Post of the year right there!
Who did you wanna be as a kid?
- Thread starter jjgold
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Blame me for the extra curricular comments opening the can on this topic in a virtual locker room full of gamblers, some degenerates
.I just knew what I didn’t want to be - another guy trapped working in a deep mine, living in a trailer and getting buy paycheck to paycheck. I wanted to do something white collar and never be stuck in some backwards shit hole.
Now I’m nearing 52 - hate my white collar job and have zero sense of fulfillment despite having plenty of cash - I find myself wanting to just move back to the middle of nowhere and just sit back tending to my little corner of the world and dealing with no one. Ironically - it was selling out the exact place that I envisioned retiring to that set me up financially. I thought one day I’d get a chance to buy another and go back - now looks like that may never happen. By the time I am able to get back - I’ll be unable to physically keep it up.
When we are young we are full of ideas and aspirations- when we reach adulthood and have the means of achieving them - we are too stuck in other things to follow through.
Now I’m nearing 52 - hate my white collar job and have zero sense of fulfillment despite having plenty of cash - I find myself wanting to just move back to the middle of nowhere and just sit back tending to my little corner of the world and dealing with no one. Ironically - it was selling out the exact place that I envisioned retiring to that set me up financially. I thought one day I’d get a chance to buy another and go back - now looks like that may never happen. By the time I am able to get back - I’ll be unable to physically keep it up.
When we are young we are full of ideas and aspirations- when we reach adulthood and have the means of achieving them - we are too stuck in other things to follow through.
Also will mention - when I was a kid the guy I absolutely wanted to be someday was the old guy who lived out the road from us.
Total badass in my eyes - drove a El Camino SS, played a red sparkle telecaster through a silver face deluxe reverb and was knew all the popular country of the day in the mid 70s. Used to play regularly every weekend with my grad dad and dad occasionally joining in.
Older guy in my eyes (read mid 40s) and no kids - just him and his wife. They kinda adopted my parents who were young, broke and barely getting by. Would regularly come over helping do projects around the house (he was a handyman type working odd jobs when he wanted to). Lived life on his own terms - did what he wanted and never had to answer to some damn boss for a paycheck. He was as good as there was in my eyes - miss those days when we grew up poor and every weekend was a party of a mix of relatives and friends crashing at our house - playing music or cards all night followed by a big meal every Sunday.
Total badass in my eyes - drove a El Camino SS, played a red sparkle telecaster through a silver face deluxe reverb and was knew all the popular country of the day in the mid 70s. Used to play regularly every weekend with my grad dad and dad occasionally joining in.
Older guy in my eyes (read mid 40s) and no kids - just him and his wife. They kinda adopted my parents who were young, broke and barely getting by. Would regularly come over helping do projects around the house (he was a handyman type working odd jobs when he wanted to). Lived life on his own terms - did what he wanted and never had to answer to some damn boss for a paycheck. He was as good as there was in my eyes - miss those days when we grew up poor and every weekend was a party of a mix of relatives and friends crashing at our house - playing music or cards all night followed by a big meal every Sunday.
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