re: I'm tired of working for someone else.

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I have learned more about finances from this guy who barely finished high school than all my grad and undergrad business classes combined.

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Probably a hidden advantage to my engineering curriculum is the lack of finance classes. I've been reading this board's advice amongst others and I've done exactly as you mentioned. Live below my means, put as much aside into savings/retirement, and make do with the job I have.

I am certainly not looking down or suggesting people to not start a company. I simply have had the benefit of seeing the other side of the coin where the business owner put everything he had into his company and is still a slave to the corporate world. When most people think a business owner of 30+ years would be sitting on a beach right now. My father would not change a thing about his decision to start a company or the years he owned it. He loved every bit of his company. Life happens though