strictly forbidden in this genre 3 a large percentage of the people you hire work with or consult with will eventually develop egos and think they deserve to have their name on the door the idea of making money for someone else with no recognition other than your weekly paycheck has a short shelf life when people see you succeed they ll want that same success for themselves not as a member of a successful team but as the actual boss if they re looking to go off and hang out their own shingle wish them luck and buy them a drink but when they start claiming your original idea as their own telling others that they were the brains behind the business that s where you ll run into problems 4 if you don t watch them like a hawk people will attempt to bleed you dry most people don t work nearly as hard as they claim they do you have to judge the quality of someone s work by the results they re getting and not by the hours they re putting in as i ve said here before if the first thing someone i m working with crows about is the number of hours they re putting in every day i m automatically skeptical because i ll start wondering why it s taking them so fucking long to produce less work than i m doing in a quarter of the time 5 you will eventually spend 90 percent of your time dealing with other people s bullshit instead of doing the work required to build and maintain your core business sad but true once you ve implemented your idea and built the framework of a solid business stupid shit takes over and rather than continuing to do what you ve been doing you ll be busy mediating meaningless disputes between people you likely shouldn t have involved yourself with in the first place 6 you learn that the unemployment rate is so high because a massive percentage of the population simply isn t worth hiring true story we ve been looking to fill the same two or three positions for months now these jobs pay fairly well and they offer a shitload of incentives along with a lot of freedom you d think finding qualified people would be easy but it s not because everyone we ve interviewed for these jobs has royally sucked this has applied to everyone from new grads to people who claim to have decades of experience to a man and woman they ve all been woefully mediocre which explains a great deal about recent economic statistics posted by rob 4 00 am thursday may 30 2013 access like all the other suckers looking for shortcuts i enthusiastically read tim ferriss s the four hour workweek a few years ago i was really into it at the time because i was stuck in a shitty corporate job back then and the book s whole selling point is the idea that it s possible to get out of that situation permanently by implementing lifestyle design concepts that create income streams that you don t have to put continuous work into i e you don t fuck with them and they don t fuck with you i m not here to critique this book i have no problem with it what ferriss claims is possible absolutely is possible even though his book isn t exactly the blueprint i ve used for my career which has taken some interesting turns over the past year or so much of what he advocates isn t really my scene but it was a fun read and at the time it was interesting to see someone game the system read the publishing industry the way he did my problem now is with people who use ferriss s book as the absolute bible for everything they do chief amongst these offenses at least when i m dealing with people in business is the idea of being completely out of touch with everyone in the world until you re damned good and ready to answer your email or return phone calls because the four hour workweek was so popular we re now confronted with thousands upon thousands of thirty something self styled entrepreneurs who intentionally delay responding to communications for weeks on end and who tell you they need to schedule fifteen minute phone conversations two weeks in advance my advice for what it s worth if you re a guy who s doing this shit you have to stop i m very busy too i ve got a shit ton going on professionally i have a shit ton happening personally and i m also trying to get back into writing for something other than work although i ve been addressing cutting all the fat out of my life for productivity purposes lately my days are still extremely full that s why it s fucking infuriating when people i m talking about guys who want and need to do business shit with me not people i m soliciting for stuff take several days to respond to communications i especially despise it when they say shit like yeah i can do a phone meeting how about a week from thursday at 8 30 am horseshit you re not that fucking busy the president isn t that fucking busy i m writing about this because i deal with these types every single day and i ve actually stopped working with several of them because they ve pulled this shit it s great to be in total control of your own time and to be able to prevent people from disrupting you when you need to focus but the flipside of this is that taking excessively long to respond to people is disrespectful and it ll piss them off when you re dealing with responsible adults who keep regimented schedules and appreciate considerate behavior from their colleagues and business associates this isn t the approach you should be taking in fact i just fired someone who was running this little game with me before i broke it off i asked him if he d read the four hour workweek and he said it was his favorite book i told him i couldn t work with someone who took a week to get back to me every time i asked him a question and i severed the relationship now he s frantic to get my business back tough shit dick show some respect and we ll talk i ve often said that i miss the rotary phone era and the idea that you didn t know who d called you during the day until you got home at night and saw a note on the kitchen table or a blinking answering machine tablets and smartphones can certainly be invasive if we let them abuse us and it sucks to be constantly reachable by everyone on the fucking planet this level of accessibility is wonderful for professional reasons but personally i prefer to stay far off the grid until i want to be in touch our reality however is that we are reachable the technology we all own means we re only a text or email away from whoever needs to communicate with us putting yourself as out of touch as some of these guys do is both absurd and offensive and it makes people not want to work or do business with you do this selectively or don t do it at all posted by rob 4 00 am wednesday may 29 2013 situations the first thing i mentioned last week was my plan to black out all social media and to severely curtail my abusive email checking for a week now i ve taken a serious crack at both of these things my efforts have been partially successful the facebook situation this part worked i signed off for the last time in the middle of last week and i ve only been back on once since then to temporarily deactivate my account from now on i ll only be using facebook for email purposes it s an very effective way to find people if you have no contact information for them but for me that s going to be the extent of my usage i don t miss it i haven t needed it and i ve recaptured a shitload of lost time by not using it deactivation is kind of a symbolic measure because logging back on is all it takes to reactivate a dormant account but i m making a statement to myself that i m no longer going to waste my time getting annoyed by stupid memes shitty grammar and dumb announcements from people i used to know in the nightclub business very rewarding and very productive the gmail situation i really suck at this i ve definitely cut down a bit on checking my email but i m still prone to using my gmail tab as a default click whenever i take a break from anything what s worse that inner clock i wrote about last week is still going off the one that compels me to move away from whatever i m doing to check my email because i think something must have come in since the last time i looked it keeps happening and it s annoying i can t use site blockers because i need to use email fairly often for work purposes but i also need to get things on some kind of hourly schedule the plan is to keep working on this until i get it right the calendar situation this was a very simple fix every night before i go to sleep i fill out my calendar for the entire next day when i wake up in the morning i just stick to the schedule i ve laid out this plays to one of my strengths i can be a lazy obnoxious piece of shit and i ve been known to procrastinate like a motherfucker but i ve never been late for anything in my entire life i ve operated on a fifteen minutes early timeframe since i was a kid this isn t something i was taught by anyone either i ve just reasoned out over the years that lateness is the ultimate sign of disrespect for other people and i refuse to engage in it using a calendar instead of a conventional to do list has helped me see tasks in terms of time as opposed to a nebulous list of shit that eventually needs to get done this is about starting things more than it is about finishing them if you tell me something s due tomorrow morning i ll get it done but i might wait until four in the morning to start working on it tell me i have to start the job today at 7 am however and i ll be there at 6 45 drinking a cup of coffee and getting ready to go that s just how i ve always been and the calendar method works well for me the idea situation last week i came up with an idea that i want to try it s a writing project about something i ve been experiencing lately and i think it would interest a lot of people i d also like to start writing again about an actual topic and not just about myself and my attempts to get my shit together i know i said i was going to implement this idea this week but here s the thing it s an idea that s grown on me and i don t want to waste it by just vomiting the thing out on the page i want to make sure i put some thought into doing it right and making it good and i also need to talk to a few involved people to make sure it s cool with them for me to write about this when everything s settled in that regard i ll get moving on it posted by rob 4 00 am tuesday may 28 2013 fonts i have no idea why this entire fucking blog is now in an italicized courier font what a shit show sorry posted by rob 4 31 pm dusted msonormal font size inherit important font family inherit important font style inherit important my girlfriend we ll call her m needed to start cleaning out her office last weekend she s taking a new job after ten years with the same company using the same office the entire time and clearing out a decade s worth of shit isn t the easiest thing to do unless of course you re accompanied by an irritable impatient profusely sweating prick who has no emotional attachment to anything in your office and who yells at you whenever you take more than three seconds to decide whether to throw something away when m finished cleaning off her desk she went to a utility closet and brought back a product called dust off which she sprayed on her laptop and desktop keyboards dust off is a can of air that you shoot at your keyboard through a small straw it blows all the dried chewing tobacco flakes sorry dust out of all the little crevasses in your keyboard it s very effective i switched to a macbook pro a few months ago and i ve been trying to keep this thing in virgin condition finding dust off that day was a very exciting thing for me i watched m spray down her keyb...