Many people in life feel forced to choose between a good career and the people they love and want to be with. But, is choosing a career the best choice over home and family and friends and significant others.
This is always a hard choice for many people to make. I have always chosen people and beautiful places to live over any specific career. As a result I don't think I ever found a career that gave me full satisfaction. What gave me the most satisfaction? I would say raising my children and owning my own businesses gave me the most satisfaction in life. But, career other than being an entrepreneur never satisfied me.
Mostly, I really wanted to be free of everyone I worked for. I found I felt like a slave as an employee and was too intelligent not to notice that every employer takes advantage of every employee and twists every employees mind and body like a pretzel until they need psychological and medical help. So, how does one gain control of their life and time? One way is to have your own business and I suppose not all people are good at doing this. For me, my first business was when I was about 28 or 29 when I had had enough life experience and anger from working part time since I was 10 on paper routes and then working as a laborer on weekends for $1 an hour when I was 12 and working after school building things for people during the year from about age 13 to 15 and working for my father learning the electrical trade summers from age 12 to age 17. So, by the time I was 21 I was really tired of people taking advantage of me and working me too hard and not paying me enough and I was quite resentful about this. So, even though I knew I wanted to have my own business from about age 18 or 20 I knew I didn't know enough yet about life to actually pull it off yet until I was in my late 20s and could "wear enough hats" to run my own business.
Luckily, being an entrepreneur allowed me to live mostly where I wanted to and with the people I wanted to and to raise my kids and live a pretty amazing life once I was about 30. But, other people make other choices and have completely different life experiences than I did. But, I still would choose people you love and places you love over career anytime. But that is just me in my way of making choices.
I talked to someone recently in their 50s now that had gotten interested in Baseball cards and silver coins when he was in the boy scouts at about age 10 or 12. He made so much money buying and selling first baseball cards and then silver coins and then during college he started specializing in anything made of silver like trays or goblets or dishes made of silver and stuff like that. He was able to make enough money doing this to pay his own way through USC and then to get a law degree there.
However, as he was talking to Law offices he might want to work with he realized he would rather continue making money buying and selling silver and traveling the U.S. as his own boss because he would make the same money or more doing that. When I met him he drove up to the house driving a very expensive car and told me he drove between San Diego to San Francisco doing this. But , if it was further away than Phoenix he usually flew in a plane if it was further because driving wasn't cost effective except between San Francisco and Phoenix, Arizona. I thought this was pretty amazing to be doing a trade he did for fun starting at 10 or 12 in the boy scouts. What freedom and fun to mix business and pleasure your whole life!
People who do this sort of business are usually associated with Antique dealers and estate sales all over the U.S. that buy and sell antiques and silver and other valuable items from estates when older people pass on and their relatives need to liquidate their estates. One of the biggest buyers of antique furniture now is China. Because antiques in the U.S. especially colonial aren't selling here much but they are in China. Trends come and go here in the U.S. but most of the world stays more traditional in their tastes.
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