NFL: What do you do in the off season?

[Beef]

(01-23-2013 01:32 PM)phocis850 Wrote:  I'm calling BS on this.

Everyone knows that when you own your own business 60 hours a week it not enough time.

I'm a wealth manager/financial planner down in Buckhead and I don't have a boss. I have a main partner who owns as much of the firm as I do (1/3rd each) and about 2 dozen other lesser partners who split the last 1/3rd. My partner and I have 6 FT employees. We lease an entire floor of the south tower in Atlanta Financial Center.

I could quit my firm right now and just manage my existing book of clients from my home and live off their residual commissions for the rest of my life if I wanted to. I don't really hunt down new clients anymore. I manage my existing book of clients and I just hire and manage financial planners and make overrides off their business to pay for my overhead so I have a nice place to work out of and can build a good reputation/brand name for my firm.

And to be honest, most of this shit is on auto-pilot. My assistant and office manager can run this whole thing. I just sign the checks, talk on the phone, and go on a bunch of lunch meetings.

This isn't like owning a manufacturing business or a store. 60 hours a week is probably pushing it, actually. I probably put in less than that on average.