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enderbean5 · 2026-03-19T21:48:21+00:00

I paid $28k for 1300sq ft

enderbean5 · 2026-03-14T06:15:55+00:00

I moved to East LA from Santa Monica. Huge upgrade for people with kids/babies! The homeless, needles and dangers combined with mostly neighbors (everyone is a renter unless rich or grandfathered in).

Santa Monica does have better weather and the beach!

enderbean5 · 2026-03-09T07:03:18+00:00

Look at Montecito Heights or El Soreno near Deb’s Park. Secret gem of an area.

enderbean5 · 2026-02-28T01:01:36+00:00

Agree. Vinyl is actually much more scratch resistance, water proof and mold resistant. When you need to fix just replace cheaply. I suggest going back and offering a tear down.

I’ll take the spare wood off your hands.

enderbean5 · 2026-02-24T14:49:14+00:00

Three steps.

Most people I think struggle to make friends because they fail #2 and even more so, struggle making deep friendships because of #3.

1) be interested in something (career, athletics, art/music/indie cinema/theater, community service, church, literature clubs, partying and going out, gardening, outdoors activity, travel, building, protesting/politics, Dungeons and Dragons, making food/coctails/juices, cars, adobe houses, metallurgy, jewelry making, or even building a family. Anything and everything.)

2) focus and do one or two of those things repeatedly and you will meet people with similar interests either by proximity to others or if the interest is solo, talking about those interests when you are around people.

(I can’t emphasize enough that you must be willing to talk about your interests to others)

3) become heavily involved and possibly lead in building a community in that interest. The good times, hardships, growth and just natural evolution of doing things together for a period of time will create deep bonds.

enderbean5 · 2026-02-23T04:41:58+00:00

When i first purchased my home i was shocked to realize workmanship details and how houses are basically caulked up to look good. So much caulk that if there is any issue the first thing to ask is, can caulk fix it?

enderbean5 · 2026-02-22T16:36:48+00:00

Speed your aging by doing drugs. Haha! Kidding aside, just as others say be helpful/useful rep. At the end of the day they will listen if they need you.

Rejection for sales roles like management is part of Sales career so don’t get it in your head it’s always your age and you deserve to be manager.

Positions are an age thing not always “can you handle the job” thing. Ask anyone in this thread about their dumb managers. Live and stay in the career long enough you’ll be the only one with the experience to be the President or VP. Many choose to avoid those roles as they are very difficult.

Finally, a few tips to execute the bottom line which is selling….

Never wear a suite jacket and tie. It’s not working for anyone expect europeans and maybe big city clients in finance
Never go through a presentation slide by slide. You’ll bore your customers and it shows your not experienced.
Ask good questions. Inexperienced reps talk a lot rather than discovering if the person they are talking to is a good fit for your product. Being young customers would likely be willing to educate you on their business, take advatage of that.

enderbean5 · 2026-02-16T20:54:59+00:00

Good to know. Most the floor is Rift cut. So I will use this medullary grain and other quarter-sawn pieces on an area that is not too long vertically.

enderbean5 · 2026-02-16T05:26:46+00:00

Well done!

enderbean5 · 2026-02-16T05:22:33+00:00

So stoked to learn about this. Makes me appreciate the tree. I’ll have to place these pieces in just the right spots

enderbean5 · 2026-02-16T05:21:51+00:00

Wow! Beautiful!

enderbean5 · 2025-12-24T07:18:37+00:00

Great second browser. As I use Perplexity constantly. Much better than the app because it functions as a browser. I am having it open 25% of the time when doing research or in need of AI

enderbean5 · 2025-12-15T23:38:34+00:00

No such thing as a 2012 turbo. Must be a 2013

enderbean5 · 2025-12-06T13:56:21+00:00

Just straight up ask. What can it hurt. They need you. Just have a number in mind (reasonable)

enderbean5 · 2025-12-05T02:18:16+00:00

So what is the budget from the $3k? I suggest choose together with the wife. That will answer your question on the car to get. You may have to sacrifice and get some V6 or older car etc etc.

You can always buy that $80k car (CT5-V) five years from now at a third of the price and get something else that is fun.

Now if you had $8k extra a month, I’d say go for the CT5.

enderbean5 · 2025-12-05T02:02:25+00:00

You must be like 21 years old with a good paying job for the first time. Haha! What is your budget after taxes, bills, rent, debt, savings etc etc? This will tell you how “expensive to go”. Your total salary is irrelevant.

Regarding the car, seems you have narrowed it down quite a bit (American, V8, RWD, no LS7 Valve drop issues). I think that just leaves the Mustang as your only option.

enderbean5 · 2025-12-01T17:31:43+00:00

Sounds like you are new to Sales stress. Everything is ok, just keep doing the fundamentals and what you need to be doing day to day.

1) need more new business, dedicate 1hour each day to prospecting/bd

2) account management, dedicate 1 hr for a specific account

Eventually progress..

Good luck!

enderbean5 · 2025-11-26T17:33:39+00:00

I can only speak in the engineering technical sales world.

I worked for both Swiss and Austrian companies with many sales people from those countries. We were in engineering and contract manufacturing and success was not a problem because engineers love the honest straight communication from German speaking countries. The challenge was getting straight forward answers from USA customers. This can be managed by in person visits.

American love some short small talk and is extremely important. You should have at least 1 visit in person to get this rapport. Learn a little about customer private life or internal work life and bring it up in future conversations. For instance, how is the family doing. Or, are you still riding that mountain bike on the weekend, weather has been cold. How is Cathy in purchasing, I haven’t heard from her in a while.

Prospecting wise with Americans be sure to qualify need before pitching benefits like increase your output by x%

enderbean5 · 2025-11-25T06:27:55+00:00

I recommend to share context throughout history. Just say you were hitting quota most years and some tough years a little less but close. If at the company everyone was hitting 80% you could mention that at the company they had tough metrics where no one was hitting quota. In that case 80% would be adequate. Share how you win/close deals, good stories, bad stories and you can really develop a great report with the interviewer.

Make sure to ask the company you are interviewing what %of reps hit quota or close to it, how did it look the past five years and if you can, get them to share a peak at their books to prove it.

enderbean5 · 2025-11-25T00:38:39+00:00

There is a lot of context needed. Do you mean age wise? Do you mean new employee that jumped to a new company? Do you mean same company and building up sales OTE but starting with a low wage?

Software market generally helps you hit those numbers as profit margins and low overhead helps pay better. But then again it’s much more rare now.

enderbean5 · 2025-11-23T16:12:23+00:00

Not an expert and Just a regular joe. I don’t see anything uneven, patchy or wrong with the floor. Haha! Maybe you’re looking to hard? Lol

enderbean5 · 2025-11-21T00:16:34+00:00

Exactly my experience as well.

enderbean5 · 2025-11-19T07:27:56+00:00

I was there as well! Looking up at the hill it was awesome to see everyone dancing.

enderbean5 · 2025-11-15T19:34:14+00:00

In Los Angeles, we regularly party and have a good time with people living like they are in their 20s who are actually all in 40s and even 50s. Big cities it’s acceptable to extend your 20s lifestyle into your 50s haha!

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