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One must observe that for every "large" company there are over 1000 "small" companies.
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Agreed.

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And for every "Gucci" there are 1000 smaller shops and designers, many of whom are millionaires.
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Agreed.


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Not everybody can be, or wants to be, a Gucci. And there are still very good livings to be had.
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Agreed. But that does not mean every company is well-equipped to be at the other side of the spectrum as well.


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Of course, for those who get to "invent" customers rather than actually earning a living from them, it is much sexier to pick a pretend big company to serve so you can act important.
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An interesting comment. Not sure what your point in this context here is. Are you saying/asserting I have "invented" my customers? What is your point?

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But at least one person here states that she has "thousands" of mom-and-pop customers.
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Here in this thread or here in this forum?

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Do the math- if she can get a few hundred bucks out of each of them per year, she's earning more than you will until you become a partner- that is assuming that you've had time to attend law school while you were doing all this cool commercial dotNET work with those huge customers. So lets not scoff.
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I see. Tell me, how do you like your sour grapes?

Talk about irrelevant (inaccurate) and non-value added contributions....you just made them.

You really need to get that chip of your shoulder.