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Dropping Out of High School to Clean Toilets<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Failure: The Ups and Downs of Business and Their Challenges<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n So far in the series I have written:<\/p>\n\n\n\n How to Make a Run Down Restaurant Turn a Profit<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n —<\/p>\n\n\n\n Maccas to Millions: A mini-series of lessons learned from McDonald’s and how it helped us buy, fix and sell the Silverspoon – A local restaurant that was about to close its doors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n After dropping out of high school my first job at the local McDonalds was to clean the toilets, car park and various bits of equipment. After working my way up the ranks I ended up running a store for 2 years. Since then I have overseen and managed approximately<\/p>\n\n\n\n In that time, collectively Katie and I have also overseen about 200 staff and currently manage about 60 Sub-contractors and suppliers with KiwiHomes. There have been many hires, and a couple of fires, both the staff kind and the building caught fire once. Along the way, we have made lots of friends, learnt a thing or two about what to do, and more importantly what not do. The “The 4-Hour Workweek”<\/em> book was instrumental in helping us to remove ourselves from the business and travel before selling. <\/p>\n\n\n\n We have also managed to make a bit of money along the way \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n Our business adventures have only just begun, and we have so much more to learn. Turning the lessons we learnt so far into a formal collection of writing has been something I have wanted to do for a while now, but I have been procrastinating, looking for the perfect way to start, waiting for the perfect thing to write about.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n As one of the quotes on my wall says<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cStrive for progress, not perfection\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Introduction: Dropping Out of High School to Clean Toilets Failure: The Ups and Downs of Business and Their Challenges So far in the series I have written: How to Make a Run Down Restaurant Turn a Profit — Maccas to Millions: A mini-series of lessons learned from McDonald’s and how it helped us buy, fix … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joshfrom.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/442"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joshfrom.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joshfrom.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joshfrom.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joshfrom.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/joshfrom.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joshfrom.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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