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Running through the list
of all the things he’s done.
Knowing what you’ve missed
is, seemingly, quite fun.
Deliveries and shipping
and solar panel sales
all helps him to chip in
as he avoids the fails.
Selling the companies
gives Kaya an idea…
It won’t be a breeze.
(Can Cleo feel the fear?)
Diolch yn fawr iawn.
Ohhh, We-elsh Rat, We-elsh Rat
Rhyming a-ll the way
Reading your po-ems
Really makes my day (HEY!)
Good to see that Sabrina has a healthy sense of humor as well~ Of course, she’d never have married Marco if she didn’t.
And fair enough on Emilio there; it’s a bit discouraging that his businesses tend to not work out for him, but “sold” and “fold” are very different outcomes. Of course, he hasn’t answered Kaya’s question yet…what business IS he running? And does it have to do with chocolate?
If it has anything to do with chocolate then maybe it’s best he continues to avoid answering the question. 😆
True that.
I like the subtle color shading/change in panel 4, indicating that we’re looking through the windshield.
And so, we talk business.
Kaya owning a chocolate related business would be like termites running a lumber yard. The only way that would make a profit would be to sell it to someone better suited for it before it loses too much value. Unless Kaya’s business involves taste testing chocolate…
Emilio sounds like he had quite a few good businesses bringing a stable equity, maybe he should’ve continued to operate one until he’s found what exactly he wants to do for his career… Maybe Kai and Kaya should call Cleo to give their uncle some advice. I wonder if Cleo would have as much of a blast explaining it to Emilio as she would to Kaya… Also, what’s Emilio’s business this time?
Actually, as anyone ever working in chocolate related factory can confirm, you CAN eat so much chocolate you don’t want more.
Emilio has been running businesses for longer than Cleo has existed. Although none of them has been as immensely profitable as Bill Portas’ main business, Emilio has done well enough to support his family. He’s an experienced serial entrepreneur. What could he learn from a beginner who recently started her first company? It’s far more likely that Emilio could give Cleo some advice. She has her dad for a mentor, but it’s often better to learn from more than one teacher.
Why can’t they learn from each other? Cleo has knowledge of her Father’s large business and what she’s done so far, Emilio has experience with a variety of businesses. Cleo has plenty of confidence, plenty of financial backing & a different perspective, Emilio has had more time to learn how people think & react…
.
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…Actually, if Cleo and Emilio were to get together and start a business partnership, they could be quite the powerful combination… 😳
“I am older than you, so there is nothing you can teach me about this subject” is an attitude that got five teachers fired in my high school.
All at once or over time? Were you there for any or all of them?
Over time, and I was present for two of them. The other three I heard about through the grapevine (and being as they were not my direct experiences, I don’t remember the exact infractions ten years later).
One was teaching English class. He took issue with the idea that anything in Shakespeare’s plays could possibly be a double entendre (this was in 11th grade, so it’s not like there were innocent minds to protect), and gave a student detention for trying to point out the antiquated double-meanings that said dirty jokes were couched in. From my understanding, the firing was due to accusations that the student was “making things up” and a refusal to accept that, yes, the Bard DID have some dirty jokes mixed in there, despite multiple external sources and even the principal (who was a good few years younger than the English teacher) confirming the student’s research.
The other was teaching history class. One unit was on the French Revolution; a well-read student who knew the era well decided to bring up his own knowledge to his classmates after classes, and discussed certain events that would be covered in later lessons, in much greater detail than the lessons did. Whenever one of those classmates happened to bring up something the lesson missed, and cited the knowledgeable student as the source of said information, the teacher would say something to the effect of “I don’t know about it, so it obviously didn’t happen” and gave said student poor marks for “spreading misinformation” in her class. Which is the kind of bullroar that doesn’t fly for long in a school with decent authority figures.
Yeah, “I’m older and therefore you cannot possibly know more than me” is a bad attitude to have. Even if it doesn’t get you fired, you’ll still never learn anything. There’s always something new to learn, even if it comes from someone younger. Maybe fact check, but don’t just ignore it because they’re younger…
So the dragons have Italian cousins.
Panel 1: Add a comma to the first “year”.
No. Or, at best, optional. 🙂
Top-right panel; it kinda looks like Marco’s driving.
Maybe one of Uncle’s businesses could be a company that makes dual-side controls for cars. That’s a thing here in the US. A lot of postal workers need right-hand drive cars, since rural mailboxes are on the right hand side of the road. But, nearly all cars are left-hand drive in the USA. So, postal delivery drivers either need to use the postal service trucks (which can spontaneously combust) or special order a right-hand drive car, (Jeeps are popular for this) or buy/build a conversion kit for their car.
Once met a guy in Kentucky who had a right-hand-drive Jeep CJ-6. Seems some company in Great Britain ordered a batch, then went bankrupt before they were delivered. Jeep took them out in the boondocks and sold them off cheap.
For a while Subaru was selling right-hand-drive Subaru 4-wheel-drive wagons by special order to rural postal employees. Our mailman had one. Unfortunately, it was expensive, and we didn’t have a local service center so he had to drive several hundred miles to the nearest dealer.
He drives a minivan now. From the right seat. Freaks people out.
The craziest one I ever saw was a homemade one. Some guy my Dad knew had an old Toyota Camry or something, and he wanted to do postal service work with it. So, he welded a V-belt pulley to the steel part of the steering column, welded another steering column and V-belt pulley on the passenger side, and welded steel rods to the brake and gas pedals to go across the floor to the passenger side.
It looked janky as hell, but it worked.
So 1 of his companies was a “dropshipping” business? OK, I’ll admit, the only “dropship” I know of is the type that drops troops or special people in places then gets the heck out of there! I’m guessing that isn’t the type of business he was running…
A dropshipping business is a webshop without inventory. Orders are forwarded to another company that ships directly to the buyer, so the products never pass through the company that the buyers order from. It’s a way to quickly set up a webshop offering a huge catalog of products with very little investment.
So you order from the dropshipping company, they pass the order on to the actual Stockist, Stockist sends it to the Dropshipping Company who then pass it on to the customer? Fair enough. I know some online stores don’t send stuff to other countries, so I guess a dropshipping company would plug that gap…
…And Daniel the Human is glaring at me right now. Just because the only reason I couldn’t buy all that stuff is cause the online store didn’t send to Australia…
No, Stockist sends it directly to the customer. Uncle Emilio never sees the boxes. He has no warehouse, no warehouse workers, no vehicles and no drivers for receiving and sending packages – but he still gets to handle the angry customers when Stockist doesn’t meet the customers’ expectations.
There’s the UD-4 Cheyenne, used by the United States Colonial Marine Corps. That’s a really cool dropship.