Lance Dunbar, 1 year deal with Rams

[MeanGreenMailbox aka TFLF]

3 minutes ago, GMG24 said:

Yeah... Even if he comes home with 800 K that is pretty life changing, especially for someone who was a refugee of a Hurricane whose family lost everything.  Now, if he does not spend it wisely then yeah that won't last long.  

My guess is, he knows how to manage wisely, based on those experiences.  But, 800k can be earned in just a year or two without playing football.  It comes and goes. 

[GMG24]

4 minutes ago, MeanGreenMailbox said:

My guess is, he knows how to manage wisely, based on those experiences.  But, 800k can be earned in just a year or two without playing football.  It comes and goes. 

Huh, maybe you should share your secrets.  It would take me double digit years to earn even half that. 

[MeanGreenMailbox aka TFLF]

4 minutes ago, GMG24 said:

Huh, maybe you should share your secrets.  It would take me double digit years to earn even half that. 

Work, work, work:  http://www.cnbc.com/2016/12/21/mark-cuban-if-i-had-to-start-over-heres-what-i-would-do.html

...with one of the jobs you work being in sales. 

Edited March 21, 2017 by MeanGreenMailbox

[TreeFiddy]

1 hour ago, GMG24 said:

Huh, maybe you should share your secrets.  It would take me double digit years to earn even half that. 

Secrets to getting rich:

Tip #1:  Don't go into teaching
Tip #2:  Don't go into coaching

 

[MeanGreenMailbox aka TFLF]

2 hours ago, MeanGreenMailbox said:

Work, work, work:  http://www.cnbc.com/2016/12/21/mark-cuban-if-i-had-to-start-over-heres-what-i-would-do.html

...with one of the jobs you work being in sales. 

I love the -1, by the way.  You have people who will bust their tails, and those who won't.  Generally, it's the ones who won't are jealous of those who will.  So, you get the "1%" bitching about "the rich."  Such a false dichotomy.   

What Cuban says is correct, of course.  Unless you are talking about the younger Rockefellers, Kennedys, or Bushes, people who have money made it.  And, at some point, the grandfathers and great grandfathers of the Rockefellers, Kennedys, and Bushes were the ones that hustled to make that fortune.     

If you work for someone, you will always have to take whatever it is that they pay and be satisfied with it.  It's their money.  They know that you can take it or leave it; and, that if you don't take it, someone else will. 

Sales is different.  You go as far as you want with your own effort.

800k is not a lot to many small business.  Many small businesses across the country net 800k each year; in two years, easily.  But, the people working for those firms are selling things.  They aren't sitting just drawing a 9 to 5 paycheck.  They are either taking straight commission or a small salary plus commission. 

Cuban became a salesman.  He's good at it.  He's annoying as hell - as most sales people are.  But, in the end, it's a numbers game:  for every 98 who tell you no, two to five will tell you yes.  Do that every week, and you've earned 100 to 250 new customers every year. And, some of those 100 to 250 will pay a lot. 

People make their choices.  But, 800k isn't an earthshattering amount of money to earn in a couple of years for thousands of small businesses.

Football players have a small window to make in a year what a small business might make in two years.  But, even minimum contracts in the NFL are worthless than thousands of small businesses.  

Dunbar, hopefully, has an agent smart enough to keep him from signing another "$3 million" L.A. contract.     

[WIFE2HOT4U]

think he driving a Camaro - think he knows what he is doing

me at his age, well - broke and rehab LOL

[greenminer]

Sales is much more than effort.  I see Cuban's response more as a "know your skillset, then work and save" rather than "go into sales"  The man is a damn good pitchman, and he knows it.

I have heard bartending income can be pretty dang good.  Not lucrative, but a wonderful side job.  Conversation skills don't hurt, either.

[BTG_Fan1]

Well the good thing about Dunbar to LA, is if he goes back to his form before the injury, and the Rams somewhat turn around he will be marketed very well. Also, the new LA Rams coach saw him during his time in WAS, and is an offensive-minded coach. 

Goff was better out of the shot-gun as well, so that should do well for dunbar as well. 

[ChristopherRyanWilkes]

6 hours ago, greenminer said:

Sales is much more than effort.  I see Cuban's response more as a "know your skillset, then work and save" rather than "go into sales"  The man is a damn good pitchman, and he knows it.

I have heard bartending income can be pretty dang good.  Not lucrative, but a wonderful side job.  Conversation skills don't hurt, either.

Exactly. For him, he knows those two "entry-level" jobs would work. It's about utilizing your talents to the fullest extent possible. 

[GMG24]

9 hours ago, TreeFiddy said:

Secrets to getting rich:

Tip #1:  Don't go into teaching
Tip #2:  Don't go into coaching

 

Well, Tip 1 probably, Tip 2 plenty of college coaches doing juuuuust fine. Lol