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Old 10-08-2004, 07:24 PM   #31
Sylvanfan
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Originally posted by 8 Ball@Oct 8 2004, 10:32 PM
It is simply a matter of personal choice, I don't blame anyone for not agreeing with me.
Exactly, there are no wrong answers to a questin like this because everyone is different, and everyone experiences some form of change throughout his/her working life. I will say that I never much realized how important time for yourself to do what you want is until just recently. I've been observing a lot of different people and how they handle their worklives and it looks like the ones who have best control of their personal time seem to be happiest. A co-worker of mine who's been laid off for 3 months now was offered the chance to come back to work, but with the condition that he do a specified job in a predetermined time frame and take the responsibiliy. He declined the offer saying he was getting enough on EI that he could come back and work on his own terms when that type of job was available. This guy used to work on the Pipelines and made quite a bit of money. Eventually the lifestyle got to him so he decided to get out, and take the time to enjoy himself rather than work himself to death. So after 5 years of job number 2 he decided he'd really be happier with job 1.

I don't work for myself, so that pretty much eliminates any chance of me getting rich from my current job (sadly it's not with an Oil company either). By accepting less money, and freeing up some more time for myself it would allow me to pursue other interests where I might be able to develop sometype of bussiness for myself to help me generate enough money to make up the difference, or just be able to do things that I want to do. I really wanted to go to Kamloops and visit my folks for Thanksgiving this weekend. Problem is that I'm forced to get a whole lot of work done so that the customer can start working on this building on Monday. Seeing as I'm more of the job number two guy I have to give up my weekend. I just hope that I don't regret not using the weekend to go visit my parents someday. Chances are that I will.
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