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Old 23-06-2009, 11:58 AM
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As I suspected, my friend's dad is operating a smaller biz. He bragged about his 1mil turnover a couple of years ago. That's why I tell myself since small towkays like him can do so well, and even smaller towkays like my parents are doing not-too-bad too, what's stopping me from venturing out? (My mum did caution me that I have not seen enough failure cases...)
Your mum is right. While it's cool if you succeed, there's always a chance of failure. The opportunity cost for us is simply too high. I am 30 this year and getting $4k plus monthly. Not fantastic but really quite comfortable.

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Curious again, does your boss worry about his staff leaving the company to set up a competing firm?
Well. Maybe because when he left his former company, he poached away some of his ex boss's customers? He's also not too flexible in terms of his thinking. From what I can observe we are still operating on the same business model as when they started 25 years ago.

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