[QUOTE=Tugted;36360]You are working for the wrong outfit or need to quit trying to be the high roller in BFE Louisana. I worked 2 for 1 but that was on a harbor tug & we went home after the jobs were done, but if i’ve gotta live on a boat its gonna be equal time. I can’t see where 2/3 of my life needs to be spent on a boat, hell 1/2 is enough. I make plenty of money & made some good investments when i was younger in the real estate market & have in turn got a nice house, boat, truck, & the old lady drives a nice ride as well & my kids went to private preschool before public school. I guess you gulf fella’s think its alright being away that long, but i’ve got hobbies, friends, & a family & if i need extra money i’ll go run a boat @ home for the day & make cash money & go home @ night.[/QUOTE]
Sounds like you are blessed and I am glad for you. I am just getting started in life and my kids do go to private preschool. I put the important things first.
School tuition falls somewhere in between the light bill and the cable bill. We can always read instead.
I spend all my money investing in my family. That will be my best investment and my legecy in this world.
Kids first, Wife next, God falls in there somewhere and then me.
havn’t spent much on me in a long time. Wife takes care of that for me.
I live in a former port of prosperous shipping and marine transportation. But now I have to travel thousands of miles sometimes to find decent money.
I live in a rural, econimically depresssed county.
So I will do what I can and enjoy the times at home to the fullest.
I have been around home more latley anyway so I am feelin much better about being a part of my kids’ lives.
We aint never tried to keep up with the Jones. We got our little piece of dirt and we have made it our own. But we pay big city prices for everything because we live too close to the big city.
Middle class used to be and still is considered to be by alot of people with at least one parent making 50k / yr.
My wife even works part time to keep up benefits on her and the kids while I trip.
But we would not have what we have and be as blessed as we are if I did not keep our income over 100k / yr.
Most “regular”, “middle class” couples both work. In most suburban areas each parent will make around 40k give or take / year. Combined income of 75-100k per year. That’s what it takes to make it where i come from. Two can make it and pay the babysitters to raise your kids or one can make it and one can stay home with the kids.
maybe if we lived whre prices wernt so high we could get by on a 1/1. But just like you most guys I have worked with that work a 1/1 dont’ need it as bad. It’s easy to say what you will and won’t do when you have money.
But I can go down to the home depot and pick up as many good hard working men as I want and pay them cash to do a hell of a job too.
But Pancho and Sancho don’t have any investments or the luxury of turning any work down either.