re: Do you ever feel like you’ve wasted your life?

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It's time way more than money. We're secure and comfortable, my daughter will have 10x the opportunity my wife or I had, and I hang my hat on that.

But the time. I work just about every weekend. I work 1-10 2-3x a week. How many times can a man see his kid for 45 minutes a day before they grow up and resent him for it? How many times can I force my wife to watch our toddler by herself all day Saturday and all day Sunday after working full time Mon-Fri? And she makes double what I do. How many years of her life have I pissed away?

It's almost too big to even comprehend, to even begin to reconcile. All you can do is ignore the ever-increasing anvil dangling over your head and work had at changing it, but I can't say I don't feel the shadow weighing on me every second of every day.

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