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Same thing with consulting, a friend works for a consulting company that closes 1M+ projects. He on side make websites for small businesses. Everyone knows at his company, no issues so far.
And anytime I made exception to this rule, I always regretted it.
Finally, gave up and bought same nipples from Target. New nipples feel a lot more like old Slow-Flow nipples. Baby drinks from them just fine.
Amazon has lost me as a customer, will not be renewing Amazon Prime.
Unless you are withdrawing dividends and selling shares for income, it is not passive income. Just good ole regular investing.
And I don't how anyone can consider real estate passive income. It is a business with a lot of downtime but also some serious headaches. I have few properties, most of my tenets are nice. But when you get one bad tenet, it wipes all your goodwill towards any tenet. Then unexpected expenses wipe out years of profit in an instant. Finally, you hope one day the building will be paid off and you will live off rent checks, then you do some calculations and realize that you would have made almost same rent check if you had just invested your down payment in stock market.
Since then I have bought more TVs for myself and helped friends and family who were reluctant to order online. No bad experience so far.
A while ago, I worked for a consulting company that specialized in e-commerce with fulfillment. Soon I realized that their clients are mostly MultiLayer Marketing companies. MLM is legal but very unethical industry. Our clients referred to their customers as idiots or bored housewives. Some of my coworkers tried to quite their concise by convincing themselves and me that these people are lazy who are trying to get rich quick. So they deserve to lose their money. They would say it is a cheaper than business school.
I tried to tell myself that I am just a worker, just following orders. It was a good job with a lot of benefits but it was very soul crushing. Leaving that job was the best ever thing. My mental health improved the minute I handed my two weeks notice.