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DesertKajun said
Well if your passion is Marine Aquariums then it is. You cant have a day off for Christmas, or take a weekend off. Fish have to eat and if a system has a pump go out you can loose 10k in a few hours. Employees are the main issue fish guys and fish girls are hard to find. I had one reliable employee in the 5 years, heck even caught a Mormon girl stealing coral.

In hind site I would have opened an Asian Massage parlor cause that sells itself and you just gotta go pick up money.....

We are talking about business not passion. I love fishing and eating oysters and beer, but I'm smart enough or lucky enough to have not made the bad decisions depending on your perspective to have not decided to become a charter captain or an oyster bar owner.

I know full well I'm not cut out for 80hr weeks in a restaurant or dealing with 120 wait and kitchen staff. I know from simple math than you can't make what my lifestyle requires by running billfishing charters in NW Florida.

But that's not the point. You are here on this thread blaming Obama for your business failure. You've cited restrictions and regulations and fear mongered about upcoming tax cuts and other perceived problems. You've also proffered some seriously bad math and asked us to believe you when a cursory review of your numbers makes it pretty clear that you are either engaging in dishonesty or that you had a flawed business model.

Further, here you are now talking about passion and hobby when, in fact, those have nothing to do with the structural capacity of a business to make money.

Here's what I think is the truth. You love fish and aquariums so you turned your hobby into a business that you had little idea how to run so you did what you thought was best and you weren't making enough to make it worth while. And, you quit. There's nothing too wrong there and it happens every day and with all the success we had in retail, I've opened a couple of stores that were dismal failures due to bad location choices which in translation are my failure to properly do my job.

I didn't blame fantastical upcoming regulations for my failures though.