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camarillobrillo  ·  3751 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The New Yorker takes us inside the

    Nick, the company’s C.E.O., has worked in grease since his early teens. He says that sucking used oil from a container used to be a little humiliating. “You’d get the dirtiest looks from people,” he says. “Like, ‘That’s why you go to college—because otherwise you’ll end up like him.’ It really bothered me for a while.” He points out that his brother recently bought a custom Bentley, which cost three hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars, to add to his collection of vintage sports cars. Nick says, “People ask, Why would anyone risk going to jail for stealing something so petty? Because nobody knows.”

That's what it's all about I guess. Finding a hidden niche and having the courage to see it through. I had no idea how valuable used grease is or how cutthroat the business to claim it. Great read. Thanks for the NYer archives link as well. Got plenty of reading for my nightshift.





user-inactivated  ·  3751 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Welcome welcome where's your night shift? Let me guess! Hotel. 7/11. Laboratory. Uhhhh. I dunno I'm gonna go try to play TF2 for the first time in six years

camarillobrillo  ·  3751 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Chemical plant. We make the sunsets beautiful. I hate it.

Wish I had some shots. Cheers!