I am 54 . I have been on my own for the last 12 years. I have learned one hard lesson. Surviving IS SUCCEEDING. Yes yes. The problem for me is i have ADHD + i maybe on the spectrum ( i never got diagnosed)+ dylexia and i can't write for shit. come to think about it im not that smart either. IDK. I have a one man shop online business. I only really have 1 skill . I only know how to sell. I grew up in NYC selling fake rolex watches to german tourist back in the day. I mostly worked in luxury retail on madison ave selling luxury handbags for like $30k a pop. I had a job i could not take direction then i started my own business. I launched in 2018 and then i found out that anyone can copy you at anytime. I had kind of a breakdown in 2024 when everyone started to copy my whole business. I kept going . Kept learning SEO / Google ads / enginerring now with Ai its the best thing that ever happened to me. I learned how to build feaures. I am not rich but i have freedom of time. I LOVE working out during the day. I love waiting for my daughter to get home from school. We have dinner together every single day. We went to mexico and NOTHING changed for me. I was still working making money. for me since i can't work in tech and no tech company will hire me. I only know sales so i think for me i had no choice but to launch a business. I am very happy right now. I hope i don't go out of business. idk if i have any suggestions but if you are not good with sales get good at it. Good luck to all the small players out there. i wish you success. This is a very good article i could never write like OP thank you for sharing. Just adding my 2 cents here.
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I am working on a Tesla Price tracker. I made $9 this week. ( I am happy i have business validation) I hope to add more subscribers. Tesla is dropping prices on its inventory. Cybertruck is being discounted by $6k now. I charge $9 to track 5 VINs and $20 to track 10 Vins. I set up stripe subscriptions and pull in the inventory from Tesla. Please check it out or if you know anyone shopping for a tesla and wants to get price drop notifications please refer to them - Thank you.
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I make $1.6k buy fee from dealers / wholesalers. I try to avg 10 sales a month. been going good. Think of it like a KBB clone. But im a one man shop. I am just calling buyers all day long. I source leads from facebook. Forums. I just copied the tesla trade in UI / site. IDk its going good. I just launched it. Nothing fancy, i know but its making loot. I am not looking to be a unicorn BS. no BS AI. its just me. :-)
This is not a price DROP. Tesla JACKED up prices on ALL models last year and people forgot about it and now TESLA just went back to the original prices. I been following them since 2016 and they have done this in 2018 with the MODEL S / X P100DL. Exact same shit happened with the first tax credit around 2017 with the release of the MODEL 3. I been scraping their inventory and you can plot the price changes and their used inventory prices are UPSIDE DOWN. Nothing new tesla normal behavior its just that a LOT of news outlets forget this that do not FOLLOW the price volatility. I am now thinking to do a youtube channel to lay it out. -2cents
"and now TESLA just went back to the original prices". sounds like there are multiple people that went back to original prices but they are trying to point out that the discussion is about tesla. If this was spoken, the emphasis I would place would be on original, "and now tesla just went back to the ORIGINAL prices"
Intonation. He writes by thinking aloud (or in his head) how he says it. Usually we type simply by following grammar. But the way you read a sentence can imply different meanings or subtle emphasis what matters or "between the lines thingy". You can see TESLA being capitalize seems to hint he is a bit emotional whenever TESLA topic being brought up. As poster commented below, he should be capitalizing ORIGINAL given his observations of past price volatility. But instead, TESLA is consistently capitalized. I could be wrong if he intended to use the stock ticker name TSLA (perhaps the E is typo).
Yeah, I am not a strong writer. I just write how i think. I have ADHD + dyslexia and I can't follow grammar. :-( Im just trying to get it out of my head as fast as possible. Thank you.
I think the price of a base model 3 went from 40k to 60k during covid. I don't understand why people are surprised it's going down now that the car shortage is coming to an end.
Indeed if you hibernated in early 2021 and just woke up, the prices would look kind of same.
But the other side of the coin is also interesting. Up to six months ago, they couldn't make them fast enough when they were selling the cars for $15-20k more. Now the inventory is piling even with incentives and discounts.
Price fluctuation is standard with virtually every product ever made. Prices rise and fall based on market circumstances. One day cables might cost more, another day the price of aluminium might go down. Last year prices of every goods went up dramatically. Haven't you been to the grocery store?
This is great perspective. Would be awesome if you could share a spreadsheet. So often things are reported in terms of "up X%" or "down Y%", when a simple line chart would tell a more complete and understandable story.
Not the original prices, actually. They're back to where they were in mid-pandemic. And "JACKED" is a bit spun. It was the market for used Teslas that drove the price increases. They got way above the retail prices; people were actually scalping Teslas. Someone was going to make that money, it might as well be the manufacturer.
Google = Ads. You can't find any REAL information on google. Idk maybe it's me. ChatGPT is just the start. ChatCGPT open AI or whoever is next will ALSO need to make money. I will PAY to use it i just do not want any super cookies following me ever where cookies tracking is like cockaroaches they do NOT die only get better at tracking. - 2centman.
In my own experience I am 50 years old today. I was diagnosed with pre-diabetes / metabolic syndrome with an A1C of 5.7.-(borderline). weight was 189 pounds. 2 years ago. I started IF. Giving up breakfast then slowly giving up lunch and now eating OMAD ( one meal a day). your BODY WILL get used to eating less. IF worked for me. It seems the MAIN problem is NOT total calories, I read a book by Gary Taubes called "the case for keto." I don't know about bio chem but in the book he said it is not the calories you eat but rather the type of food / calorie. MAIN problem is simple carbs / Sugar. ( slow carbs are veggies) . Simple carbohydrates spike insulin and the harmone insulin is the problem it stores fat. Exercise will just make you hungry. I do exercise , i enjoy running in a fasted state 4-5 miles a way and i do bodyweight muscle building training too. I am no longer pre-diabetic and A1C is normal. But i still gotta keep an eye on it. I dropped weight and and getting used to the keto diet + IF. We have a family history of diabetes in my family. ( dad. brothers. ) all have it and they are on meds. Doctor do not tell you about diet they just put them on Metaformin. I am 2 years on IF and keto and it worked for me. I weigh 165 now. All my blood work is back to normal. Main problem are the simple carbs and frequency of eating. Look around you we live in a carb word / sugar ads everywhere. It is VERY VERY hard to stay away from simple / carbs / sugar but you can do it. Eating healthy is NOT CHEAP either. I do tell my family to try IF and or keto but they are addicted to carbs and are all on metaformin or some diabetic meds. - 2 cents
Really happy for you and your successful health transformation!
But...this is a great example of something working for someone, and then they go on a crusade of why "it's the best" with lots of random untrue statements.
> It seems the MAIN problem is NOT total calories
No that is the main problem, and you got healthy by restricting them, which resulted in loss of weight, which resulted in an improved sensitivity to insulin.
> MAIN problem is simple carbs / Sugar.
Simple carbs and sugars are not more fattening on their own.
> Exercise will just make you hungry.
Exercise is the single best thing you can do to improve your metabolic health, even above dieting, which is great that you do that too.
> It is VERY VERY hard to stay away from simple / carbs / sugar but you can do it
I think when you say "simple carbs and sugars" you're referring to the droves of hyper-palatable, calorically dense packaged foods that are out there. These are not necessarily "dangerous" on their own, but they are easy to over-consume which leads to a caloric surplus, which leads to weight gain, and thennnnnn all the bad stuff follows.
I respectfully disagree. Even without a caloric surplus, you can develop metabolic disease from simple carbs and sugars being over represented in your diet. Your body can burn fat and it can burn sugar, and the fat burning pathway is generally more sustainable and healthy long term. Sugar burning pathways are there for quick bursts of energy. Overdevelop the glucose pathways and under develop fat burning pathways and you get a whole bunch of nasty diseases.
This is why there are some chubby people who are in better overall health than some skinny people.
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