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I'm running out of gas. I could be working harder, but, I don't care. Too busy the last six months. Put the house up for sale back in April, took off to Las Vegas for a week, house sells in four days. Fly to Belleville and buy a house. Come back, work a bit, then, single handed pack up the house, order U-Haul U-Boxes, load those up, organize for transport.

 

Say good bye to Winnipeg and up to Churchill for a couple weeks. Back to Winnipeg, pick-up the car, and head off to Charleston SC to get married. Drive up To Belleville. Get a wee bit settled in. Start home renos as this place is stuck in 1986. Original everything right down to the carpets, paint, 27 yr old dishwasher.

 

Wife out of work for three months and she is the bread winner. She got her dream job, really. After four months of 160 kph, 24/7, I am out of gas. Kinda like hitting a wall in slow motion.

 

I do not have to work so hard anymore.  I have plenty of inventory, but, no. Brain is still trying to catch up to slow down.

 

Ya know what I mean?

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Yup I know what ya mean. Cat Wink

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We flew out to BC last weekend to visit MIL (94 and recently widowed) and do some house shopping. Temprature dropped about 20 degrees when we stepped off the plane back in Ottawa.

I'm taking Fridays off work for the next couple of months (using up vacation time) and wondering how I ever have time to go to work!

 

Another first year Boomer getting ready to slow down. But I've been in the work force since I was 13, and it gets to be a habit. Maybe I should take up a hobby. Writing fanfiction, running science fiction conventions, drinking cheap wine..... any other suggestions?

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not me, i'm spinning my wheel but going no where fast and still have a full tank!!!

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Angus. Go away. you have been nothing but rude and insulting to me. Leave.
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LOL now now guys play nice 😉

 

I hear you elmwood I have been out of steam for about 6months now and Ijust keep pushing through..

 

I work between my job and business a min of 300 hrs a month to a max of about 420 a month this has been like this for 3 years straight no stopping for nothing but 5 days this year and 3 days last year..

 

I somedays wonder why I do this at all .. Not anyones business but I make from $4500-$7000 a month at my real job so I really have little to no finicial need for my business but I love to work and I am sick in the head and driven by giving buyer GReat deals..

 

I found recently in the last 3 months I have been having a very rough go at it .. ITems listed not in stock anymore .. MIA Parcels etc,,, Still I keeping pushing through ..

 

From OCt 16th to Nov 16th I worked 260 of 14hr day shift work at my job with an average of 20-30 hrs a week on my business for this last 30 days I am pushing 350-400 hrs of work for the month yet I for some reason I  LOVE IT ...

 

 

 

 

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Brande, been there. When I was working full time, 9.5 hours a day, four day week, I would do eBay before and after shifts, making for 16 hour days.

End of the day, I paid all of my bills, paid-off the psychotic ex, managed to move on with my life, all because of the money I made here.

Brande, all of the work I put in has paid off. Paid off, past tense. Because I am "paid off", the desire to work has diminished, gretaly.

Kinda following in Nan's famous footsteps. Nan is the eBay Canada legend that started her business and paid off the farm. That was better part of a decade ago.

Well, I paid off stuff. I got a little money in the bank. I got a little money in my pocket.

Time for a vacation.
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o mr elwood, your'e asking for a small spanking from one of the mods.

 

there's a time to be serious and a time to be nice and relaxed

 

this is the time to be nice and relaxed

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February ...find out sewer system is full of roots.Can't fix til spring.

May...after living without sewer/water since Feb,front yard gets dug up and everything fixed.Had to sacrifice all the lilacs and my 60 foot spruce.

June..find out my grand old elm out front.has dutch elm..so does the one alongside the house.

July..end of the month I find out my younger brother is in the hospital in Van (I'm in MB).

August..Mom and I after 2 day notice make a trip to Van in 30 hrs and find out my bro isn't going to make it.We want to bring him home but can't in a vehicle and has a two day window in which he can fly commercially..After two days of being in blur making plans Mom and him fly home..I drive 22 straight hours thru BC,AB and part of SK,sleep 2 hrs on the side of the road and get home.

He stays five days at my place.. then its daily out of town trips to the hospital

We get 16 days with him.

September..They cut down the elms.

October..I start feeling semi-sane again.

Life can be worse.

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YA my wife is making me promise I will slow down next year .. I told her I would try my best but I am someone who always has to do something if I am up for 16 hrs in a day I have to be doing something for aleast 14 or I get borded and cranky....

 

Vacation is waiting for me in my 40's so another decade ..

 

I hope you enjoy your well deserved holiday maybe it will be what you need to come back strong or find a different path that you enjoy ..

 

Good luck and whatever you do enjoy

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With so many people sick at work the last ten days my circadian rhythm is really off.

 

Cutting back staff & having us switch to twelve hour shifts is tiring when three quarters of the staff are sick.

 

Got called in again this afternoon.

 

Will enjoy the enjoy the extra days off though.

 

I see a Burn & Crash coming soon but I still have to pack up the items I sold today.

 

Nice to see I'm not the only one going through this.

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Probably how most of us feel. Too many of us are over-acheivers always on the go. Slow down? Not really. Just re-focus at something else. Retire? Sure I did. Now, I am going full speed doing other things.

 

I had three months of Mrs with no job and she carries that load. That stress was other than pleasant. Now she has her dream job and the stress is starting to melt. Maybe there are not as many trees as I thought.

 

BB. That is what drove me out of work. The other people. I could handle the customers, work hours, work load, head office, all of that. I could not handle the people that were swirling the toilet bowl and taking me with them.

 

Today I am installing a French door I got for $50. Value is around $200. Too small for the opening, so, I am "modifying" the door opening. That will keep my mind busy.

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You're right Inuk.

 

I remember you scolding me, in a nice way, that I was thinking about getting a part time job after we switched to twelve hour shifts in the winter.

 

You had mentioned I would exhaust myself as I was working the same amount of hours over three days.

 

Good thing I didn't as the last ten days, due to colleagues being off sick, have been really tiring.

 

No ones fault, it just seems I'm the only one that is rarely sick. 

 

 To be honest my wife knows when to rein me in as I am usually firing on all cylinders.

 

My mind tell us me I can do it but unfortunately I no longer have the stamina of a twenty five year old.

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I seem to remember that Brande was working a ton of overnight hours during the winter due to a new addition to his family & I believe he was looking at purchasing a new property.

 

I don't think I had his stamina at his age.

 

From what I remember he was exhausted also but kudos to him.

 

However,I would think his wife probably reins him in also.

 

 

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Yes BB and I am still going strong in fact I am currently just finish working 96 hrs in 8 days all nights shifts 😉

 

Work life is great... Life with My kids is great .. Life with my wife is always a struggle and I am always working on it as I know she dserves more of my time but right now I want to make sure my kids never have to worry and that is my priority ..

 

We have 2 kids going for 4 because we both love kids so I figure another 5 years of gogogo and I will be able to start relaxing and treat my wife the way she deserves to be treated but for now there is a whole lots of I love you I'm sorry heres some roses I am on my way to work ..LOL

 

The sick thing is.. I love it I love working .. Everyone in my life thinks I am sick in the head and most can't believe how I keep working as much as I do but I love it and I also think one factor is I am ADD and always have been but I hate medication and refuse to take even tylenol so in my late teens I discovered that the best way for me to deal with it is to always be busy ..

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