Re: advice


Far better to be doing something that you love and going broke than 
going broke doing something you hate. Of course if you make 
money then you get the best of both worlds, so they tell me!!!
 
Go for the thing you love Don. I love my business and my wife too, 
so am pretty well off no matter what. Of course if Janice left and the 
business went broke the fan would not be clean!

Terry Dowdeswell
18 Henderson Ave
Tuakau, New Zealand
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Terry@delphinium.co.nz
http://www.delphinium.co.nz
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Average daily maximum  above 20degC for 5-6 months
Average monthly maximum above 25degC for 4 months
Average daily maximum always above14degC
Average daily minimum never below 7.8degC
1-10 ground frosts per year, almost no air frost
Rainfall mean july 135mils, Jan 70mils, annual 1185mils

> Don Martinson wrote:
> > 
> > After being offered an early retirement by the Federal Gvnt. last year,
> > I gave serious thought to starting some type of plant/horticulture
> > business. The more I thought about it and looked at others in the
> > business, lthe more I became convinced that if I took something I loved
> > to do for a hobby and tried to turn it into something that I HAD to do
> > for a living, I could risk falling out of love with it.
> > 
> > Don Martinson
> > Milwaukee, Wisconsin
> > d*@post.its.mcw.edu
> > 
> > "Existing order thrives upon ignorance and lies.
> > Objective truth and individual reason are feared above all."
> > 
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> No way, Don.  You get to grow (en mass) every plant that stikes your
> fancy, and then sell most of them.  Or, as you fall out of love with
> it,  you can recoup your expenses.
> You can travel to wholesalers and pick the Creme de la creme, and write it
> off.  You can go to Trade Shows and drool all over the latest hi tech
> innovations that will surely increase your bottom line if you only had 4.3
> million bucks to finance the initial outlay....the benefits of this
> business are thousandfold and I have NO regrets.  However, I also have a 
> self-employed husband that supports the family whilst I funnel profits
> back into my business.  If I had to support a family on it myself, the
> doors would have been closed for lack of operating capital. And that's the
> case from someone who has the magic key to a successful
> business....Location, location, location.  Give me one more season, and I
> could probably support a family. -- The Greenhouse Nursery 81 S. Bagley
> Creek Road & Hwy 101 Port Angeles, WA  98362 (360) 417-2664 Zone 8
> 
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