Never work with family...
 

Well, after many years of ups and downs working with a sibling. All I can say is never work with family. It will never work out! Well maybe I'm being slightly pessimistic but I don't think so....

One of the best rules ever.

Closely followed by, never loaning money to friends.

:disgust

shooting porn?

lol no it wasn't shooting porn... thank god!

It was a few mainstream sites that we developed that now generate upwards of about $100k monthly. I was supposed to be a partner... yet I haven't seen a penny. It's amazing what money does to people, even family members.

well that will make for an uncomfortable easter.

I agree 100000000000000000000000%. I found that out the hard way. 1 word: COUSIN

Yup, as well as birthdays, family gatherings, etc. Again, never work with family!

Someone told me that a long time ago, I guess I was too young and stupid at the time to heed their warnings.

I have had a really bad experience doing business with friends.

Same here, never ever hire a friend or family member

For some reason, they expect more and give less then your ordinary employee

biz and family don't mix.

That's enough blood not to give a shit.

only truth in this thread

Agreed whole heartedly!

I employed a mate and he took advantage or tried to at every opportunity. :mad:

Hell I have my brother working with me, have for the last 3 years and he has been the best thing since slice bread!

There is always the exception to the rule :winkwink:

It's actually almost a proper written rule in my family but more to do with if you all work together and the business goes down the shitter the whole family is fucked rather than everybody getting on each others tits.
Add to that don't recommend a friend for a job as they are guaranteed to turn out to be a lazy git and make you look bad too.

I think it all really depends on what you are doing and what your relationship is like. For a couple of years I had a part time business where I bought stuff at auctions then sold it on e-bay. I did pretty good. I put in about 15 hours a week and made some nice extra money off of it. My brother and a friend were both involved in it and we split the jobs equally, got the work done and never had money issues. My friend that was involved was just talking about starting it back up and I am actually looking forward to working with him again on it.

On the other hand I once bought a house with a few friends that we were going to renovate and flip. As we looked for the house and bought the house everything was cool. Once it became clear just how much work it was going to be it became harder and harder to get things done. Just getting everyone together to work on the house became a pain the ass and since I was the only one that was already self-employed it seemed like I had to handle everything since I didn't have a "real" job and I wasn't married with kids. Eventually, we finished it and sold it, but it took about twice as long as planned just to get the work done.

I'm still friends with them and we hang out all the time, but we won't be doing that again :)

Great piece of advice...

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I bet fuck that, houses are a ton of work

A mainstream site generating 100K per month?? What are they selling - cocaine? Cause I cannot think of anything else that would generate those kind of numbers. Hell, I have a pretty successful music-related site and I don't do anywhere near those kind of sales.

But have you not heard of "Keep it in the family" & "Never mix business & Pleasure"


I promise that all of these saying are just saying that worked for some.

Natalie & I work, sleep, lol even shit together. I have worked with my father in a business years ago which was very successful & my sister & I have worked together, not in the adult business & have found not a problem.
Natalie & I are friends with some of our clients & now we only see some as friends.

It all depends on your own personalities. Rob04, do you want your business to work? If you do, sit down and speak to your sibling. Forget trying to be the big I am as your sibling may have some great ideas & looking from a different angle, could make it work better than your ideas. Also your sibling must do the same. You both can make it work together. Good luck buddy.:thumbsup

Is this a South British thing? :Oh crap

he said a few, with the 'upwards of' which probably means about 90

True. I laughed just reading the title :thumbsup

Also, never loan money to family. If it isn't a question of "life and death", obviously.

nice advice.It cant mix oil and wather :pimp

It all depends on the character of the friend or sibling of course, but from my own experiences with working with family I would have to wholeheartedly agree. Worked with a family member for nearly 5 years and after that I simply had had enough. Business was good and somewhat profitable but the stress from not getting along wasn't worth it.

I think eat shit & piss together is a world wide expression, is it not?

Maybe its just a South English, British or United Kingdom type of thing?????

Thankyou RazorSharpe for your sarcasm... :thumbsup

Money and blood don't mix.

Seems to be going alrite over here :upsidedow

agreed.:thumbsup

Seen people saying this here before - where's South British or is this some old joke I don't know?

Don't rent to them either.

Doing "business" with anybody that you were not introduced to on a business level is very very risky. Too many emotions and expectations at play. The person in a higher position practically always gets burned. Just avoid it.

LOL - don't ask about "South British" ....

I'm in Scotland and lived down south for several years and I've NEVER heard anyone say "we shit together"

Just google 'loans'. You'd be amazed the amount of traffic generated for the #1 site and the value of each lead.

steel's biggest weakness is its own rust :thumbsup