55, Unemployed and Faking Normal: A Warning

[Tupac in a Business Suit]

I don’t disagree with anything you’re saying. It’s very brave to give up normal for something you’re passionate about and I applaud her efforts. She was actually successful for a bit though, I tried and failed like a bish. With that said she needs to find a balance of work and passion to maintain her finances.

I think what’s confusing or harder to believe, is her being unable to find employment. Her education and experience are “enough”, especially in DC. I don’t want to make too many conclusions without the details, but everything presented doesn’t add up, IMO.

Personal experiences included, I know quite a few people younger than her suffering from the same thing. Clearly qualified to handle anything based on the level of education and credentials but cannot get a call for an interview. Employers today want nothing to do with you if you have tried to strike it out on your own as an entrepreneur. I personally believe there is a culture of fearlessness that an entrepreneur brings to an office setting that is infectious.

 

[ExodusNirvana]

Lost me at being recruited for and leaving highly selective $200K job at The World Bank in DC, to opening up a boutique store to sell African art as a sole source of income; while using all of her accumulated retirement and savings to fund that hobby while having an MBA from Harvard and Masters in Intl. Studies from Johns Hopkins. All those degrees and knowledge but no common or practical sense to make it make sense.

Everyone is an entrepreneur until they're broke

 

[Nicole0416_718_929_646212]

I needed to see this for myself.
Keep your day job. Let your "yessir boss corporate/government" gig fund your real dreams...save and invest. Maybe even partner/collaborate up and let others run your business dreams until its truly self sustaining.





Grandpa Breh got a nice crib and some gilf poon if she in the mood, while he can still hit the DC streets and live his best urban hippy faux rastafarian life ....

That shyt is wild. I need to hear grandpa brehs story- got on homemade shorts, , hipster, living his best life type of vibe. Someone needs to track him to do an interview or something. So many questions.
It's hilarious that there are all these 20s-30s yr old IG thots on display, tricking off dudes just to have money for their light bill and 62 yr old. grandma brehette, with 2 advanced degrees still found her a man to literally save her from being on the streets. I'm dying to know how they met and what the approach was.

It really is true though - people with real money don't flaunt or stunt with it

 

[Nicole0416_718_929_646212]

Everyone is an entrepreneur until they're broke

That's deep. So much wisdom in a simple statement.

 

[RennisDeynolds]

She has the Harvard MBA network at her disposal not to mention the Johns Hopkins alumni network and still unemployed


Must be a complete wacko on some "free spirit" shyt

 

[ExodusNirvana]

That's deep. So much wisdom in a simple statement.

I mean I get it though

I don't like having a boss or people to answer to. shyt feels like you're not in control of your own destiny or life.

I can totally get that feeling, and understand why people try to do their own thing

But I can also totally pay my bills...so off to work I go in order to continue doing that

 

[JT-Money]

Why doesn't she have a better network to hit people up for jobs? Even if it's just freelance work anything is better than nothing. Can't she get a family member or friend to move in and split the bills? Where are her kids if she has any? She sounds lazy to me and probably thinks she's too good for certain jobs.

 

[Nemesis]

Great post OP. Very enlightening.

But as an Harvard MBA, she's doing something wrong. I'm sorry.

not really ....

Ive been involved in management consultancy and my younger brother is a top tier consultant , a Harvard MBA would enable you for example to go to the head office of the Mcdonalds corporation and devise a strategy where the corporation increases its turnover by 10%

But it would be mostly useless if you were running a single store on the boulevard

 

[phcitywarrior]

not really ....

Ive been involved in management consultancy and my younger brother is a top tier consultant , a Harvard MBA would enable you for example to go to the head office of the Mcdonalds corporation and devise a strategy where the corporation increases its turnover by 10%

But it would be mostly useless if you were running a single store on the boulevard

I should have clarified. I’m not talking about her being a business owner. I’m talking about being a Harvard MBA and still being unemployed.

HBS has the best alumni network out there. If she hustled hard, she should be able to land even a basic corporate position. She was at the World Bank, she could leverage that into a consulting type role.

Running a business is a different matter.

 

[NinoBrown]

That is how it used to work. Nowadays companies track your outside business activities. The minute they see that you have outside interests that conflict with your current employees, best believe they would have found a way to get rid of her. They aren’t paying her to fund her dreams. That’s not how this game works.

I sign the disclaimer at past and I keep my second career going anyway. I've used company resources to build my own websites and take care of side business tasks while on the clock....I just don't care....

 

[Nemesis]

a lot of people that dont know shyt about shyt in this thread .......

The problem with most people of limited thought is that their perception of whether someone was smart or stupid is based purely on the outcome ....

This woman done what most people do that run their own business ,

and their are tons of millionaires , billionaires that walked out on their jobs , took a risk to do their own thing and were successful

and are hailed as visionary and geniuses , and some of you same stupid people criticising this woman if she were a successful you would be hailing her


what none of you seem to understand is when it comes to running your own business you can do everything right and it still fails, and you can make mistake after mistake and ultimately be successful

To the dummies that said she should have kept her own job and done the shop as a side hustle ......lol right

you put someone else in charge of your business and not devote yourself to the running of it 100% and see where it goes .....

and Im not saying thats bad advice, what I am saying is that the reality is leaving a well paying job to start your own thing is a risk, starting your own thing and putting someone else in charge of your business is an equal risk ....

Luck and timing play a massive part in whether you are going to be successful ,

There are certain intangibles that play a part for better or worse that will always be out of your control

And thats why its always a fukking gamble........ but as usual the theoretical experts who have never run shyt think its that clear cut .... a lot of you need to stay in your lane

 

[Nemesis]

I should have clarified. I’m not talking about her being a business owner. I’m talking about being a Harvard MBA and still being unemployed.

HBS has the best alumni network out there. If she hustled hard, she should be able to land even a basic corporate position. She was at the World Bank, she could leverage that into a consulting type role.

Running a business is a different matter.

personally I think her being over 35, black ,a woman and being overqualified for a basic corporate position is the main reason why she is where she is

where I personally think she fukked up is that she should have known that all of the above would be a factor and she should have had a plan bcd through to Z

 

[karim]

Yeah, traditional brick and mortars were going under way back then. You can only succeed with a b/m front if it has a strong business model, and art/music is surefire way to go bankrupt unless you have major donors....

Ebay eliminates overhead big time....how is she a business pro and not see that wave coming?

In the mid nineties of course she didn't see that wave coming Brick and mortars didn't go out of business because of online competition in 1999.

Besides, she said her problem was that her suppliers couldn't produce the amount of products she needed. But y'all coli experts would have to actually watch that video to know that.

 

[thelonious21]

I think the issue MOST of us is having here is that she has an MBA and speaking as if she has a GED in regards to opportunities