JPF Home Page Forums General Messages Brian Austin Whitney Blog Daily Distractions 12-16-2017 (Best Advice EVER)

Cheyenne,

I thought initially you thought it was bad advice on your first post, so maybe I misunderstood. I made EVERY mistake of doing what I was "supposed" to do and still regret ALL of it. So I wish I had done it your way. It took me way more courage to finally pull the plug from jobs I despised and working for people I despised and trying to help people within those terrible jobs, often using myself as their human shield when I was middle management and I stood up on their behalf against my own bosses which was career suicide for me. (Thankfully... it was a "life" at that point that needed to end). I only wish those a holes I worked for/with all those years (with a couple brief exceptions) would have had mercy on me and fired me straight up, I would have left that nonsense behind and perhaps made JPF more into what I had hoped sooner and caught the first net wave while keeping my instincts and values intact WITH resources. At the tail end of the Internet Boom as the bust was coming and people with lots of money and no clue what to do with it, I was offered 8 million dollars for JPF and turned it down. There was SOOOO much nonsense attached to it I just said no and walked away to their astonishment. It was a company with WAY too much money and no real idea what to do with it so they wanted to buy my vision but insert all their non-vision BS which kept them from having their own passion project.

Ahhh... the stories we could tell if only there was enough gas in the tank.

Brian