I guess I was always into competition. I liked winning. I liked the game. I thought school was fun because I was smart and performed well. Life was really easy.
Have you noticed how rich people never seem to stop moving? They have projects here and there. They do a lot of travelling usually. When they get dressed, their clothes sometimes cost thousands. It is a different world for them. Their perspective is nowhere close to normal. Everything is an opportunity. When an obstacle comes up, they either go around it or go through it. Challenges just don’t seem to stop them. But there is a huge sacrifice being made, by mistake.
At one of my previous jobs, I got a look at a department where the normal workday was 10 to 12 hours. I saw a team of computer experts work for six weeks straight without a day off. I thought that’s what I was headed for. I thought that was my path. Anything for the money. It was all about the money. I would make the sacrifice if that’s what it took to get paid. Then my daughter came along.
My relationship with my daughter is much different than my relationship with my wife. My daughter is around the house during the week about three hours more each day. She gets home from school about three, then my wife comes in about 5:30 or 6. There is a two hour or so window where my daughter is available to play, or to go on errands, or to get piano lessons or something.
I was unemployed for over two years. Even now, my job is temporary. It’s a six month contract. After doing this for three weeks, putting in eight hours a day, the life I miss is that two or so hours with my daughter every afternoon. It was our time usually. We would go to the park and get ice cream. Sometimes the mall, sometimes the zoo. It was like heaven on Earth.
My worlds conflicted. I wanted to make the big check so my family would have security, but I also wanted time with my little girl. This is where the big problem is for everyone. A good portion of us have kids, and never get that crucial two or three extra hours with them each day. We are slaving away, earning money that will burn up in the long run, while our kids are being cared for by strangers, or no one, sometimes. This is the biggest problem we have.
Spend time with your kids. Do everything you possibly can imagine. Use that time. Jesus loves the little children, but no one can love your kids as well as you.
Have you noticed how rich people never seem to stop moving? They have projects here and there. They do a lot of travelling usually. When they get dressed, their clothes sometimes cost thousands. It is a different world for them. Their perspective is nowhere close to normal. Everything is an opportunity. When an obstacle comes up, they either go around it or go through it. Challenges just don’t seem to stop them. But there is a huge sacrifice being made, by mistake.
At one of my previous jobs, I got a look at a department where the normal workday was 10 to 12 hours. I saw a team of computer experts work for six weeks straight without a day off. I thought that’s what I was headed for. I thought that was my path. Anything for the money. It was all about the money. I would make the sacrifice if that’s what it took to get paid. Then my daughter came along.
My relationship with my daughter is much different than my relationship with my wife. My daughter is around the house during the week about three hours more each day. She gets home from school about three, then my wife comes in about 5:30 or 6. There is a two hour or so window where my daughter is available to play, or to go on errands, or to get piano lessons or something.
I was unemployed for over two years. Even now, my job is temporary. It’s a six month contract. After doing this for three weeks, putting in eight hours a day, the life I miss is that two or so hours with my daughter every afternoon. It was our time usually. We would go to the park and get ice cream. Sometimes the mall, sometimes the zoo. It was like heaven on Earth.
My worlds conflicted. I wanted to make the big check so my family would have security, but I also wanted time with my little girl. This is where the big problem is for everyone. A good portion of us have kids, and never get that crucial two or three extra hours with them each day. We are slaving away, earning money that will burn up in the long run, while our kids are being cared for by strangers, or no one, sometimes. This is the biggest problem we have.
Spend time with your kids. Do everything you possibly can imagine. Use that time. Jesus loves the little children, but no one can love your kids as well as you.