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I have asked this question before….but maybe in the wrong way…?

Posted on March 31, 2012 by admin| 14 Comments

My dilemma:

I am 39 years old, and in a career that pays fairly well ($130,000.00/year +). It is a sales position, which means that I can earn bonuses on top of the salary mentioned above. I came from very meager beginnings, and served four years in the U.S. Air Force after High School. I attended college after that. If someone would have told me that 11 years after graduating from college I would have a job like mine, earning what I now do, I would have taken it – no question about it. Even now, I know how fortunate I am and I wouldn’t just bail out. The job is not a horrible one, just not one I care a lot about.

Money is nice, but I must admit that I would trade the job tomorrow for one that I really love doing. My problem is that I haven’t a clue about what I would “love” to do. Let’s face it; we all have hobbies that we enjoy. Heck, I like to go fishing, but wouldn’t want to do it for a living. I like to cook, but doing that for a living doesn’t sound right.

I’ve taken online aptitude tests, and so forth, but that type of analysis hasn’t yielded anything interesting. Is it just a matter of trial and error? Do I have to quit a great paying job and take a flying leap of faith that one day it will just happen? That is a scary idea!

I thought about Law School (a relative who is a successful attorney has described the typical day in the life to me….no thanks).

In what field can you feel that you are really helping people, making a positive impact, and also making a good living?

I’m all ears!!!

By the way, please don’t tell me how lucky I am to have a good job. I know that I am. This is not really about money, but more about looking back on my life 40 years from now and knowing that I actually did something worthwhile. Earning money is necessary, to be sure. For me, that can only be part of the equation. I need to have goals beyond the almighty dollar.

I hope that some of you will feel what I am saying/asking. Thanks.
I am recently divorced (although this disatisfaction with my career existed during my marriage). I ended my marriage after realizing it was not right for me or my ex-spouse. We are still friends, no kids.

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What are our rights as a homeowners?

Posted on February 3, 2012 by admin| 6 Comments

I am a legit homeowner. A year ago a family moved in to our subdivision as a lessee. The family is in a street food business, they make preparations outside their premises, causing flies and rotten smells. Their dogs are on loose and 2 incidents of dog bites have already happened. The food carts are blocking the way that people need to walk from the end of the block since they are second house on the block. The homeowners have petitioned and call for the homeowners association president. But since the president is a close freind of the family, nothing happened to the pettion. The dilemma is happening again. The dogs and ducks are out, carts blocking the way, the water they used to wash the big dishes flows on the street..and now they have added a monkey tied on a public tree. Since we have made a first move, we are requesting for a new meeting with the president. We will ask for a written agreement that the family will sign, if this will no push tru, what else can we do?

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Beef or fish?

Posted on March 25, 2011 by admin| 5 Comments

The enternal dilemma when flying :)

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Buying a house dilemma?

Posted on December 10, 2010 by admin| 5 Comments

Hoping I can get some emotionally detached help.

Hubby and I are looking for a new home. We sold our property but don’t settle for another 6 months so we still have plenty of time to look around.

We looked at a house on the weekend and hubby absolutely loves it but I am not 100% sure. It basically ticks 95% of what we are looking for but the huge downfall in my opinion is that the master bedroom is quite small. The walk in robe is also very small, the linen cupboard is in the laundry, which is off the garage, which I found really strange. The house is 4 bedroom and the other bedrooms are not very large either, 1 of those is basically a study. The formal living area is not all that large either and this can’t be increased without major renovations. The family room off the kitchen is a decent size but this would mean having your main living area right beside the main bedroom and my hubby is a night owl so I would probably have the TV blaring in the room next to when I am sleeping. Hubby’s thoughts are ‘you don’t live in the bedroom’ and yes he is right but basically all you can put in the room is a bed, no room for our chest of drawers or tallboy like in our current house. I am use to space. We don’t have kids at home and could put this furniture in the other rooms but I don’t want to spend a bucket load of money on a house and have to reorganise all my furniture cause the rooms are too small. The master bedroom and walk in robe could be made bigger by moving a wall but this would create a strange alcove to access the bedroom…hubby can move the wall, he built our current home himself.

All other aspects of the property are superb and A1. I don’t want to sound like a whining snivelling snob here but I also don’t want to be discontent with what will be a very substantial purchase.

I have made a list of the good and bad and the good far outweighs the bad but it is playing on my mind. I am about to head off overseas for 2 months so can’t get back to look at the house until I return (fly out next Saturday) and hubby is pushing me to tie this deal up so we don’t lose the house. I guess I really in a small way hope we do lose the deal but in others I don’t. I love where the house is and all other aspects. Properties in the area don’t come up at the price of this one very often.

My thoughts are to wait until I get back and have another good look then.

What would you do and am I being a ‘size snob’?

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What are our rights as a homeowners?

Posted on July 11, 2010 by admin| 6 Comments

I am a legit homeowner. A year ago a family moved in to our subdivision as a lessee. The family is in a street food business, they make preparations outside their premises, causing flies and rotten smells. Their dogs are on loose and 2 incidents of dog bites have already happened. The food carts are blocking the way that people need to walk from the end of the block since they are second house on the block. The homeowners have petitioned and call for the homeowners association president. But since the president is a close freind of the family, nothing happened to the pettion. The dilemma is happening again. The dogs and ducks are out, carts blocking the way, the water they used to wash the big dishes flows on the street..and now they have added a monkey tied on a public tree. Since we have made a first move, we are requesting for a new meeting with the president. We will ask for a written agreement that the family will sign, if this will no push tru, what else can we do?

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