about the money issues. Reality is that the company I work for that is owned by him and I has spent about $600k of his money in the last year. He doesn't want to keep sending us $50k a month to pay our bills, we need to make enough money to pay for ourselves and then need to start making enough money to pay back his investment in the company. Luckily I'm only into the company for the $30k I have on a line of credit, but I can't afford to lose that either.
What he does as far as buying crap or gambling money away is hard to watch or understand, but it isn't about me, the guy has been broke and rich and broke and rich and right now is up the biggest upswing of his life and he has worked hard for it, risked everything to get to where he is and he deserves it. He isn't greedy and rewards the people that make him money well, unfortunately I've been involved with spending about $6-7mil in the last almost 2 yrs and haven't made him a single dime. He hasn't tossed me out on the street (like his sister is trying to do) and he is more optimistic then ever, but I have to make things happen on my end of the deal. I was kickin' ass and takin' names up until the bomb. It has been a long road back emotionally and mentally, the first 3-4 months post-bomb took a heck of a lot out of me, way more than I knew at the time. I think I'm standing on solid footing now and I'm starting to carry some of my load at work and can think about new stuff and ideas and plan, all stuff I couldn't do 2 months ago.
Last night at dinner some how the issue of my wife "keeping all her money for herself" came up and my BIL said "doesn't she help you with the bills" and he was shocked when I told him that she hadn't give me a dime until last month and that she'd paid the house payment last month and this month. He asked "how have you been paying for everything on your own" and I told him that is why I'm broke. He joked that "I must be paying you too much." He just kind of shook his head at the reality of what his sister is doing and has done. Family is everything to him and he knows we're more blessed than 99% of the world and he has told my wife that.
Anyhow I called my wife last night about 10pm, she answered on the 2nd ring and sounded half asleep. I asked her if I'd woken her up, if she was sleeping. She said she'd just laid down to go to sleep. She asked what I was up to, I told her about our day, then asked about hers and the boys going to work with her. We had a nice conversation, lasted about 7-8 mins, then I told her I'd let her get to sleep and goodnight and goodbye.
Have another couple meetings this afternoon with the bankers, need to keep pushing forward and find the gaps in our plans and fill them and start executing.
about the money issues. Reality is that the company I work for that is owned by him and I has spent about $600k of his money in the last year. He doesn't want to keep sending us $50k a month to pay our bills, we need to make enough money to pay for ourselves and then need to start making enough money to pay back his investment in the company. Luckily I'm only into the company for the $30k I have on a line of credit, but I can't afford to lose that either. 