Originally Posted by
guns01
i will vent here with you guys but my vent is trival in the fact that i am well taken care of and dont have nothing near happening in my life you guys do. you guys have every right to tear it up and let it rip for sure. here is my rant and why i had to forgo the competitive season this year:
ok we will back track a bit to last year. got a former bud that started up a sup business. well i am going to be his poster baby, full ride sponsorship the whole 9 yards. supps taken care of shows paid for travel and everything else. pretty sick deal right? hell no way wrong way way wrong. so i make the mistake of bringing on his wife as a training partner and cient and my wife went to work for her as well. also i am going to note, i am not selfishness nor stingy so i offered up and paid half on some of my expenses. so when my first fees of my offseaon comes up, i paid it all in full and set myself back big time by doing so. this is after i gave him a 2 month notice and weekly reminder. 1 month later and after i fell behind on some bills, i got his half. should have been my indicator on this was a bad deal right then and there. ok rest of the offseason is going well and coming up on getting ready to prep. so i start warning 2 months in advance hey we need to get x amount of money ready to cover my costs and it has to be in no later than this date. again at least weekly reminders this is coming up sometimes multiple times per week. so me being smart and proactive and trying to help him out because he can use it as a cash write off, i give him my half so he can pay it with the store account. this was 3 full wks in advance of said deadline. i had also started dieting and prepping a full month and half early so i knew without a doubt i would rep the store at my best. deadline came and went, another wk another wk and nothing. well the wife has a little failing out with his over her being bipolar and treating eveyone like crap. so i blew up on both of them, dropped her and quit on him. guess when i got my money back? almost a month later. so since i didnt have it budgeted and went so far past the deadline i couldnt pay it all myself nor compete. so i had an entire year wasted.
i did learn a very very valuable lesson though. never really on someone else to help finance ventures that you work your heart out on. you always budget in for the full amount or you will get left with your dick in our hand.
oh and another twist to the tale on being super uber mega fucked by this dude. his female athletes didnt have any issues making their deadlines and both competed in national level shows on time this year. pretty amazing huh? and they dont rep the company for shit