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I Do Not Need Your Money!

No More Favors,. A recent falling out with a friend has rehashed the old saying, Do not mix business with friendship.  We all know it’s true right? We all know not to lend money to friends and do not mix business with pleasure. We are all guilty of sometimes breaking the rules.

Such is my case with a friend recently. He had been cash poor and property rich for a while and I have helped him for free with his properties and my thanks was usually a free meal someplace.

Until recently I have helped him with projects property and personal things when he called. Often rehashing the same shit repeatedly. Which became annoying. We ended up mixing business with friendship and that’s when the train went off the rails.

Desperate people do desperate things.

Once he began questioning my expertise on the advice of his assistant, I knew things were going sideways. If you do not trust me as a friend, CEO and businessperson, we are done.

While I hope the friendship is salvageable. I will never do business with people whose reaction is always a knee-jerk reaction without thinking things through. The more stress you are under, the less likely you will be to make rational, educated decisions. You will look for the easy way out and for the quick band aid solutions as opposed to the logical, possible long-term solutions you should be making. Do not be desperate, well that is the wrong phrase, you can be desperate. Just do not make desperate decisions. You may consider them solutions but in the end, they will cost you dearly.

No More Favors

Nope, you want me to do something, you pay, and if you are a friend, no more business crap. I’ll help you out with contacts and leads and off we go. I do not need the stress or the aggravation. I need to focus on myself and me alone and the close friends around me. I do not need your problems on top of mine.

With more and more people contacting me on social media for business opportunities, that is what they will be. Business and nothing else. Friends will stay friends and both of our lives will be better for it. So there, are no more favors, business is business and friendship will remain friendship.

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Zsolt Zsemba

Zsolt Zsemba has worn many different hats. He has been an entrepreneur, and businessman for over 30 years. Living abroad has given him many amazing experiences in life and also sparked his imagination for writing. After moving to Canada from Hungary at the age of 10 and working in a family business for a large part of his life. The switch from manufacturing to writing came surprisingly easily for him. His passion for writing began at age 12, mostly writing poetry and short stories. In 1999, the chance came to write scripts. Zsolt took some time off from his family business to write in Jakarta Indonesia for MD Entertainment. Having written dozens of soap operas and made for TV movies, in 2003 Zsolt returned to the family business once more. In 2018, he had the chance to head back to Asia once again. He took on the challenge to be the COO for MD Pictures and get back into the entertainment business. The entertainment business opened up the desire to write once more and the words began to flow onto the pages again. He decided to rewrite a book he began years ago. Organ House was reborn and is a fiction suspense novel while Scars is a young adult drama focused on life’s challenges. After the first two books, his desire to write not only became more challenging but enjoyable as well. After having several books completed he was convinced to publish them for your enjoyment. Zsolt does not tend to stay in one specific genre but tends to lean towards strong female leads and horror. Though he also has a few human interest books, he tends to write about whatever brews in his brain for a while.