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Weekly update:
Friday
rolling around again. The new TRADING ROOM is coming a long. Where
the 3 rd. floor nursery used to be. Where we did the three year research
on vegetable growing in Belize and wrote the book on it, for the UN
FAO. Since then things have exploded in vegetables nationwide. All that
re-bar and netting and grow tables are gone, and in it's place is a 14'
x 14' wood structure. Wood siding, got finished this week, finished the
outside painting this morning. Painting siding 3 stories up in the
boondocks is no joke. Really dangerous. I have a new apprentice
carpenter, a 16 yr sharp boy, who did not finish primary school. Had to
teach him tools, which he is learning quite well. Rule measurements
bit slower in metric and inches. He's learning quite well all my boat
building wood carpentry shortcut tricks and now I'm leaving him more and
more alone to finish work assignments. Raised his day worker pay, he
is doing so good. He and my old 63 year
old brother-in-law finished the rest of the metal roofing Monday and
Tuesday. Gustavo is back to his computer exhausted. Mostly his job was
passing tools, up and down. Maynor the boy is now staining today, all
ceiling beams and woodwork a brown oak. Looks good, but when I checked
up on him, he was getting smears all over the white underside of the
metal roof. Gave him a talking to, handed him a rag and gallon of
kerosene and got him to clean it, while it was fresh. The ceiling has to
look beautiful, with wood beams and rafters against a white underside
metal background. Next week with a bit of luck we shall also start to
lay the tile floor. About 220 square feet. Also finished installing,
the three tinted glass louvered aluminum, screened windows this week.
Starting to look like a TRADING ROOM now. Am running almost a few
months shy of 3 years since we started JAGUAR CAPITAL MANAGEMENT. Not
making any profit yet, but high hopes by January, with any luck. And
that ENTREPRENEURIAL GOVERNMENT OF BELIZE DEPARTMENT ON LOCAL TV,
TALKING ABOUT TEACHING ENTREPRENEURS IN 2 MONTHS, JUST MADE ME LAUGH AND
LAUGH AND LAUGH! The academic types bemoaning that young entrepreneurs
couldn't make a profit on their GOVERNMENT LOAN money in two months,
they were going to extend it to six months. ( another laugh and chuckle
) They should ask my entrepreneurial daughters. A speculative house
or boat you build to turnover, takes about 3 to 7 years. A tourist
business sometimes in one year, but more often, it takes four or five
years. How they expect academic eggheads working on theories to teach
Belizean youth entrepreneurs is beyond me. They don't have a clue!
Friday
rolling around again. The new TRADING ROOM is coming a long. Where
the 3 rd. floor nursery used to be. Where we did the three year research
on vegetable growing in Belize and wrote the book on it, for the UN
FAO. Since then things have exploded in vegetables nationwide. All that
re-bar and netting and grow tables are gone, and in it's place is a 14'
x 14' wood structure. Wood siding, got finished this week, finished the
outside painting this morning. Painting siding 3 stories up in the
boondocks is no joke. Really dangerous. I have a new apprentice
carpenter, a 16 yr sharp boy, who did not finish primary school. Had to
teach him tools, which he is learning quite well. Rule measurements
bit slower in metric and inches. He's learning quite well all my boat
building wood carpentry shortcut tricks and now I'm leaving him more and
more alone to finish work assignments. Raised his day worker pay, he
is doing so good. He and my old 63 year
old brother-in-law finished the rest of the metal roofing Monday and
Tuesday. Gustavo is back to his computer exhausted. Mostly his job was
passing tools, up and down. Maynor the boy is now staining today, all
ceiling beams and woodwork a brown oak. Looks good, but when I checked
up on him, he was getting smears all over the white underside of the
metal roof. Gave him a talking to, handed him a rag and gallon of
kerosene and got him to clean it, while it was fresh. The ceiling has to
look beautiful, with wood beams and rafters against a white underside
metal background. Next week with a bit of luck we shall also start to
lay the tile floor. About 220 square feet. Also finished installing,
the three tinted glass louvered aluminum, screened windows this week.
Starting to look like a TRADING ROOM now. Am running almost a few
months shy of 3 years since we started JAGUAR CAPITAL MANAGEMENT. Not
making any profit yet, but high hopes by January, with any luck. And
that ENTREPRENEURIAL GOVERNMENT OF BELIZE DEPARTMENT ON LOCAL TV,
TALKING ABOUT TEACHING ENTREPRENEURS IN 2 MONTHS, JUST MADE ME LAUGH AND
LAUGH AND LAUGH! The academic types bemoaning that young entrepreneurs
couldn't make a profit on their GOVERNMENT LOAN money in two months,
they were going to extend it to six months. ( another laugh and chuckle
) They should ask my entrepreneurial daughters. A speculative house
or boat you build to turnover, takes about 3 to 7 years. A tourist
business sometimes in one year, but more often, it takes four or five
years. How they expect academic eggheads working on theories to teach
Belizean youth entrepreneurs is beyond me. They don't have a clue!
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