Working

 The problem for me regarding working is that I worked so much between ages 10 and 21 that by 21 I was ready to retire (at least psychologically) and the other problem was I was really tired of being exploited financially and people making money off of me as a young person to an extreme degree. So, also by age 21 I was ready and angry enough to become an entrepreneur too.

It took me until I was about 28 years old to be successful though in wearing enough hats (so to speak) to be successful in owning my own business which eventually led to several businesses over time. But, I think I was all the time more suited to becoming an entrepreneur than anything else because of my family's tendency to be very inventive and creative and always building things, even businesses.

I first at 20 tried to be a computer programmer and realized that I was 50 years too early to do what I wanted to do so I was pretty disappointed at the time (1968) because I had "Star Trek" with Nemoy and Shatner types of fantasies of what I could actually accomplish then (but like I said I was 50 years too early for a variety of reason for what I actually wanted to do. So, I returned to working at first with my father as an electrician for awhile at age 21 before I returned to college again and studied to be a psychologist until I met my first wife and we got married and had a son. Then I had the impetus to begin to start or buy businesses from age 28 on to support my family ongoing.

So, one of the things I researched early in college was that I realized that even though I had mostly been raised Blue Collar emotionally that both I and my father were college material and both good at thinking outside the box so to speak. I also studied how working 9 to 5 doesn't usually get a person ahead in life and often leads to disappointment in multiple ways. So, I adopted the idea of "Working Smarter not harder" which is one of the ways people make money but also enjoy their lives too.

I watched already too many people literally "work themselves to an early Grave" already in my life and I didn't want to repeat what I had already seen in people's lives with many dying in their 30s and 40s in the 1950s and 1960s with nothing really to show for their struggles when they died.

My cousin's mentor lawyer died at 42 and this was quite a lesson for my cousin. So, he decided to work 4 10 hour days so he always had 3 days completely off a week. That worked for him and he still has a law practice in his late 70s since he still loves being a lawyer after deciding to do this at age 12. He is likely the ONLY person I know who still enjoys what he decided to do for a living when he was 12.