 It's DDK, and I'm back with Vantalk episode. Oh, y'all got some questions, and you wanna know the answers, babe. I'm here to answer them. But before we get into Vantalk, I need you guys to smash that like button. And also, if you're not subscribed, smash that subscribe button. I'll give you guys a lot of free game. All I'm asking, if you smash the subscribe button, and also smash that like button. And let's try to get this video to 1,000 likes. We already trying to get right. Let's go. Okay, so question number one comes from at Jeff Little. And he says, first, he says that he can't speak for everyone else, but he appreciates everything that you've given out on this channel for free. And then he says, his question is, besides needing his authority, BOC-3, and UCR and commercial insurance, is there any other documentation that he needs to run his van? I'm gonna tell you the honest truth. I don't know nothing about what you're talking about. I don't know nothing about MCs and DOTs and BOC-3s and 1534567910s. All I know is I try to go out there and get in. Honestly, that's over the road stuff and I do not do over the road. So I don't have my own authority. So I'm not gonna send you off until you need to get this, this, this. Cause I honestly, to be honest with you, I have no clue at all. I don't even really know what a BOC-3 is. I looked it up, but it's, I don't know. I'm just, look, I'm just gonna tell you the truth. I do not know. I do not have an MC. I do not have a DOT. I do not have a BOC-3 and whatever else. I don't have any of that. I use a carrier company. So I don't have to deal with all that. So honestly, I'm sorry I couldn't answer your question, but from what I think, I'm thinking, I'm thinking, remember, I'm thinking. I think that you may be okay with those things. I'm not for sure though. So I don't know. I'm sorry, I just don't know. Okay, question number two comes from At Third Element. And he says, going back to the question he asked last week, can he put his van in the business if it's not a logistics business and still use it for logistics? Absolutely, you can absolutely do that. Guess why? Because we did it. So we put the van in our one LLC and then we added to the logistics company after we already put the van in the LLC. So all of it is under the same umbrella. So you should be good with that. You shouldn't have any issues. Hey, go out there and just get busy. A lot of this stuff is technical and me, personally, I'm sorry. I'm just a very technical person. I just go with the flow. My business partner, she helps me with a lot of this stuff, guys. I don't know nothing about that paperwork and all that stuff like that. She's more of an expert than me. I just know how to go out here and get busy. That's really all I know how to do. But you definitely can use it for logistics even if the company does not say logistics on it. It's pretty sweet. You already got the LLC, put the van out there and go out there and get that money. Gotta get this money, understand me. Understand me. He also says, do you know if it's possible, do you know how it's possible to get dedicated routes without cargo insurance? That's very seldom that's gonna happen. You can go to T-Force Logistics and you can go under their insurance. You don't have to go get your own insurance. You just go under there. They're gonna take some money out every week, two weeks, or a month. I'm not sure exactly when. But they're gonna take the money out your payments and then you just do it that way. As far as just going under there without any insurance, I don't think any logistics company is really gonna do that. I'm just being honest with you. We barely low-key supposed to be doing this, doing over eastern DoorDash and all that stuff. They low-key want us to have commercial insurance with that. So I know if you're picking up some items that cost more than that, they're definitely gonna want you to have some type of insurance. Or they probably won't let you on board. Unfortunately. Believe you me. I really want you to go out there and get busy too. I really wish you didn't have to, but you do, hey, it's their rule, it's not mine. And then last, he says, in your opinion, what's the best way to average 250 a day after gas using GigApps? You want me to tell you the truth? I don't really know. Because it depends on where your market is. Where you are at, what's popping in your market. Because some people out there going crazy, like my guy, Smith Brothers Transportation. He in, I think he in New York or New Jersey, somewhere out east. He going crazy out there. He making 7, 800 and he going crazy using dispatch and different apps. It really depends on where you are at. If you want kind of almost like some guarantee money, you could go with like a GOMO. You go with GOMO. I think we made like 250 with GOMO. You're gonna be delivering the small packages. Oh, you can do that. You go ahead and do that. You can pretty much, that's kind of like a dedicated route. They have routes every single day, money through Sunday. You can go there, let them know you want to be on board, talk to them and everything, and you can get busy like that. Because they do have routes every single day. You pick up at five in the morning, you run it that way. And I think that we can get like 250 and you can pick your area that you want to go to. So you can go with GOMO, and then you can go with Amazon Flex, Flex, Flex, Amazon Flex. You can get busy on Amazon Flex, but you ain't gonna get like 250 every single time you do a route. But you can just do like two or three routes and go crazy like that. That's what I recommend. What you think? Yeah, packages, ship driver. Oh yeah, ship driver. I forgot about ship driver. You can download ship driver. Look, I got videos on all this. GOMO, Amazon Flex and ship driver. I have three of those, three different videos on all of them and how much I made and how long it took and everything. All info is in the video. So all you gotta do is type in cards and quiz on YouTube and then type in whatever video you want to see and this shit will pop up. Question number three comes from AtdariusNorthern. He says, what's your approach to doing your taxes? Additionally, what tracker app do you use for mileage? What's my approach from doing the taxes? So honestly, we have two separate things. Like I have some of the gig apps in my personal name under my social security number. So we're gonna get 1099s for that. And then we also have like the carrier company and other apps on the business side. So we're gonna separate each of them. I wanna find my personal taxes and then the business is gonna find this almost taxes separately. And for, I just wanna give you guys kind of a tip. I don't know if you guys write off like gas or anything, but me personally, what we do is do we use the mileage? The mileage you're gonna win every time with the mileage. With the mileage, you probably, low-key ain't really gonna be paying that much taxes. But me personally, I do try to pay more taxes because if you want to like buy property or anything, you're gonna have to, on paper, make money. So if you can text returns back from them and it's saying that you are making nothing in the business, then you're not gonna be able to buy me property or anything. So that's the reason why I always make sure I pay taxes because I need for Uncle Sam to give me some of them bands. Now, as far as the tracker app, like as far as mileage goes, honestly, we do not use any app. And the reason we don't use any app is because we bought the van on December 31st. So from the first on down, it's gonna be all in one swoop. So next year, what we're gonna do is you write the mileage down at the end of the year and then you start over again and do it that way. That's the easiest way for us to do it. I don't know how you guys do it. Come on below and let me know. How do you do your taxes? Question number four also comes from at Darius Northern and he says, just, this is a fun question. Do you watch a battle rap? And if you do, who's your favorite? Honestly, I never really was into battle rapping like that. I don't, I never really watched. I seen the babies a couple of shorts and stuff on YouTube and all that. But honestly, I've never really watched it. The only battle rapper I've heard was, is his name, Sirius Jones. I just know him because I heard the names before, Sirius Jones. And now I know that Math Hoffa was a rapper just because he got the podcast, but other than that, I don't really know. It's Cassidy, I think Cassidy just said, Cassidy just started battle rapping. So I don't really know about battle rapping like that. That ain't really my thing, but huge shout to all the battle rappers. You know, I'll be having, you know, I got my little cup of bars and all that. You know, you know, you know. He also says, are you dropping any new bars in 2024? I low key thought about doing a mixtape. I ain't gonna lie. I thought about doing a mixtape. I thought about doing some songs, but I don't know if I'm really gonna do it. I think that I may try to get some of the artists. All the artists that was usually on the channel before, the songs I was playing before, if you go back way when, the reason why I stopped paying them is because they had a lot of cussing in there and YouTube was kinda not really monetizing my stuff as much as I wanted it to be. So that's why I kinda took those songs off and just go with the beats now. But I do wanna make some couple tracks with some of the artists that's had songs on the channel, like Celebang, Grimy, Auto Two Times, R&D Bishop, and like a couple of people that, Nick G, all of them, I definitely would do a track with all of them. You know, I tried to get my bars up. You know, it's different when you, I did have a couple of songs. I don't know if y'all know this, baby, but I did have like, I had a ball, when I went to, when I was in Job Corps, I had about like eight songs. We had a little, maybe a miniature mixtape. We had a, you know, we would do it like that. Yeah! I do ace. Shout out to my guy, Myron. Myron Gibbs. If you watch him, he'd be watching the channel. Shout out to him. He is, I think he is somewhere in Illinois, but he'd definitely know about the tracks we had. We was going crazy. Question number five comes from At Smoke. And they say, a while back you did a thing for Curry to get people on the platform if they showed up to this meeting. Do you have anything like that coming around for people who missed out for that app or any other apps? Because the wait lists are extremely long. I wish I did. Honestly, Curry reached out to me about that. And they said they coming to Chicago, get the people, I got the people and they went. That's what I'll be trying to tell you guys. You have to seize the opportunities when they're there. I don't know if it's ever gonna happen again. I don't know if any other app is ever gonna reach out to me. I do have apps reach out to me here and there in the past previously. But other than that, they really haven't been reaching out as of lately. If they do, I definitely will be posted on the channel so you can come out here or walk there if you are out here and they can sign you up. Cause they was signing people up right on the spot. If you was on the wait list, they would point you right off the waiting list. You can get the orders right then. So that's the benefits of, you know, sometimes you got a network. I know all of us don't want to all the time. I know you don't want to go to this thing. You don't feel like going. I don't even feel like going. But sometimes you just have to do what you have to do. And honestly, the turnout was pretty good. So huge out to everyone that came out to the Curry event, baby. Question number six comes from at Danny boy. And he says, who is the carrier company that you did the three month review on about nine days ago? I ain't telling you that. See certain stuff. Certain stuff I just cannot tell you because I'm under confidentiality contract. I can't be, you know, telling all my sources. I do have three new people that I'm trying to get on with right now. I'm all I'm gonna say is this. Go to Indeed. Go to this all I'm gonna say. I'm gonna give you some game right now. Go to Indeed. Type in independent, independent contractor or type in cargo van owner operator. Just go in there, type in your area and type in that you will find a lot. There's plenty of carry coverage that you could choose from. Go in there, type in independent contractor or cargo van owner or something like that. Most of the different things and search to there. You're gonna find some carriers. All you have to do is have the insurance. They're gonna want you to fill out all these 3000 per million paperwork, all this paperwork, and then they will let you go out there and get them vans. I hope you guys understand. Question number seven comes from at Bob church. And he says, have you ever thought about adding another van with a driver? Huge shout out to my guys. That Henry Bob, Bob church. Make Henry Bob. Make Henry Bob. My God, make Henry Bob. Honestly, before I did think about, yes, we need to get another van and all that stuff. But I want to say this. Sometimes we try to move too fast and I was trying to move too fast and I wasn't gonna get no cash. I was gonna be, I was gonna put myself in a bond. You wanna know why? I was gonna put myself in a bond was because I don't even have consistent work with this van. So it doesn't make sense to me to get another van and I got two vans. I gotta figure out work for this van and that van. So that's really why I did not move on that yet. Also, if we did get another van, I will only allow my business partner to use the van. I do not wanna deal with no employees. I do not wanna deal with it. I do not wanna deal with it. I do not wanna deal with nobody answering the phone or they overslept and they supposed to go over and do this, they ain't go. And, you know, we have thought about doing a lot of different things, but you have to allow other people and I do not like allowing other people because they gonna let you down every time. They may do good in the first beginning or they might do bad in the first beginning. But eventually they don't start not coming and all that stuff and I don't really got time for all that. And what happens if a route is supposed to go out and the person who's supposed to do it is not there, now I gotta go do it. What if I gotta route myself? So now it's just too much confusion going on. So my business partner can maybe get in the van, maybe my mom, maybe some people that I know very, very close and I know for sure that they gonna go do what they need to do. Other than that, to the public, I don't know if I see it happen. I'm just gonna be honest. I already don't want no employees. I know all being in Boston all that stuff is different nowadays. People don't really wanna work like that. So that's what I gotta say about that. Question number eight comes from at Susan Jenkins and she says, is it necessary to go ahead and get your DOT, MC and LLC in place before you research your market? No, do not do that. Do not do that. Research, research, research first. You need to research the stuff first to even know if it's gonna be even feasible for you to even get a van or get a box or get whatever you're gonna get. Make sure you do your homework first. You have to do research first. And once you got enough research, you got enough stuff done, then you can move on to getting the MC and DOT and all that stuff. Do not, you're doing it backwards. Do not do that. Please do not do that. Please do not do that. Cause what if you get the MC, DOT and all that stuff and LLC, you pay this money to get all that stuff and then there's no work in your area. So you need to know if it's work in the area first. Don't do it backwards. Do the research, then go from there. She also asked, do you need commercial insurance right away when starting out using your own car? Absolutely not. Just go in there. You're gonna send them that little certificate thing, that little piece of certificate from your insurance company. Put that in the apps and you're gonna go out there and get busy. You ain't gotta worry about nothing. They ain't gonna ask you to get no extra insurance. I signed up with all of the apps that I signed up with, with regular insurance. I did not change anything. I just sent them that little card in when they asked for insurance and I got busy like that. Question number nine comes from At Third Element. And they say, what is the video setup you have for your van because it's fire? The video, what do you mean by video setup? Oh, we got the kid. We got this, right there, right there. So let me show you. Let me show you the little, we on one GoPro right now, right? That's the one she recorded me on. Then we got this. This go right here. Wamski, that's right there. That's for the driving footage right there. I'm gonna take you guys to the back of the van right away. So we are in the back of the van to get these vans. As you guys can see, we've got a little thing right here. This clip is so, you can see the angle from this way when they put the pallet in there. Pause. And then we have another one right here. So we put one GoPro right here and then we put the other one right here. We also did have a mount right here but it keeps on falling off cause it's getting too cold. We put a mount right here. So when I'm loading everything from this way from the side of the van like this, whoop, you can see it from that angle right there. So that's the setup for the van. And that's what it is, baby. Oh yeah. And one more thing. I do have the harness. This is my chest harness. I put this around your drone like this. I'm gonna say, y'all have never really seen my setup, my kid. Let me show y'all right quick. Put this drone right here. I got this from Target. They have them at Target. They have them at Amazon. You clip it right here. Whop, and you put the camera right here. This one, these clips broke. So you just start to drone on here like this. Whop, put that drone right there. That's how I get busy, like that. But shout out to you for asking that question and shout out to everyone that has asked the question. Make sure you guys smash that like button. This video needs to get to 1,000 likes. And if you're not subscribed, make sure you also smash the subscribe button. Next question. Question number 10 comes from at Jumpstart. And they say, do people get weird about the camera and do you get a writing release to post them on YouTube? That's a good, camera, and then the camera questions. Two camera questions right in the road. Some people do get weird about the camera. Like, especially when I first started, they was extra. They was extra tweaking about the camera then. It ain't been as bad as of lately, but you are going to want some people that do not like the camera or they act weird around the camera. I do, I kind of understand where some people are coming from, but I also would like them to ask me in a proper manner. Cause it kind of comes off some rules sometimes. Why aren't they just, that's weird. Or they just do extra stuff and they're like, why are you doing all that? All you have to say was, are you recording? Like, no, I don't want to be on YouTube. That's it. That's all you got to say. Or I don't want to be on camera. That's it. I will break you out. I don't have any issues. I don't have any problems with making anybody out. As long as you ask in a respectful manner. That's all I ask. That's all I ask. Now, some people may say you're disrespectful for even having the camera, but how are you going to tell me what I can have on my person? I wear what I want to wear. You'll be recorded all the time. You just don't pay attention to it. So that's the way I, but I think about that. As far as me having them signing anything, absolutely not. I don't have anyone signing anything. But if they do tell me they do not want to be on the camera, I automatically make sure I take them off. Even if I feel like some people like, if I feel like that they acting like a little, you know, shaking around the camera, they don't, they kind of like avoiding it. I would just let them know like, I won't put you on if you don't want me to. Some people say it's okay. And then some people are like, okay, they don't want to be on there. So I always respect people's wishes if they want to be on the camera or not on the camera. And if I'm coming to someone's house to drop off something, I always make sure I cover their face up. Like cover their face up mask them out so nobody knows who it is. So they won't know where anybody lives at. Also, I do want to say this. A lot of people say something about these cameras, but majority of the times you're on public property. You're on public property. Walmart, all that same club, all that is public property. That is not private property. So make sure you guys keep that in mind. I know that some people get, I don't want to be on the camera. I definitely don't mind not putting nobody on the camera, but you also, you need to know the laws, know your rights on whether you can record or whether you cannot record, especially if you're in this van, especially if in your car. They can't tell you what to record in your own car. They can't tell you that. So just keep that in mind. Why are you out there on the grind? Question number 11 comes from at Brett. And he says, what is your length and height of your Sprinter van? And what are your goals for 2024? The length and height of the Sprinter van. I'm gonna say honestly, I really don't know all that. I know it's a 170 wheelbase. I know that it's like, oh, 14 feet, 14 feet back there. We can fit 14 feet in the back. And the height is like 72. Oh, the height of the whole van, it's like nine feet. So it's a 170 wheelbase, a 170 wheelbase, and the height is like nine feet. And my goals for 2024 is first off, we gotta get to this $100,000 subscriber. We gotta get that. I need that plaque next year, baby. I wanna be holding that joint like Kobe. You know, I'll be holding that joint like Kobe, and they holding them trophies. I need that plaque. That's one thing. I also need to invest a lot more. So my goal is to invest as much as possible because I believe that things are gonna go up and I'm gonna make way more money because I'm trying to hit to my maximum achievement goal by 40. When I get 40 years old, I'm talking about full, multi-millionaire, full, land, properties, everything. So I need to invest more. Also, I do need to find other ways to do things with the cargo van, with the Sprinter van. I would rather do my own thing than go under a carrier company or get a DOT MC or, you know, do the gear gaps and all that stuff. I really, really, really deep down inside. Pause, wanna create my own business. I do not wanna have to worry about nobody else with me. That's it, that's all. So I kinda been trying to figure out what exactly I wanna do. I wanna have my own little niche. I do not wanna, I mean, moving stuff and doing side jobs and all that stuff is cool. Doing some gear gaps here and there is cool, but I really wanna build my own stuff. That's one of my biggest goals of 2024, is build our own stuff and then maybe possibly add some more vans or, you know, box trucks or whatever, but do it all for ourselves and not have to deal with anybody else but the consumer. So that's my plan for 2024 and that's about it. I mean, of course I wanna make some money. Of course I wanna do that. I'm trying to make major boo-koo dollars. I'm trying to go out there and pop my collar, but we're gonna see what happens. Honestly, when people say, like, where do you see yourself in this many, this many amount of years, I really don't know. I just go with the flow and whatever God takes me in, whatever he puts on my site, that's just what I go for. That's just how I do things. I'm out here trying to get this green, nothing in between. Question number 12 comes from at Susan Jenkins and she says, what percent of your earnings are you putting towards taxes on your business? You wanna be honest with you, Susan, that's a great, that's an excellent question. Personally, we really don't spend much money. I told you guys that most of the money goes to investments. So as far as saving money, it's always money just in the account. So whenever the taxes, whatever kind of paper test we is gonna pay it out of there, we really don't move the money around like that. Most of the majority of the money is being invested, invested, invested, invested. We do keep a decent amount in both accounts. Like we got the regular account with the gig gaps and everything and then we have the account with the carrier coming. So we keep everything separated. But we make sure that we keep a decent amount in each account. And whenever the taxes come, that's what we gotta do. We gotta pay, we gotta pay. But again, as I told you guys in the previous question that for the most part, you really don't have to already pay taxes like that if you've driven enough miles. But we do make sure we pay some because you wanna make sure that your business is profitable because that's gonna allow the bank to give you more money later on. If you lose the money every time they give you some money, then they might not wanna loan you any more money. So you guys, if you plan on doing this business or any other business, make sure that your business is profitable because if it's not, they're not gonna wanna loan you any more money. So I just wanna throw that little gem in there. I appreciate the question though. Okay, question number 13 comes from at Taren Eric. And he says, sorry for asking. Thinking about moving to North Chicago, is it cheap to live there? Huge shout out to my guy Taren. He is the subscriber that has been around since the very, very beginning. Also, I wanna say huge shout out to any other subscribers that's been around since the beginning and also the new subscriber to just subscribe to the channel. Makes you all hit that like button. Now, my guy Taren wanna move to North Chicago. That's where I'm from, I'm from North Chicago. Back in the day, it was way cheaper than it is now. But it's a little bit higher, but it's not that crazy. For one bedroom you probably, it depends. Hold on, wait, let me say this. It depends on what area in North Chicago you're gonna move to. It's not that big, but they have areas that are like the big nice houses in the back built off of the cut. They're you gonna pay my money for those. It depends if you wanna buy a house or if you wanna do rent. If you wanna buy a house, the housing market is a little bit higher than it used to be now because it kinda gentrified it a little bit. It kinda fixed that joint up a little bit. They even got a Starbucks around here, down there. So they out there getting busy. But as far as rent go, you probably can get you one bedroom from like $700. You probably can get you a two bedroom for like, depending on the area too, depending on the area. But like $850 to $1,000. You'll get you a three bedroom from $1,113,000. It depends on the area though. But it's not that bad. It's pretty much standard. It's similar to everywhere around here. Except for when you go to the really nice areas. You know when you go to Lake Forest and all, you gonna pay it bad. You gonna pay, you gonna pay that. You gonna pay that fettuccine that go out commodity if you go out there. But huge out to my God 10 for the question. Question number 14 comes from atrapid99. And he says, how much do you make a month off of YouTube? That is a good question. Everybody always wanna know how much dough we already trying to get. Now, honestly, doing YouTube is very similar to doing gig gaps and doing getting a carrier and all that stuff, being an independent contractor. It fluctuates drastically up and down, up and down. It's up and down and up and down. And just keep on doing that, doing that, doing that. So one money may be a thousand. Another money may be five thousand. But it's never really a consistent number. So anybody who out there doing YouTube or wanna do YouTube, if you're doing YouTube, you already know the number is never consistent. You might have one video that is blow up or you might not have one that's, I'm getting a thousand views. And that's why the reason why I tell you guys to smash that like button because it's gonna push us out to more people. So smash that like button. And if you are not subscribed, go ahead and smash that subscribe button because the goal is 100,000 subscribers in 2024. We put up, to school. I wonder about my birthday. February 17th, 2024. Can we get 100,000 subscribers? That's what I want for my birthday. Y'all wanna know what I want for my birthday? That's what I want. 100,000 subscribers by February 17th, 2024. Okay, and last but not least, question number 15 comes from at Motown YB. And he says, what was the last straw that broke the camel's back to make you seek entrepreneurship? And what kind of work were you doing in that nine to five? That's a long, long story. That right there is a long story. Now I'm gonna break it down to you guys. I actually thought about doing a band talk about my work history and all that stuff and what I'm doing and working, why I quit my job and all that stuff. But I'm just gonna go ahead and tell you this is pretty much what happened. So I was working at my old job. So let me rewind a little bit. I'm gonna go rewind a little bit. Let me get y'all a little backstory. So, boom, I went to Job Corps. After I got out of Job Corps, I started working at a place called Second Wind Exercise Equipment. At that place, we was in a box truck and we used to deliver exercise equipment. We did the whole Wisconsin and some Illinois. So the driving and stuff, we used to go here, go there about three hours away, four hours away. So huge out to my guy, policy, policy was one of my first partner. And then my guy, I hope he watching this, my guy Remigius Stuczynski, my guy Remigius, my guy Remi. We used to go out there and get busy. We had a ball. I had a ball working at that old job. It was cool and all, but I end up wanting to do bigger and better things. So I went to another job, which is the last job I worked. Now I go there in 2014, no, was it? Think it was 2014. Go there in 2014. Now mind you, let me rewind a little bit more. I've been, the entrepreneurial spirit has always been, it's always been a thing for me. A whole town, a majority of my life, I've been selling different stuff, doing this, selling my old clothes, selling this, switching up. I've been doing that stuff for my whole entire life. So it's nothing new to me. So boom, I'm working at my old job. I'm cool. He probably never seen his video, but his name is Tim. He was my supervisor at my old job. I used to sand first, because when I went to Job Corps, I went there for welding. So I'm a welder by trade. And I also went there for auto body and paint. So I know how to paint cars and sand them and do all that stuff. So I used to sand cement trucks, like cement trucks with the booms and all that. They go real, real high up in the sky. When they do all that stuff shooting, like they shoot the concrete, when they put the concrete up there, I used to do that stuff. So I used to sand that, get it all right, then sand it down, prep it and everything, mask it off. And then they used to take it in the paper and they used to paint it. So I did that first. Then I'm like, you know what? I need to give me some more money. So now I went to another department and made more money where I was actually putting together the machine. So it's called a boom. So I was putting that together, doing all that, that was sweet. I was living it up and they're chilling, doing my thing, getting them busy with that, putting that stuff together. And then I'm like, I wanna make some more money. So now I'm gonna go to the welding department. They weld pipes, I was welding pipes, pause. Ooh, that was crazy. Now, everything was fine. I went back there, I was back there, I'm doing my thing, I'm welding my pipes. I ain't having no problems. I got my tool box, I got my whole little setup, you know, I'm on the phone, talking about business part of what we talking about. Yeah, after I get off work, we gotta go over here, we gotta go knock on doors, we gotta do the real estate stuff. Doing that, I'm on the phone, you know, bumping my music. I'm listening to my books. I told y'all every single day. I'm listening to my books. Rich Dad, Poor Dad, Thinking Girl Rich, every single day, it was six hours. Every day I'm listening to them books. Doing that, boom, boom, boom. So next thing you know, eventually what happened is we got new management. Now, when we got this new management, it got real. It got super real. Honestly, I was chilling back there. I only have no issues. I was educating myself, listening to those books. I was chilling. I was still doing my work. Now, one thing I do I've always done is I've never been lazy. I'm always gonna do my job. So I have my setup on the pipes and I'm gonna weld pause. And that's what I'm gonna do every day. I'm gonna make sure that that's at least done. These 40 pipes are gonna be welded that day. So boom, we get the new management. And boy, boy, boy, it went downhill from there. It was critical. So the new management come. Now, my supervisor is not, don't welcome my supervisor. He's now under the supervisor. He's like the lead, but he's not the lead of me. He's like the lead of another department. So another supervisor came in. This dude was out of control. He was doing way too much. I always seemed to be getting singled out all the time. And they always send something to me. They don't send anybody else. They want me to move over here, go over here, go over there. Ain't nobody else moving. And I had an issue with this to the point where it got this bad now. I had to tell HR. I talked to HR. HR, the one thing I'm gonna tell you guys about this, with these jobs, I'm gonna tell you this, this is very important. Listen to what I'm saying. These jobs do not care about you. I'm gonna tell you right now, they do not care about you or nothing. They're always gonna do what's best for the company. So always do what's best for you. And how do I know that? I don't know it's the hard way. I went to HR, the lady in there, we used to, I was cool with her before this. Me and her talking, you know, she was cool, you know, she had some real estate. We used to talk about, you know, everything was cool. Then I went in there, so I talked to her like, yeah, I feel like I'm being singled out. The dude always sends something to me. He don't send anybody else. Everybody else can do what they want to do. They all, everybody's always an issue with me. Now, this had gotten so bad that I had actually reached out to my real estate attorney. He's my real estate attorney. Let them know like, I don't know, man. It's just getting critical, boo boo boo. So then he said, okay, I'm gonna give you this number. I called this lady. I had a paralegal. It gets bad. I'm documenting my business partner like I call her and tell her, document this. She, when it came up, this I did. You gotta document everything. We document everything. The time, what they said, everything, everything that went on. So we can try to get this lawsuit. But boom, that's how I found out that the, you know, HR, they told me I'm gonna do an investigation and all this and all this. And then let me tell you guys this. Don't ever believe that people are gonna rob you like they didn't go rob you because they really ain't. Some of them may, but some of them not. So they had to do the investigation. The investigation consisted of her, the lady in the HR, coming to our department, asking different people, do they feel like I've been singled out? Do this happen? Do the supervise always say something to me that I've sent to nobody else? And he used the N word too. Every say that. He was trying to be cool, but he did use it. Now I ain't lying about this. So the HR lady came over there, asked him all the questions about that. I don't know what they said. From what she said that they said that they don't know. They don't know if, they don't know some people may say that you kind of maybe singled out, but they don't really know because ain't nobody really gonna rob you cause they job is on the line. You know, if they get real, they job online. They ain't taking no hits for you. So just know that when you go to these people and they ain't going to risk it all. They ain't risking it for the biscuit. Just so you guys know. So in the midst of all this investigation that's going on and all that stuff, he's still acting a fool. He's still doing too much. Me and him low key, we low key getting into it pretty much every single day. We pretty much getting into every single day. I had no problem before him. Everything was cool. It gets to the point where at this point, man, the gig is just up. I ain't got time to keep dealing with this. I'm not dealing with it no more. So what I'm gonna do is this. I put in my vacation days. I put all my vacation days is, I think it was close to the 4th of July or something like that. Close to the 4th of July. And honestly, I already had it in my head that I'm not going back. Now, what I do want to say is this. When you, and you are working the job right now, you're playing on doing this. I ain't gonna lie. My stomach was hurting so bad boy. Like it was multiple days I was gonna quit. Multiple times, multiple. It probably like three or four times. I'm talking about man, my stomach hurting. I was talking about my stomach hurting because I knew, and that's what made me know that when my stomach started hurting like that, that I'm doing the right thing. And I haven't looked back ever since. We went through the investigation. The paralegal reached out to them to try to settle, get a settlement. They wasn't going. The paralegal pretty much told me at this point there's nothing else you can do. I can't hire another lawyer, another attorney to pursue this, but she does as much as she can do because they won't settle on it. So I'm like, you know what? I ain't got time. This is gonna take three, five years. I ain't got time to keep off the court and all that stuff. So I ended up just saying, forget it. I did try to get on the pub and they denied that too. So it was just real. It was all around the board. And that is the video. It's a short that I have where I said that that was my last day working. That was my last day working. June 20, yes where it was, June 28th or 26th. One of them too. Today is June 28th, 2019, right? And thus far, this will be the biggest day of my life. Today is my last full day of working for somebody. On Monday I'm coming, give them their belongings and everything and it's over. This has been one of my biggest dreams as I was younger to not work for somebody by the time I turned 30. I'm actually 29. I was gonna wait till next year to do this, but pretty much my hand was forced and I'm gonna explain that to you guys later on in the rest of this video cause this will be going on YouTube. So yeah, it's official man. And understand you can do this too. I'm not nobody special. I just saved my money and invested it and now I'm finna retire. That's what happened. I ain't never going back again. I ain't never going back to a job again. I'm gonna do what everybody needs to do to keep on grinding so I can keep on shining. But I appreciate that was a great last question. I hope you guys enjoyed this video. Again, if you're not subscribed, make sure you smash the subscribe button. Also do not forget, this video needs to get to 1000 likes. Hit that like button before you go and lock in tomorrow. Well lock in Monday cause y'all know we going back to scope again. We already getting dividends. I'll see you guys on the next one. 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