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It was on that day. I first learn. Job security doesn't exist, they could me in the other room, getting shown the door. I want to wars, just as I had in my previous corporate job, all of which I trust in the past year, as I ask myself why I hung onto them for work I did years ago. Does anyone care employee of the quarter, Thralls part of a team that rolled out a successful project for our biggest client you vs. In short, I have been moonlighting for three years working on a side business with a couple of other guys, our nearly all San weekends. I've been too a girl. During this time she got fed up with me, pudding work before her, so she dumped me that stung quite a bit. Then I got there offer my dad that you don't want to guess. He had prostate cancer his common among men, but the sea word scares the pants off you no matter what he eventually recovered. Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done and what I had toiled to achieve everything

was meaningless a chasing after the wind. Nothing was gay. Under the sun does averse from the Bible has struck a chord with me during that time I started request. And what I ve been doing with my life working? That's it and while I enjoyed what I did it's all, I did my have: no friends, no goals, no purpose. I was extremely successful on the outside inside. I was tired by corpse I t job was just that a job I could have gone to live in a shock in the hills and the impact on the world would have gone unnoticed. I was working for what the time I had no idea what a budget was, but I've been tracking my expenses, I knew spent on stuff. So I did some quick math What do I need a minimum to pay my bills, mortgage food utilities, insurance, gas and there were just over thirty thousand dollars a year, most of which went to my big fat mortgage to cover my needs will be taking a fifty thousand or year pay cut from a great job. Brows prepare

I had a fully stalked six month. Emergency fund to fall back on, I paid of all my other debts furniture, my school loans I had already so my car man, got rid of the payments anti cash for a beat a pickup truck. I call them this partner and asked: do we have enough need to pay me two thousand five hundred dollars a month, so I can quit my day job and work on our business full time. He said he would get back with me later. On that day, he called back and said. Yes, the business was may be enough for me to get a paycheck when our call ended. I started writing my resignation letter. The following Monday. My handed it in I'll be You mean job I enjoyed and people enjoy working less, but I can't go on, as I had been, there is a trap I fell into. Man is far more common for men fall into it and women. If I work more than I can make more give my family more. So they can have more. They will be happier at the time I was married and didn't have kids, but the trap Missis aim for everyone, more there's. No.

Saw named cats in the cradle. The opening lyrics are quote. My child arrived The other day he came to the world in the usual way, but there were planes to catch and bills to pay. He learn to walk. While I was away unquote, that's the trap I was after bigger, better fast Furthermore, the problem is the wasteland, thus left in your wake. As we work towards those things broken really, Ships, poor health lost time overwhelm and stress. It is a chasing after the wind I've never caught the wind, have you even today. Sometimes I will find myself trying to catch it. I have to hit the right. Said under my myself you ve been down that road before it leads to nowhere. Star in smaller roses I now have the luxury of working because I want to not because I have to awaken everyday getting to help people avoid the mistakes I've made and live their best life today, tat someday. Yes, every time I see arose my stop and smell it, its remit,

you're to enjoy their now. Instead of focusing on the next, I could work more I could buy. The more I could earn more? I could do more, but experience was seeking more of always ended up with less and the inverse is also true. The less I work the law so by the less I earn the less I do I end up with more more of it important to me free time stuff that matters health relationships and peace You just listen to the post titled. Why quit my job and took a fifty thousand dollar pay cut by Scott? Turner of Scott Alan Turner, DOT, com in schools, the author of the best- in book? Ninety nine minute millionaire the simplest and his book ever on getting started, investing and retiring rockstar rich. Would you can find on Amazon and he is star, hotel, musician, super talented, either featured on Forbes.

Business insider an more. He isn't it retiree. Now spends his time, helping other save anger. Debt check out the Scott Alan Turner Show he has described your fairer podcast up prosecute by Scott turned out com because he has a free Ghana how to save a thousand dollars in just one week. He offers a ton of value so again subscribe to his podcast. An visit his website. All of them are named Scott Alan Turner and Alan spelled. And is crazy, musician Just like he is. I went through a very similar experience when only and I were starting our business. We check to see if we can for to pay me very little just to get by and we up close to it, and exactly four years later, I was still added and haven't had a bar sense. Annesley they'll do

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