Best Career move you ever made?
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Getting out of a career and getting a life. Although my career was pretty satisfying and unstressful, losing the responsibility was the best move ever...
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But how did you make ends meet?
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Depends on what you mean by career.
I quit a six figure paying job with pretty much lifetime guaranteed emplyment and good promotion prospects and went back to uni to get my second degree. Then I started two businesses which I work about 50/50 on.
I make less, have almost no month-to-month cash flow security, and have no real prospects of either company making me rich. They're not expansive types of ventures.
But I'm not bored out of my skull anymore.
I quit a six figure paying job with pretty much lifetime guaranteed emplyment and good promotion prospects and went back to uni to get my second degree. Then I started two businesses which I work about 50/50 on.
I make less, have almost no month-to-month cash flow security, and have no real prospects of either company making me rich. They're not expansive types of ventures.
But I'm not bored out of my skull anymore.
Liar
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That's a good gig. Do you have like a little stool to reach up to the mike?
Sinny
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Yes. It is the same stool my brother uses to get into the tank where he performs tricks.
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tank? Seal?
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I packed in corporate wage slavery to get behind the wheel of a class one and drive all over Europe. Half the money but a tenth of the aggro. Plus Im get to do fun things like barrel through Paris in the middle of the night, see Finland in January and sightsee through the Alps.
geronimo_appleby
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aw, i read that book a few months ago ... wtf was the title again?
Sean
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Appleby, you cunt! You still in Hell?
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sethp
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isla mujeres, mexico, sean. it ain't too bad at all.
ya slacker! I'm in Vegas now...closing in on you! lol
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When you guys say you left lucrative careers...what did you do (you don't have to be too specific) and how did you pay the bills if you were making less money. ( I'm so fucking nosy)[/QUOTE
Flipped houses basically and was my own carpenter, electrician and finally plumber. But now I am sitting on a real estate fortune that I cannot sell...
Sean
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isla mujeres, mexico, sean. it ain't too bad at all.
Bastard!
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Dear God, there was a book written about me? I should have been warned. No, no, I should have been given a portion of the proceeds. I feel so ... so ... so violated. How dare someone pen a tale of my life living among circus freaks in a close-knit cult without my knowledge or consent? There will be consequences for that. Dire consequences. I shall wield my stool as a weapon.
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isla mujeres, mexico, sean. it ain't too bad at all.
I'll say. Sounds passable.
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There's so much more to life than making ends meet and paying bills. Don't create the bills and there wont be any to pay. It's simple...
It doesn't happen overnight and it's a mindset that takes time and some effort. But it's not hard when you can look past the immediate...
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1. Head of personell at a tech firm.
2. What makes you think all my money went to paying bills? Just meant I had less after bills to waste on hookers and blow. Or whatnot.
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Leaving HP
Left Hewlett Package thirty years ago. Never looked back.
So funny how people are in awe of HP. I tell them that a management philosophy is no better than the manager implementing the philosophy
Left Hewlett Package thirty years ago. Never looked back.
So funny how people are in awe of HP. I tell them that a management philosophy is no better than the manager implementing the philosophy
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JAMESBJOHNSON
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I retired. Shoulda done it 40 years ago.
