As I have mentioned before, in addition to working a full time job (now actually a part-time job due to hours being cut) I also run a vending business.

We got into the vending business about ten years ago through a seminar and started out with about 12 machines. At the time we thought we had a gotten a really good deal! With time, we figured out that we got ripped off big time, but at least it got us started. We started buying other machines and/or locations from people for a fraction of the machines we had bought originally and got to a point that we had to hire a person to keep them all serviced on time (both of us were working full time at the time). We had about 200 machines in place and making money.

Once the recession set in, we started losing business and locations. Some locations are still pretty good, but overall business has dropped considerably. And good locators are rare and expensive. So now we have a ton of machines in the basement and no place to put them.

And then there are the VPs and managers! The workers in the stores and customers are happy to have the machines, yet the “big wigs” keep having a problem with them! What’s up with that?!? Why do those people make life difficult for the “little man”? They only show up in the stores every once in a while, yet they have a problem with vending machines! I had one the other day. That machine was in place for almost five years. The manager apparently didn’t even know it was there. Once he heard about, he had me remove it! His reason: “I just don’t want it.” Come on, can’t you do better than that? My husband says it’s probably because when he was a kid he didn’t get any candy, so now he doesn’t want others to have any either!

So now I think I’m selling that business and start concentrating on my blog and eBook business!

Til next time!