jelloman
Couch'd Tater...
...not a GOOD plan, mind you, but what can you expect when you start paying attention to what the voices in your head are telling you to do...
About 8 years ago I got fired from my truck driving job, right when the economy tanked and there was double digit unemployment...I survived for 2 years by driving a taxi, often coming home after a 12 hour shift with only 40 or 50.00 to show for it...every instinct was telling me to run, to just hit the road until you found some place to start over...couldn't do it, though, because I had mom to taken care of and a mortgage to pay, so I stuck around...
Now I find myself with just the house holding me down....I have pretty much cut loose from everything else now that mom is gone...once the house sells there is nothing left holding me down, nothing rooting me to this spot...
Oh sure, I have my job...it's a good job with security but I am severely underpaid and really see no prospect for that situation to improve...but it's just a job...I was looking for one when I found this one...and I have a very marketable skill set so finding another one doesn't present me with much stress...
My family is here, and I love them dearly, but they all have families and lives of their own...
So...the possibility exists that the sale of the house, whenever it happens, could put me in a position to be able to take a big risk...quit my job and hit the road...find out once and for all if there is something out there for me...
I can buy a small camper trailer used for just a few thousand dollars and drag it all over the country behind my truck...plus I just received a shiny new US passport, So the whole world is open to me...
If I get a decent price for the house I can probably put 50K away and still have about 20 or 30 thousand to use for this...I can go a long way for a long time on that...
The more time passes the more this idea is standing at the forefront of my consciousness...the only question is will I have the balls to actually do it when the time comes...
About 8 years ago I got fired from my truck driving job, right when the economy tanked and there was double digit unemployment...I survived for 2 years by driving a taxi, often coming home after a 12 hour shift with only 40 or 50.00 to show for it...every instinct was telling me to run, to just hit the road until you found some place to start over...couldn't do it, though, because I had mom to taken care of and a mortgage to pay, so I stuck around...
Now I find myself with just the house holding me down....I have pretty much cut loose from everything else now that mom is gone...once the house sells there is nothing left holding me down, nothing rooting me to this spot...
Oh sure, I have my job...it's a good job with security but I am severely underpaid and really see no prospect for that situation to improve...but it's just a job...I was looking for one when I found this one...and I have a very marketable skill set so finding another one doesn't present me with much stress...
My family is here, and I love them dearly, but they all have families and lives of their own...
So...the possibility exists that the sale of the house, whenever it happens, could put me in a position to be able to take a big risk...quit my job and hit the road...find out once and for all if there is something out there for me...
I can buy a small camper trailer used for just a few thousand dollars and drag it all over the country behind my truck...plus I just received a shiny new US passport, So the whole world is open to me...
If I get a decent price for the house I can probably put 50K away and still have about 20 or 30 thousand to use for this...I can go a long way for a long time on that...
The more time passes the more this idea is standing at the forefront of my consciousness...the only question is will I have the balls to actually do it when the time comes...