Who shares this as their dream?

[Jacked Reefer]

If that’s what you insist on, then I guess that’s how it will work out for you.

I grew up poor and from a broken home with no support coming in from my father. My mother...well, she had a difficult time not making self-destructive decisions.

Seeing that, I made choices based on making sure I didn’t have to continue to live that life. I didn’t have 2 nickels to tape together, but I went out and put myself through school...twice. Both times, I chose the path of living the dream without going broke (zoology and secondary education) rather than working to set myself up really well financially. It was a conscious decision.

I’ve been working ‘professionally’ with reef aquariums for almost 30 years. I’ve owned my own business for about 16 years. I started it with the last paycheck I got from my old job. I didn’t need money up front, because I had a plan.

Happy to report that I have been in the black since 11am my first day in business. Have I gotten rich from it? Not financially rich. But I’ve done well, have worked for a bunch of interesting people, have worked with some of the top names in reefing.

You don’t need $$$ to get going. You need a plan.

You can very much get ahead with a plan. You also need connections, onowledge in some advanced math, deep knowledge of the economy, and a lot of patience and perseverance. All that makes it difficult so people tend to chalk it up to the system.

 

[Subsea]

Wait a dag gone minute..... you cant follow your dream unless you got serious BANK. What was Tonys networth before he fell into this hobby in Australia?

Yeah, Id love to follow about 20 dreams of my own but whos going to let me borrow $250,000 in startup costs just to start a single dream?

Knock knock, hello? Anyone have $250k laying around?

Rich get richer becoming dreammakers......while the middle class just die off with a wishlist in their dead hand with no capital


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While I don’t care to get caught up in social injustice discussion, aquaculture is a very risky business
venture. In the early days of my research, I read a tech bulletin from Florida Aquaculture on risk involved. Without many details the risk can be summed up this way,

“To become a millionaire in aquaculture, start out with 2 million.”

I pulled the plug when a 10K gallon in a greenhouse cost $1000 of electricity in the month of August.