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i failed at amazon the first time. at 18 i was convinced private label was the move. spent months trying. researching products. talking to manufacturers. got absolutely nowhere. so i did what most people do when their business dream dies... i got a job. not a cool startup. not a side hustle. the SAQ. the quebec liquor board. literally one of the most corporate, bureaucratic jobs you can imagine. i spent 5 years there. worked my way up to director level. and every single day i thought i was wasting my life. inventory management. supply chain logistics. vendor negotiations. sales forecasting. reading spreadsheets until my eyes bled. none of it felt like it was leading anywhere. then at 25, i came back to amazon. this time doing online arbitrage instead of private label. and something weird happened. all those "boring skills" from the SAQ? they were the entire game. → tracking inventory across locations? that's managing FBA shipments → reading sales velocity data? that's keepa graphs → negotiating with vendors? that's understanding margin → managing a team in a slow-moving organization? that's patience when amazon takes 3 weeks to check in your inventory i didn't realize it at the time, but those 5 years weren't a detour. they were training. the stuff that makes most new sellers quit: the spreadsheets, the tracking, the waiting, the boring daily grind of checking numbers...that was literally my day job for half a decade. i'm not saying you need to work at a liquor board. but whatever you did before amazon: retail, office work, trades, whatever, you probably have skills that directly apply to this business. you just haven't connected the dots yet. the people who win at amazon aren't the ones with the best product sourcing instincts on day one. they're the ones who treat it like a real business. who track everything. who don't panic when things break. who show up even when it's boring. because this business is boring 90% of the time. the 10% that isn't boring is when you check your dashboard and realize the boring stuff is printing money.