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I've been in business for myself for 20 years and in my current construction business for the last 13 years. My first business cost me 7 years of my life, thousands of hours and dollars. My second business has been a success. Most people will never know or want to understand what it is like to put everything you own on the line each day to build a business and meet a payroll. They don't want to know because they will never put it all on the line. That's OK it is their choice as it was mine to go after my dreams. Most of the time I just ignore the whiners but occasionally when it hits me the wrong way I will tell them that if they what more out of life, financially, that I will help them start their own business. They first need to decide how much money that they can afford to lose and second how long they can live without a paycheck (because the owner takes his check last). That usually ends the discussion.