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Re: Advice to the Younger Guys: DO IT NOW!!!


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Posted by redtom on March 14, 2014 at 08:55:39 from (97.84.200.136):

In Reply to: Advice to the Younger Guys: DO IT NOW!!! posted by Buzzman72 on March 14, 2014 at 06:05:18:

I will take this a step further and tell the young men-and women, to seek out a career that pays well! Go for the gold when your young! Then you can coast. I could have been anything I put my mind to but I chose to be a heavy equipment mechanic, because I liked it, after obtaining a rinky ding bachelors degree. Instead of becoming an accountant or engineer or comp programmer and laughing at them, I chose this. I'm now 51 and a lot of them can retire soon. I am at the ceiling of my pay scale and with three kids what was good pay became okay pay and now just barely enough pay. I busted my hump to pay off my house which I built myself, bought a few tractors to restore and thought I could enjoy things now.. It is painfully evident as I work check to check that I will have to work until I'm 70. I have not one extra dollar to play on my hobby I finish most weeks with $2 in my wallet. I never waste! I have never been on a plane. Don't own a boat, snow mobile, jet ski or cool old car. My kids seldom get to go anywhere and our big treat is take out pizza. My young nephew was talking about a good paying job he could never do because he didn't have the "passion" for it. Passion! He!!. Passion doesn't pay the bills!!! Work a GOOD paying day job even if it sucks and relax and play on your off time. Or,...do it my way.


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