Pete Theisen wrote: > The tone of your post was a slight tip-off. The famous quote "the screwing > you > get for the screwing you got" comes to mind. Divorce is just awful. > > Say, if it depends on your income - you have been seeing a downturn, have you > not? >
lol! Well, let's just say that her lawyer was shocked by my Social Security numbers and said "Mr. Babcock, I don't get it. You made well over $50,000 for all of these years and then it says you only made $13,000." To which my lawyer promptly and accurately replied: "Yeah, that's because he started his own business." The lesson I've learned: I'm obviously not in this for the money, because I made a HELL of a lot more as an employee...every time. The thing that's kept me down (income wise) has been geographic location to a major extent, and now that I'm divorcing, that may change. Still, I may still choose to be "stuck" in this for awhile as I don't want to leave my kids. I don't want my son to remember Dad as someone who left him to make more money elsewhere. That's not worth ANY amount of money to me. On that note: I wish I could find one of those telecommute gigs like I hear some folks do. You'd think that in this day and age, telecommute jobs would be much more abundant, but then again, most non-IT-tech-savvy employers don't trust us unless they can actually see us at a desk. Hell, even my long time employer who completely trusted me (or so I thought) made some shit comment about that when I had asked to telecommute. That was back in 2002. I doubt things have changed much in their mentality and those like them. Then again, I'm a VFP developer (with Oracle/SQL Server/MySQL/SQL experience), and a pretty good one imo, but that doesn't really mean much in this day and age, as VFP isn't the popular tool, and we all know that. I got my hopes up years ago when Ken Levy said he'd preach to those OUTSIDE the choir, only to be let down. I've been cynical for some time because of the IT downturn and VFP downturn in particular and now the divorce....well, that's why I started my own company back in 2003. I was determined to find a way to be happy. We all have to! Now if I could just get my personal life turned around.... _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
