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Old 07-12-2021, 04:01 PM
cliffrod cliffrod is offline
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Can you afford to go for broke? That's what it's all about. The only way to do it is to do it. By "broke," I mean money, home, marriage/family, etc. - lose everything that matters to you. don't trust fancy machines or luck or wishful thinking or what someone says they'll buy from you when you go into business unless they put big money in your hand now. You have to be smart, good, business/market savvy, lucky and much more.

TV shows aren't real life.....sometimes I wish I had a tv contract with guaranteed paycheck, merchandising agreements, potential syndication residuals, etc to supplement the income my studio does or doesn't produce.

I'm not a pro metal shaper, but my specialty career field is quite analogous. Feel welcome to contact me directly if you want to talk about real btdt experience. Glad to talk about what it's like to make everything except money for a living for decades and still love doing it.
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