I live with my friend who'se a financial advisor. Overall he's a great guy, really good at his job. But like ... this guy has a phobia of doing any housework or DIY stuff, its scary. He was showing me around, and he wanted to get a GC to fix some shit in his house, but it was dumb crap like replacing a breaker in the breaker panel, or putting a screen on a window, or buying a valve key for the fireplace (those square looking ones). I was thinking, you don't need a GC for half this crap, like it can be done by yourself pretty easily.
And then there's the stark difference in the way we think, I'm a very minimal, like to get dirty kind of guy. He's very much more of the glamorous, likes to show off mindset. The thing is, I don't mind it, especially if he's gifting me this stuff, but its clear that his lifestyle and mine clearly do not match, at all. He likes to drive expensive cars, I still drive my beat up truck. And sure, some could say my truck is on the older, run down side, and it doesn't look like a Porsche or a Mercedes, but it doesn't need to. It has a functional purpose, of which it does it really well, its paid off since I paid it in cash, has no severe mechanical damage of any kind.
I live with my friend who'se a financial advisor. Overall he's a great guy, really good at his job. But like ... this guy has a phobia of doing any housework or DIY stuff, its scary. He was showing me around, and he wanted to get a GC to fix some shit in his house, but it was dumb crap like replacing a breaker in the breaker panel, or putting a screen on a window, or buying a valve key for the fireplace (those square looking ones). I was thinking, you don't need a GC for half this crap, like it can be done by yourself pretty easily.
And then there's the stark difference in the way we think, I'm a very minimal, like to get dirty kind of guy. He's very much more of the glamorous, likes to show off mindset. The thing is, I don't mind it, especially if he's gifting me this stuff, but its clear that his lifestyle and mine clearly do not match, at all. He likes to drive expensive cars, I still drive my beat up truck. And sure, some could say my truck is on the older, run down side, and it doesn't look like a Porsche or a Mercedes, but it doesn't need to. It has a functional purpose, of which it does it really well, its paid off since I paid it in cash, has no severe mechanical damage of any kind.
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