Still gotta be in the right macro direction though. 

My family in Tennessee leaned into that hard with running small businesses and all eventually went under due to Amazon/Walmart/corpo competition. 

The only fully employed one in the past few decades worked for the VA her whole career 😩

I think a lot of small town America got gutted by becoming a hollow suburb.

HVAC techs, mechanically inclined solo-preneurs are doing pretty well. A lot of money to be made servicing the people who don’t know how to make things in physical world work

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