My Wife Reads the Book of Faces, I do Not.
This Morning She Said Something that made Me Think.
Now That I am Older.
I Think about Running Away A LOT more Often Than When I was A Kid !
My Wife Reads the Book of Faces, I do Not.
This Morning She Said Something that made Me Think.
Now That I am Older.
I Think about Running Away A LOT more Often Than When I was A Kid !
I suspect the psycho-analytical types will be all over this. What would you be running away from? Better to try to fix it than run away from it.
All I can say is... yes.
Dropping everything and running? Every day.
I stopped going there as a prelude to deleting it completely. Interestingly, my life has not changed for the worse. As far as damaging addictions go, that one was fairly easy to break free from.
Living in the city of Chicago my mom always talked about the urban legend of a guy that walked to the corner for a pack of cigarettes and never came back.
Since she raised six kids maybe that was on her mind a lot.
Wanting to run away from the wife when you are older - is a natural desire
mr2s2000elise said:Wanting to run away from the wife when you are older - is a natural desire
That starts about the time the nookie gets cut off.
Non-FB equipped. I remind my wife that maybe she should be a bit more diligent in her FB news source checking from time to time.
If I wasn't married and didn't have kids, I would already be gone.
The last kid will be out of high school in 3 years. If he goes to college that's another 2-4 years. I probably won't participate in the rat race much past that point.
Have thought about it many times.
I love my job but I could sell here and pick up a fair bit of land in some place ending in "unincorporated", hang my shingle and probably get enough money doing odd welding and fab jobs and fixing power equipment.
Problem is, I really love what I do now and I won't love the other option.
Not quite the same, but similar...30 years ago, I had a boss who was nearing retirement. His last day was to be on a Friday, but on Tuesday he told us guys in his department that he still had a couple unused vacation days left so he was leaving that day. He quite literally dropped his pencil on his desk and walked out the door, and that afternoon he and his wife got on a plane to Hawaii.
The Human Resources person came around the next day looking for him, and was surprised to find out he was long gone. While a lot of guys will stay in contact with their employer after they retire, and maybe even come back in from time to time to help out, that was the last anyone saw of him...he was done.
I plan on following his lead when I retire. 
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