My parents use to work for E-systems in Texas. They were both laid off when Raytheon bought them out so my step father started doing all kinds of weird shit for money, eg welding artisan stuff, sandblasting, and some other shit I forget. Well the sandblasting slowly made money so they kept upping their game and re-investing… fast forward about 4 years they are making a million profit by expanding the sandblasting to all kinds of blasting (soda, walnut, black beauty, glass bead), re-glazing windows, and minor concrete repair and I believe some powerwashing stuff. This fell in line at the time in Dallas when a lot of renovation was happening to the old warehouses were being converted to trendy lofts.
They were on the up n up, cadillacs and a 47 ft yacht on lake Texoma and our house was totally fixed up. Then they got a job to do the Sears building, they put all their money into hiring on a big enough crew to handle the job and buying more equipment. The story told to me was they should of made all the crew for that one job i-9 status instead of w-2 but didnt and while in the middle of the job a lot of change orders came down the pipe which delayed payment and somehow they fucked up on paying taxes for employee wages. So it was like all of a sudden they had like a 90k bill due to the IRS when no cash flow was coming in. They juggled it for a bit and sold all the nice shit but in the end shut down the shop.
“Congratulations! You’re having twins!”
Wasn’t rich but doing pretty good…but damn kids are expensive. But they’re cool so all is good. Who needs to travel anyway.
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My wifes Aunt used to be rich. Was married to a brain surgeon who was also on the board of directors for all the local hospitals so pulling down two checks. She was a platinum member of a local casino and would send us and other family members coupons for all inclusive weekend visits to the casino. You literally did not need to bring any money for anything. All food, drink, gratuity, ect was all taken care of. Anyway her husband had his medical license revoked for writing too many scripts for pain killers to her and other people and they both now live in Mexico somewhere.
When my dad found “the other woman”.