02-16-2013, 01:32 AM
Long story short. My boyfriend has a Masters in Accounting and works as a tax accountant and I am finishing up my Bachelors and work in the logistics industry. We have always talked about starting our on business. He somewhat regrets his career choice (the firms snobby environment, long hours, and everything in between). I love my job and have progressed pretty fast, but at the same time I feel like I may hit a glass ceiling in such a male dominated environment.
We both share a passion for technology, specifically mobile devices (cell phones, tablets, laptops). We engage in app development, rom development, and also repair. We eventually started buying, selling, repairing, and flipping mobile devices. At this point we make enough doing this to where we can pay a majority of our bills with the profits. That is just doing this in our free time also.
Lately, we have been putting serious thought into this. Possibly even investing in a store front. At the same time we work, and work hard at that. It is tax season for him (60 hours mandatory plus every saturday until april), and he is mid way through taking the CPA exam with 2 parts left. Its warming up so work for me is picking up fast,I am trying to wrap up this capstone course/plus 2 test, and I Drill with the army reserves. :willynilly:
Ok maybe that was not a short story
What do you guys think?
Should we hold off on this until we have more free time? (I think I am to anxious though)
Smart idea? (In our area there is not a whole lot of legit competition)
Any good books, sites, blogs to with good information? (Already put together a "business plan")
We have the financial and marketing parts down, just not sure on how to execute. Any advice will be appreciated.
eeya:
We both share a passion for technology, specifically mobile devices (cell phones, tablets, laptops). We engage in app development, rom development, and also repair. We eventually started buying, selling, repairing, and flipping mobile devices. At this point we make enough doing this to where we can pay a majority of our bills with the profits. That is just doing this in our free time also.
Lately, we have been putting serious thought into this. Possibly even investing in a store front. At the same time we work, and work hard at that. It is tax season for him (60 hours mandatory plus every saturday until april), and he is mid way through taking the CPA exam with 2 parts left. Its warming up so work for me is picking up fast,I am trying to wrap up this capstone course/plus 2 test, and I Drill with the army reserves. :willynilly:
Ok maybe that was not a short story
What do you guys think?
Should we hold off on this until we have more free time? (I think I am to anxious though)
Smart idea? (In our area there is not a whole lot of legit competition)
Any good books, sites, blogs to with good information? (Already put together a "business plan")
We have the financial and marketing parts down, just not sure on how to execute. Any advice will be appreciated.
eeya:
39 B&M Credits To Start With
Goal: 18 Test + 1 Capstone + 15 Fema = BALS TESC :hurray:
Plan: Started 09/10/12
Degree by June 2013
Test taken:
DSST: Human Cultural Geography - 3Cr (9/14/12)
DSST: Intro to Computing - 3Cr (9/14/12)
CLEP: A & I Literature - 6Cr (9/21/12)
DSST: World Religions - 3Cr (9/28/12)
DSST: Law Enforcement - 3Cr (9/28/12)
DSST: Substance Abuse - 3Cr (10/05/12)
CLEP: Sociology - 3Cr (10/25/12)
CLEP: American Lit - 6Cr (11/02/12)
DSST: Organizational Behavior - 3Cr (11/16/12)
CLEP: Psych - 3Cr (11/28/12)
DSST: Fund of Counseling - 3Cr (11/30/12)
DSST: Techl Writing - 3Cr (11/30/12)
DSST: Lifespan Dev Psych - 3Cr (12/04/12)
CLEP: Social Science - 6Cr (12/07/12)
DSST: Prin of Supervision - 3Cr (2/01/13)
DSST: Env & Hum - 3Cr (2/5/13)
DSST: Astronomy (2/27/13)
DSST: Vietnam (3/4/13)
TESC LA Capstone (3/22/13)
120/120 Credits Achieved
Goal: 18 Test + 1 Capstone + 15 Fema = BALS TESC :hurray:
Plan: Started 09/10/12
Degree by June 2013
Test taken:
DSST: Human Cultural Geography - 3Cr (9/14/12)
DSST: Intro to Computing - 3Cr (9/14/12)
CLEP: A & I Literature - 6Cr (9/21/12)
DSST: World Religions - 3Cr (9/28/12)
DSST: Law Enforcement - 3Cr (9/28/12)
DSST: Substance Abuse - 3Cr (10/05/12)
CLEP: Sociology - 3Cr (10/25/12)
CLEP: American Lit - 6Cr (11/02/12)
DSST: Organizational Behavior - 3Cr (11/16/12)
CLEP: Psych - 3Cr (11/28/12)
DSST: Fund of Counseling - 3Cr (11/30/12)
DSST: Techl Writing - 3Cr (11/30/12)
DSST: Lifespan Dev Psych - 3Cr (12/04/12)
CLEP: Social Science - 6Cr (12/07/12)
DSST: Prin of Supervision - 3Cr (2/01/13)
DSST: Env & Hum - 3Cr (2/5/13)
DSST: Astronomy (2/27/13)
DSST: Vietnam (3/4/13)
TESC LA Capstone (3/22/13)
120/120 Credits Achieved
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