Choices....

I have been blessed. I have done many things and MOST I enjoyed it. I like making things and working on things and that is what I've done all of my life. Each job has been a learning experiance that led to the eventual ability to do almost anything that I liked. I can build or make nearly anything or fix nearly anything that ever worked. For the last 30 years of my working life, I was self-employed and did pretty much whatever I wanted to do.

My customers were my friends and many of the older ones got visits from me pretty often just for me to say hi and do the little things that were hard for them like changing light bulbs and little tasks that I did for coffee and maybe a cookie or two. I enjoyed what I did and who I did it for. When you own the company you just don't work for people that you don't like.

I didn't marry a rich woman BUT I sent mine off to college when my baby went to school. We didn't believe in daycare for our baby. That is kind of funny because we turned our home into a sort of daycare for other people's kids. Those kids were like our kids too. We kept them for pay Monday through Friday but then sometimes kept them on Friday night or Saturday for free so our co-parents could go out or just have a kidless night. I love kids and especially babies so for us the spare kids were a blessing and a pleasure. I worked at night most of the time and then played with the kids in the morning and slept in the afternoon. llff vcffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff`vvvvvvvvvvv
That is BEAUTIFUL Thanks for sharing
 
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I have been blessed. I have done many things and MOST I enjoyed it. I like making things and working on things and that is what I've done all of my life. Each job has been a learning experiance that led to the eventual ability to do almost anything that I liked. I can build or make nearly anything or fix nearly anything that ever worked. For the last 30 years of my working life, I was self-employed and did pretty much whatever I wanted to do.

My customers were my friends and many of the older ones got visits from me pretty often just for me to say hi and do the little things that were hard for them like changing light bulbs and little tasks that I did for coffee and maybe a cookie or two. I enjoyed what I did and who I did it for. When you own the company you just don't work for people that you don't like.

I didn't marry a rich woman BUT I sent mine off to college when my baby went to school. We didn't believe in daycare for our baby. That is kind of funny because we turned our home into a sort of daycare for other people's kids. Those kids were like our kids too. We kept them for pay Monday through Friday but then sometimes kept them on Friday night or Saturday for free so our co-parents could go out or just have a kidless night. I love kids and especially babies so for us the spare kids were a blessing and a pleasure. I worked at night most of the time and then played with the kids in the morning and slept in the afternoon. llff vcffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff`vvvvvvvvvvv
TexDanm, that’s awesome....
 
There were times during my career I would have chucked it all, dealing with bureaucracy and people who didn't get paid to think was mind numbing. Then having to contend with the sad/disturbing aspects of the job was distressing at times. Looking back in hindsight, however, I don't think I'd change much even if I could. I got to work with amazing people from the world's two finest military forces (US and UK), travel the globe, and work on technology that was beyond my wildest dreams. I was both lucky and blessed.
THAT sounds very cool and fulfilling!!!
 
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Just imagine what the ladies would have missed Wands, lol.
I just blew coffee outta my nose. Thankfully Oz I have my iPad wrapped in a java-proof protector.

Thanks for lifting my ego this morning and testing my respiratory reflex.
 
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I had a lot of fairly wealthy customers and it was sad as hell to me how many of them had kids that seemed to be miserable and there were a lot of suicides out of proportion to their numbers. I think that in order to be an heir to a fortune that your parents may not have had as much time for them as my parents did me or how much time I spent with my daughter and now my Granddaughter. Money doesn't buy happiness... Wealth for me was to always have a little more money than I needed and to have a three-digit balance in my bank account at the end of the month.
 
I had a lot of fairly wealthy customers and it was sad as hell to me how many of them had kids that seemed to be miserable and there were a lot of suicides out of proportion to their numbers. I think that in order to be an heir to a fortune that your parents may not have had as much time for them as my parents did me or how much time I spent with my daughter and now my Granddaughter. Money doesn't buy happiness... Wealth for me was to always have a little more money than I needed and to have a three-digit balance in my bank account at the end of the month.
We all need money to survive but I think people get caught up in making a fortune and lose sight of it's meaning. As Bob Marley sang, Life is worth much more than gold.
 
We all need money to survive but I think people get caught up in making a fortune and lose sight of it's meaning. As Bob Marley sang, Life is worth much more than gold.
I would rather be poor and happy than miserable most of life just to have material things.
 
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