Austin

O&G O.G. - Sales Mgr. - NCSA

Celebrated Contributor

When’s The Right Time?...

I have started, and am in the very early stages of, developing a brand in the medicinal marijuana space.

That said, the company / brand I am building is not off the ground, yet. But, I am at a point where my day job seems to be taking time away from where I feel my focus needs to be - though I’m grateful to have steady income. (I’m doing quite well, actually - making the decision to leave even more difficult).

I don’t know how unprofessional this may sound, but I almost want to play things out until I’m fired - which has never happened to me in my life - so that I might draw some sort of unemployment benefits while I devote myself 100% to my passion.

Any advice from anyone who’s been down this road before would be tremendously appreciated.

Thank y’all in advance for your help.

Best regards,

AB

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SalesPharaoh

Big Shot

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Senior Account Executive

Only leave the day job once the other opportunity starts tk bring in any sort of income

Salespreuner

Big Shot

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Regional Sales Director

Hard truth. Agree

Austin

Celebrated Contributor

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O&G O.G. - Sales Mgr. - NCSA

Thanks for shooting me straight. I appreciate your input.

Austin

Celebrated Contributor

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O&G O.G. - Sales Mgr. - NCSA

Thank you for your response. I appreciate your input.

Salespreuner

Big Shot

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Regional Sales Director

😇🙌

braintank

Politicker

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Enterprise Account Executive

What's your monthly income from day job vs MJ job?

Austin

Celebrated Contributor

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O&G O.G. - Sales Mgr. - NCSA

Day job = nice base + 2% rip. When they’re not stealing my accounts or totally stifling any new opportunity or generally not providing me with the ops support needed to move the needle.

Not that I’m one to complain...

braintank

Politicker

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Enterprise Account Executive

Do you have enough stocked away to live off it for 1-2 years? Don't look a gift horse in the mouth if you can do both.

Austin

Celebrated Contributor

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O&G O.G. - Sales Mgr. - NCSA

Thank you for the thoughtful perspective. And, yes, I do have enough saved to give myself 1 year before I would need to draw another paycheck.

braintank

Politicker

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Enterprise Account Executive

Do you have a product, or a brand?

Austin

Celebrated Contributor

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O&G O.G. - Sales Mgr. - NCSA

I have a “raw material” supplier & a supply chain already in place.

What I hope to achieve is getting seed money / investment capital, from an iconic... artist... that I happen to have an very close “in” with.

It’s the idea I sell first. Then I get the capital. Then I perfect the product... THEN I get the khakis (‘baseketball’ reference).

And the idea is gold. Feel
it in my bones. Can’t fail. (I know this sounds over confident.)

CuriousFox

WR Officer

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Gawd I love this expression. 💯

Austin

Celebrated Contributor

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O&G O.G. - Sales Mgr. - NCSA

@CuriousFox Thanks.

In the year since I posted this, embarrassing as it is to admit, I *did* fail… with the one group that had the license I was going to use in order to get my brand off the ground.

Any chance someone with your honed, business savvy, sharp mind & wisdom would want to help a player out and look at how this could be done??

I’ll admit this experience of stepping out & going “all in” has humbled the fuck out of me. I’ve all but given up on the dream, my friend. Gonna be back to the oilfield for this dumbass if I don’t figure something out, quick!

Lemme know if you’re interested in talking with me… Equity available.

Gottapumpthosenumbers

Opinionated

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Biz Dev

I'm actually in a very similar position. Juggling all of the thoughts and perspectives of going out on the entrepreneurial limb, I find myself inching closer and closer to "YOLO". Wishing you the best of luck when you do decide to take the plunge!

Austin

Celebrated Contributor

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O&G O.G. - Sales Mgr. - NCSA

Thanks sincerely for the encouragement. Best of luck to you in your endeavors, sir.

But, seriously - and be honest - how many times a day...?

Gottapumpthosenumbers

Opinionated

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Biz Dev

Lmao! If I had time for more than just rookie numbers, I think I'd be worried about myself.

+1 for being the first person to comment on that.

Austin

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O&G O.G. - Sales Mgr. - NCSA

Hahaha. 👍🏻

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