Working sucks

[CRHeel94]

I do that now. Go to bed thinking about all the things I still need to get done. I've awoke so many times thinking that I was late on an approval or authoring a document. That's sort of the point of salaried positions, they expect you to always work or at least be thinking about work.

Most of my working career has been in the corporate ranks. Definitely plenty of sleepless nights from work-related stress and stuff you needed to get done.

But man, I'm still haunted by the bad sleep of when I owned my own business...night worried about making payroll, about paying rent, about losing three days of sales to power outages, or that time we had a plumbing leak and flooded the store beneath us (a jewelry store). That was a fun call at 6 AM.

 

[CRHeel94]

I thought being your own boss was supposed to be awesome.

Always pros and cons.

I had the ultimate flexibility. I could work any of the 80 hours I wanted.

There was a great deal of pride and satisfaction...but it was brutal. Owned the business for 5 years and eventually sold it. Cried tears of joy when I opened the business, and tears of relief when I finally sold it.