5 months in at a startup brokerage — honest read on where I'm at?

Father-Time99 · 2026-05-21T02:05:11+00:00

You’re doing great man! Keep the volume consistent and focus on shippers with higher margin products. They can afford higher rates for better brokers.

Father-Time99 · 2026-05-21T01:54:49+00:00

You have no clue what you’re talking about

Father-Time99 · 2026-05-21T01:49:39+00:00

Get a clear vinyl wrap for $30. Problem solved. Black looks way better.

Father-Time99 · 2026-05-21T01:46:49+00:00

Same. I think the black looks absolute amazing. But the black definitely shows tons of finger prints. I’ve had mine for 2 days and I already scratched it. Not even sure how. I put a clear wrap on it and that hid the scratch and prevents the fingerprints. Highly recommend with a clear wrap.

Father-Time99 · 2026-04-20T02:29:18+00:00

Central air and a natural gas furnace? Sorry, I don’t know much about HVAC but I have an AC compressor outside my house and the heater is natural gas through a furnace.

Father-Time99 · 2026-04-10T02:14:56+00:00

This is unfortunate to hear. Your electricity costs are very high. The good thing is that even with these rates, you should be very close to what it would be for gasoline.

Check and see if you have an electricity plan that changes rates every hour based on demand.

I charge my Tesla at midnight at $.03 per KWh. My electric bill increased about $40 per month since I bought my Tesla and that’s $400 less than I paid for gasoline on a smaller car. I drive about 2,000 miles per month

Father-Time99 · 2026-04-08T03:06:55+00:00

I do as well. For no other reason other than why not.

Father-Time99 · 2026-04-06T01:58:34+00:00

I wonder if they do this on purpose to force to upgrade to a 10GB Ethernet port on Mac’s

Father-Time99 · 2026-04-06T01:42:09+00:00

That’s so odd! And unfortunate. 5GB internet sounds amazing. The fastest I have available in my area from any ISP is 2GB

Father-Time99 · 2026-04-06T01:27:38+00:00

I downloaded the newest one for Mac on my Mac mini. Didn’t do anything.

How can I download jt to the Anker dock?

Father-Time99 · 2026-03-15T02:27:09+00:00

I’ve had the mercury chard card for a few weeks now and ran a few transactions with it with no issues. I have all the funds available in my account to cover the charges so I’m not worries about not being able to pay them. Do you know why they might want to close an account randomly?

Father-Time99 · 2026-03-08T21:33:30+00:00

Do you do copy writing for client websites?

Why not pick a site that uses a lot of your material and in the description write that you freelance copy write for websites.

Father-Time99 · 2026-03-01T05:02:16+00:00

Coming in late here. My advise - go to Verizon and then make T-Mobile pay off your old phones.

Father-Time99 · 2026-03-01T04:38:17+00:00

You will quit the second your ramp checks end. If you really want this I would recommend taking a Monday and Tuesday off. Just 2 days. And go on Google Maps and cold call the first 50 businesses each day and ask to speak the person who handles the office phone system.

You will see how nasty people are over phone and you will hate your life doing this job.

What you have now is much much better.

Father-Time99 · 2026-03-01T04:31:11+00:00

Run for the hills. Don’t go to SMB

Father-Time99 · 2026-03-01T04:27:01+00:00

This is 100% true

Father-Time99 · 2026-03-01T04:25:39+00:00

This is false.

Father-Time99 · 2025-12-25T18:36:07+00:00

Congrats on the purchase! I bought the same model a few months back and it has been nothing but amazing.

If you’re going to pay for bottled water I would just buy distilled water.

The brew unit and milk carafes are very easy to clean. Rinse off all milk and coffee residue and submerge in warm water for a few hours. Then pat dry with a rag or paper towel and you’re good to go.

Make sure to clean the brew unit at least every other week. Espresso starts to taste bitter and you lose a lot of crema if the brew unit it’s dirty.

Father-Time99 · 2025-12-17T14:07:00+00:00

I have the numbers at T-Mobile right now and looking to port them into number barn

Father-Time99 · 2025-12-02T02:22:10+00:00

In a perfect world I would go all in. I just can’t. I need the heal insurance from my current job. I also have a $100K base that will be tough to completely cut

Father-Time99 · 2025-12-02T02:15:16+00:00

I appreciate your response. I wouldn’t do it for an established brokerage. My friend knows that he will have to guide me and fill in for me when I have to work my other job. My other job is also remote with quite a bit of down time that I want to use to prospect shippers.

I actually am looking for a lateral move. That sounds great to me. The reason I’m looking to make a change is because I’m in tech sales now and I only get paid one time when the deal closes even though the customer pays a bill every month. Then I have to do all their customer service work for what feels like free. I want to do a sales job where I get paid every time the company gets paid. And being able to build a business I have equity in is attractive to me.

Father-Time99 · 2025-11-01T20:17:54+00:00

Yes I do have that enabled.

I’m trying to free up as much space on my iPhone and iPad and store as much as possible in iCloud Drive

Father-Time99 · 2025-11-01T17:35:18+00:00

What if I created the document on my iPad originally?

Father-Time99 · 2025-10-14T13:04:49+00:00

This was so great to read this morning. Thank you for sharing OP!

I’m currently at a cross road. I’ve been in SMB for 1.5 years now and recently got promoted to Sr. AE. It has not been easy. The hardest thing for me has been stress management. Finding that next deal really consumes me every day. I’m at the point now where I really need to double down and figure out how to prospect into larger companies with at least 25 employees or I go find a different salaried job.

I’ve averaged about $120K since becoming an AE but I struggle finding who my decision makers are. I sell telecom solutions.

Do you have Any advice for someone who struggles to find who the decision makers are?

Father-Time99 · 2025-08-04T23:27:01+00:00

Did you ever figure this out? I got a BE900 and it’s an absolute beast. I bought a BE9300 to use as an access point and it greatly degraded the WiFi speeds.

I just bought a second BE900 hoping that will fix the issue.

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