Greg
What do u do for a living if you dont mind me asking
Mostly right now, I have been maintaining computers/registers/web site (1.2 mil sales last year) for mid sized company(factiry, 8 stores about 120 employees) . Over the years however, I figured out how to really make the company tick. I basically automated all the production and sales of our products.
We make soy fragrance candles. I designed and worked with engineers to finalize designes for our material handling processes. Starting with the raw soy wax, to jar filling and molding, and labeling and packaging automation.
I also had a major role in the process of opening more stores. I pioneered the idea in company that... We have one store that makes money, to increase sales, we should just start opening more stores. So I was the one who started that project as well.
10 years ago when I started, there were reams of paper all over the place in the office... Well there are still the same piles of paper all over the office, but we do about 20x more sales...
At some point in there, I was made a partner. Simply becaues, when I started they had about 500k sales annually, and this last year it was just under 10 million.
That was possible (the luck part) because when I started, the skills I possesed and my way of thinking about things was absent in the company. Because of my contributions over the years, company is poised to grow to probably 30-40 million year sales, over the next 5 years.
I am uncertain what my actual title is, it seems a cary a new one whenever there is a new hat to wear.