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Post by sandsman1 on Jan 29, 2005 22:27:48 GMT -5
andy i didnt forget you --- i have a head full of worrys right now but soon eather way ill be able to relax again i go to court 2/7 and fight the insurance company for my disabilty benifits to try and keep them so ill be eather happy or sad but at least ill know where i stand --hahaha
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Post by docone31 on Jan 29, 2005 22:38:38 GMT -5
Andy. The hard part. Changing career fields. Ah...... I left corporate America. Period. I had a few hobbies, did a few things at least as well as a few other folks I knew. Nothing I could jump into and restart life. I hated my life, my work, and I wasn't sure I could do anything else. I threw it away, and went to live in the woods in Alaska. I had no skills, no tools, no idea of what it would take. I just did it. I either made it, or I died. Either way, it was better than what I had been doing. What held me back was my conviences. Hot water, electricity, automobile, house, food. All recquired money. Each one was tied in to the other and it all added up to being able to work for more money the next day. I felt like I was chasing my tail and never caught it. What I have learned. The janitor knows more about the company than the boss. There is no grey area, it either is or is not. You want to work with wood? Take a sabatical from programming, get out of debt, and get a job at a shop where you can start at the bottom. Every muscle will ache, you will bleed, your ears will ring, your eyes will itch, people will scream at you. Suit up, and show up. Keep showing up. Find a company and target it untill they hire you. Start at the bottom, work harder than you have to, ask a million questions, run every day, and always have a goal. You can always go back to being a programmer, and I bet you are a good one. If you like wood, go where the wood is. Get a job on your determination, and make them glad. Learn, inovate, and do better every day. Make every day a new hill to climb, and never let yourself get to the top of your hill and then sit. You will, after you pay your dues like woodworking. It is tedious, monotonous, dangerous, loud, dusty, smelly. There is however no satisfaction like doing your best and it being good. You can always build a small boat, sell it, build a better one, sell it, and do your own thing like that, or something else. You can do it.
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Post by Original Admin on Jan 30, 2005 15:41:35 GMT -5
Doc. You have hit the nail on the head. I sat here reading your message thinking christ allmighty this guy knows me inside out. OK, Alaska is my dream and you knew it. You bugger. ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png) Honestly youve won me over with that post, I printed it out and keep reading it. I dream of chopping logs in snow covered hills. I dream of a log fire on a log house which I built. I pan for gold in cold rivers for fun an lolly pop. I can leave if I need to to see the parents. I can trap. The people around me need money and more. I need LIFE. I can indeed graft in a workshop, and my eyes will leak. But in Alaska, its all worth it. I like a HARD CHALLENGE DOC. Please write more. As I need a kick in the arse. Andy.
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Post by docone31 on Jan 30, 2005 19:49:47 GMT -5
Andy, start a new post. We do not want to blight Sands thunder. He deserves way more than we can dish out for his work. Start a new thread, and I will deal with what I have learned, and thoughts on what I should have done. I will tell you first hand, it is not a joyful choice that made me walk the pioneering trail. It was better to die by the hand of the creator than the filthy hand of man.
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Post by Original Admin on Jan 30, 2005 22:56:08 GMT -5
Docone - you are correct - tell me about Alaska please - new thread in appropriate area "Life the Universe and Everything".
This is no thread for my whinings and gripings!!
Soz Sands.
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Post by Original Admin on Jan 30, 2005 23:05:25 GMT -5
Sands, I know youve not forgot.
Good luck and best wishes with it......
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