Oh, you want to play “name that tune” with a pro, huh??? Prepare to lose at this game!
Ok, I needed more time to get Johnny Rodriguez “Riding my thumb to Mexico”, but I am a HUGE Freddy Fender fan, so nailed that!!! And I’m an East Tennessee hillbilly, so Merle Haggard only took me about 0.2 seconds.
For all these young men who feel like they can’t be successful or don’t understand what “being a man” means, anymore, or feel lost in our society, now. Listen to these two men and realize that for anybody to succeed at ANYTHING, you need the tools required for the job. If the job is nothing more than hard work, you need the tools to do hard work; don’t quit, don’t blame other people, strengthen your body, strengthen your mind, be efficient. Now, you have to get those tools, somehow, right? A plumber has to have the proper tools to do a plumbing job and they need money to get those tools. It’s the same for doing a job that doesn’t require actual “tools” that you buy, you still have to “pay” something to get the tools to do hard work. You have to put in the hours, the sweat, the pain, the soreness, build muscle, learn how to lift with your legs and how to save your back, figure out how to push through all these things when you don’t think you can go another minute.
Once you acquire those tools, you can learn a trade while doing the hard work. Find an apprenticeship at a company or a vocational program than gives grants to help pay for it. When you have learned that trade, you can buy the tools you need for doing that specific trade job and then start making an even better living.
Now that you have the physical and mental tools and some physical tools and a trade, figure out what other kind of jobs you can be doing with the tools you’ve acquired. Use those tools to do a different kind of work on the side and put that cash toward building your trade business or starting an actual side business. If you are trained as a plumber, figure out which of your tools you can use to install tile or light fixtures or build planter boxes or do lawnmower repair. Or just find something that doesn’t require a big investment to do like auto detailing or small landscaping jobs or window cleaning or assembling and installing products like grills, patio furniture, bookcases, desk, ceiling fans, etc., for people.
Or start working toward a certification or license or an associates degree to help further your trade or learn how to better run a small business.
Or start doing side work with a different trade like; building decks, fencing, painting, electrician, roofing, or whatever. Hell far, AI can’t do any of those things, so you don’t have ro worry about that!
You have to take the same approach to building in career that requires you to use your mind more than your hands and back. It’s the same tools needed for hard work and then different tools for that profession.
Either way, you have to find what motivates you and what you are passionate about, so you have a better chance of succeeding at whatever it is!
AND…. SAVE YOUR DAMN MONEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I wish I had learned that way earlier in life, because the opportunities to use the money I should have saved to make money just buy simply buying something and them reselling it, passed me by over and over. I make myself so mad thinking about all the opportunities I had to make a stack of cash with minimal work just by having money saved at the time, makes me want to lay my pecker across a fence post and hit it with a pipe-wrench… but, it’s just a thought of course.
And about women…. Well, that’s a different discussion for a different time 🤗
So, I have always said “poor people’s stories are the same, just different color skin and different foods”. For me, it was the smell of flour biscuits or cornbread in a cast iron skillet (cornmeal, not that sweet stuff… unless it’s sweet with corn and cheese, but that came later). One of those biscuits smothered in salted butter on a plate with sliced tomatoes and fried corn (using bacon grease, of course). I’m white, but grew up with black, brown, Vietnamese, etc. kids and they were my window to the world. Some lived in a housing project, some in a trailer park, some in a camper, some in little three room houses like us, and we all knew we were poor, regardless of what we looked like. We didn’t know we were “different” until people outside of our homes told us we were supposed to think that way. Fortunately, my parents taught us that we weren’t any better than anybody else, regardless of skin color, where we lived, what we had, etc., while others were told they WERE better because of all those things! My dad was a mechanic and taught us how to work and how to fix cars and weld and build things. He had a small auto repair shop and half of our customers weren’t white even though Knoxville is very white. My parents told us that “regardless of what color hand it came from, money was green” and we love everybody until they give us a reason not to. One of my dad’s best friends was a Chevy man and my dad was a Ford man. I remember thinking “if a Ford man and a Chevy man can be friends, hell, we can all be friends”
Thank you for this show and I hope to watch many more!
Oh, you want to play “name that tune” with a pro, huh??? Prepare to lose at this game!
Ok, I needed more time to get Johnny Rodriguez “Riding my thumb to Mexico”, but I am a HUGE Freddy Fender fan, so nailed that!!! And I’m an East Tennessee hillbilly, so Merle Haggard only took me about 0.2 seconds.
I’ll be brushing up for next week!!!
For all these young men who feel like they can’t be successful or don’t understand what “being a man” means, anymore, or feel lost in our society, now. Listen to these two men and realize that for anybody to succeed at ANYTHING, you need the tools required for the job. If the job is nothing more than hard work, you need the tools to do hard work; don’t quit, don’t blame other people, strengthen your body, strengthen your mind, be efficient. Now, you have to get those tools, somehow, right? A plumber has to have the proper tools to do a plumbing job and they need money to get those tools. It’s the same for doing a job that doesn’t require actual “tools” that you buy, you still have to “pay” something to get the tools to do hard work. You have to put in the hours, the sweat, the pain, the soreness, build muscle, learn how to lift with your legs and how to save your back, figure out how to push through all these things when you don’t think you can go another minute.
Once you acquire those tools, you can learn a trade while doing the hard work. Find an apprenticeship at a company or a vocational program than gives grants to help pay for it. When you have learned that trade, you can buy the tools you need for doing that specific trade job and then start making an even better living.
Now that you have the physical and mental tools and some physical tools and a trade, figure out what other kind of jobs you can be doing with the tools you’ve acquired. Use those tools to do a different kind of work on the side and put that cash toward building your trade business or starting an actual side business. If you are trained as a plumber, figure out which of your tools you can use to install tile or light fixtures or build planter boxes or do lawnmower repair. Or just find something that doesn’t require a big investment to do like auto detailing or small landscaping jobs or window cleaning or assembling and installing products like grills, patio furniture, bookcases, desk, ceiling fans, etc., for people.
Or start working toward a certification or license or an associates degree to help further your trade or learn how to better run a small business.
Or start doing side work with a different trade like; building decks, fencing, painting, electrician, roofing, or whatever. Hell far, AI can’t do any of those things, so you don’t have ro worry about that!
You have to take the same approach to building in career that requires you to use your mind more than your hands and back. It’s the same tools needed for hard work and then different tools for that profession.
Either way, you have to find what motivates you and what you are passionate about, so you have a better chance of succeeding at whatever it is!
AND…. SAVE YOUR DAMN MONEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I wish I had learned that way earlier in life, because the opportunities to use the money I should have saved to make money just buy simply buying something and them reselling it, passed me by over and over. I make myself so mad thinking about all the opportunities I had to make a stack of cash with minimal work just by having money saved at the time, makes me want to lay my pecker across a fence post and hit it with a pipe-wrench… but, it’s just a thought of course.
And about women…. Well, that’s a different discussion for a different time 🤗
Mr. Morales…. It might not be the scope 😂😂😂 My wife is an Optometrist, so if you are ever in Knoxville, TN she can hook you up!!!
So, I have always said “poor people’s stories are the same, just different color skin and different foods”. For me, it was the smell of flour biscuits or cornbread in a cast iron skillet (cornmeal, not that sweet stuff… unless it’s sweet with corn and cheese, but that came later). One of those biscuits smothered in salted butter on a plate with sliced tomatoes and fried corn (using bacon grease, of course). I’m white, but grew up with black, brown, Vietnamese, etc. kids and they were my window to the world. Some lived in a housing project, some in a trailer park, some in a camper, some in little three room houses like us, and we all knew we were poor, regardless of what we looked like. We didn’t know we were “different” until people outside of our homes told us we were supposed to think that way. Fortunately, my parents taught us that we weren’t any better than anybody else, regardless of skin color, where we lived, what we had, etc., while others were told they WERE better because of all those things! My dad was a mechanic and taught us how to work and how to fix cars and weld and build things. He had a small auto repair shop and half of our customers weren’t white even though Knoxville is very white. My parents told us that “regardless of what color hand it came from, money was green” and we love everybody until they give us a reason not to. One of my dad’s best friends was a Chevy man and my dad was a Ford man. I remember thinking “if a Ford man and a Chevy man can be friends, hell, we can all be friends”
Thank you for this show and I hope to watch many more!
BOOMER SOONER, GO VOLS & SEND BRISKET!!!!!