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Originally Posted by michael6372
Thanks for the reply! I have thought about school, the problem with that is I work swing shift. That makes going back to school impossible. I have tried to move to a different department in the mill so I can just work day shift but there are no openings. My company is trying to reduce the number of workers at our mill and our union contract expired about 16 months ago. If the company gets their way with the contract they are offering, they will be able to cut 20-25% of the workforce here(about 200-250 jobs). The town I live in has only 13,000 people and the job outlook here is very bad. There are alot of things I would love to do for a living. Living in such a small, older community makes it hard to start a business that will be successful. I have seen many people try to start a business here only to have it closed within a year, just not enough people to support it. Sorry for sounding so negative, just trying to give an idea what it's like here. I have thought about trying to start something online so location isn't a major factor to being successful. I do not have very much experience besides working on the family farm and the paper mill(I also filled oxygen cylinders for a medical co. for 5 yrs). Work ethic isn't a problem, I think my lack of experience and not having a degree is what's hurting me the most. If you don't mind me asking, what do you do and how did you get there? Any advice is greatly appreciated!!!
Michael.
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Michael,
I retired at 40 - in order to stay home and raise my own kids rather than have them in daycare... I was a factory rep in the furniture biz (wholesale to the trade)... and traveled a 4 state area. My wife started to work for a startup company in 1984 for HALF the money she was used to, working for a big bank... The banks at that time were all having troubles. So she went to work at a small company (600 employees at the time) Microsoft (nobody had ever heard of them then!). I live in Bellevue, WA. When I quit working - there was a "promise" that MSFT might become something - and it was more important to us to have our kids have parents than it was for the parents to drive BMW's.... WE got real real lucky... it all worked out. But at the time the decisions were made - it was just "the right thing to do at that time". She traveled and worked about 80 hours a week... I traveled and was gone for trade shows etc... we enjoyed hall sex (pass each other in the hallway and say F U)... I'm very very lucky to live around other very successful people. I listen to their stories and learn from them. Not one of them ever dreamed to be where they are now. They all worked long and hard and suffered setbacks etc. But the difference in being successful and not - is that they were WILLING to put in the effort - whatever that is (and it's different for everyone). And not only were they willing - they DID. They're DOERS.. There's doers and there's dreamers... I'd prefer to hang with the doers... Sometimes the doers fail even after gaining success... but most of the time - they recover - because they're still doers...
