Too Cool For School

[BLINGMW]

For me family comes first, my personal happiness, enjoying the moment, and then work. I had trouble finding a job that put my ISAT degree to use at first, worked for Bimmerworld, got married and moved to ATL for 3 years so wife could get a law degree. Worked as warehouse manager. None of those paid well and wife wasn't working yet so with rent and school loans and cheap cars we were neither going into debt nor saving for retirement, and I still had a cheap track car and fun on the weekends. Moved back to Roanoke to start a family. It was only then that I found a starting career in energy management. Now I have my own business, 2nd wife, 3 kids. We still don't make a lot of money, but cost of living is low, my parents live next door, wife teaches piano, we have a garden and family and health and good times. Real life has almost always been better than the stress of school, and I wouldn't have traded any of it for 2x the money living somewhere I didn't want to live or missing out on the people I love.

I would highly recommend finding any job in Colorado and moving. Either you love it, or it helps you respect home, or gives you another idea or perspective. Travel some more if you can. All work and travel experience is good experience.

Don't buy things you cannot afford, and if you get married keep your expenses down to where either of you could pay them, and you'll be fine!