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Originally Posted by will76
Its all relative I guess. You wouldn't give up the time you had from things you have done the past 10 years but you will lose time over the rest of your life. If you would have worked more and missed some family stuff back then you would likely be able to do a lot more family stuff in the future, have more money to help your kids, enjoy you life going forward.
The way I look at it, I would rather put my time in now and enjoy the rest of my life being financially secure and not having to work unless I wanted to. Not work "part time" till the day I die, and be greeting people at walmart when I am in my 70's because I didn't bust my ass when I was younger. Just shoot me if that happens.
Another bump for your sale.
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Well look man, what's right for me probably isn't right for you, or for anyone else really. I'm not trying to tell others how they should live their lives, I'm just giving you the reason why I chose to do things the way I did.
Tomorrow is promised to nobody. My dad died at 53, my wife's dad died 10 years younger than that. Her brother died in his late 30's.
Shit happens.
If you knew for certain you'd be around "X" years then you could plan your life accordingly, but none of us know that.
Even if I knew for certain I'd be around, I didn't see the point in missing alot of my son's childhood so I could have a shit ton of money in the bank and spend time with him when he's a teenager. That rarely works out....by that time you're basically a stranger to them and rather than appreciate all the material things you can give them, they actually resent them and see them as the reason that you weren't there for them early on.
Anyhoo, don't want to turn this into an episode of Dr. Phil......I had a great run, and now it's over. I'm back to the corporate world with it's dog and pony shows and cya memos, and just want to cut ties with this biz completely for several reasons.
First $7500 takes the whole ball of wax.
Anything less than that and I might as well keep it, headache or not.