On Day 28 I talk about the possibility to leave the big city lifestyle and keep the ability to make a good income.
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good afternoon everybody all right so
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windy windy windy day here North I don't
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know got a storm front moving in over
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the next three days so we've got all
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kinds of stuff rolling around
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but not to bad weather Sun was shining
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most the day and fall some fall colors
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we don't have very good fall colors here
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but not like they do in the Midwest the
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East Coast that's for sure
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so today I just wanted to talk about
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let's see I had on my mind
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feasibility of living in smaller
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communities I think in today's day and
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age there was wind oh there we go
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in today's day and age there's so many
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towns you know between the 30 to 75
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thousand population that are really
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economically viable to relocate to if
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you're currently living in a large
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metropolitan area and you know you're
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just sick of it you know most people not
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most about a good good amount of people
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stay in those areas because you know
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their career whatever it is that they
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decide to do they're worried about being
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able to find a job that you know offers
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even 8090 percent of what they currently
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make even though their cost will
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probably go down in the smaller
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community as someone who coming from my
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perspective you know the less people the
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better to a point you certainly don't
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want to be
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at least me personally I don't want to
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be somewhere where you know the town's
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got 500 people and you know you're three
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hours away from a town that's even got
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20 or 30 thousand people right it's just
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it that makes everyday living pretty
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difficult even though obviously there's
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a lot of benefits but I mean you're
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talking serious serious economic
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hardships with that so unless you're you
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know if you're retired or you know have
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a monthly income from that or you know
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even trying to do business any kind of
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business over the Internet generally you
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get too far out in the boonies and it's
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really hard to get decent connection
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another satellite internet out there but
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with today's HD videos and pictures and
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web streaming and all that I mean you
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use your data pretty damn quick on a
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satellite internet feed so I mean not
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saying it can't be done in certain
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satellite service providers are better
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than others but it does make it
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difficult so we're gonna address is you
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know how you make that move from that
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super urban or suburban you know even if
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you're sitting on like the outskirts of
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Atlanta or Houston or something and you
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want to get you know you want to get
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within three or four hours outside of
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any of those big metropolitan areas but
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you still want to be economically viable
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I am starting to look around quite a bit
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online for different ways to make a
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second income even if it's just mainly
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for educational purposes and someone
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like me who doesn't like to you know
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this is kind of a challenge to myself to
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put myself out there a little bit but I
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don't naturally do that I don't even
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have
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book bitch don't have a Twitter account
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anymore man I guess I do it's just and I
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never use it and certainly I don't do
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snapchat or Instagram crap but you know
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I probably should if I'm going to do
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something online right any kind of
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business online and so you know today's
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video is going to be about being able to
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run a business online or take your
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certain skills that you have and
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applying them in some fashion to being
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able to have you
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mostly at home
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or full-time job working from you knows
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you might still need to you know to
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commute into work twice a week you know
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if your boss makes you but you know this
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day and age if you're in any kind of
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pusher paper-pushing industry for the
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most part as long as you've got sound
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internet connection at your house why do
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they need you there you know I know
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there's meetings and there's stuff like
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that and you want to be a part of that
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so but you know let's say you're
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currently working at an accounting
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office or even a you know an
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architectural drafting for something
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like that you know for the most part if
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you're in if you're in one of those
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those kinds of fields you can move an
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hour further outside of town to kind of
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you know keep yourself from dealing with
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just the constant I just gonna call it
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noise over all right the you know the
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constant traffic the constant EMF
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disturbances the stress of dealing with
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all of what comes with being jammed into
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a rule and that rule at urban setting
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and you want to get back to having a
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little more property you want to be able
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to maybe raise some chickens have a
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garden have a little buffer between you
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and the masses you know I would just go
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right out and ask you know your employer
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hey you know I really love working here
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I love working for you guys however you
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know my family and their quality of life
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is more important we're gonna sell our
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townhome in the middle of you know
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bonanzaville and we want to you know go
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get this little five acre hobby farm but
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it's you know it's an hour out of town
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is there any way we can work something
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out where I come in once or twice a week
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commute in I'd handle all the hardcopy
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stuff that's necessary and then download
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all the essential software onto the
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personal computer which you probably
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have already done if your company allows
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that and just satellite from from home
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if you're a good employee
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and you show that your move is not
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because of them that you really love the
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firm and you want to wear in the front I
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use the word firmer I should just say
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company right
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and that you enjoy working form and all
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that stuff you know play a little
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kiss-ass even if it is the truth
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and I think you'd be surprised at how
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many people would say yes I really I
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really think you might be surprised
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because you know this but like I said
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with this day and age it's becoming
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almost more about they're doing you know
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their studies study this productivity of
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work of workers and that people can be
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more productive in because they're not
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dealing with all the nonsense of
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you know commuting into work everyday
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having to figure out what they're gonna
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do for lunch dealing with any kind of
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drama that might be happening around the
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workplace you know a lot of people are
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inherently opposed to having someone
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tell them exactly when they could have
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to be somewhere and when they have to
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leave a lot of people aren't huge fans
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of having that obligation to that
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structure you know when it's not by
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their own choice myself being one
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and you know you could see morale and
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productivity go up significantly I mean
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here at home as long as you're set up at
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all you've got everything you need to do
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to perform your your tasks that you need
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to for work you can certainly find that
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the
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and so it certainly first and foremost
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go ahead and find out from your employer
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obviously it's only applies to certain
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careers as I touched on but find out if
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you could be a satellite employee
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you know just see how it goes if they
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say no that doesn't work out you know if
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you're approached it in a
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in a very cordial and correct manner
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use your words appropriately and like I
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said kiss but a little bit you're gonna
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find you're gonna find that even if they
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say no it's not going to be like
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really negative note might just be
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listen you know we need you here for
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this this and this and this
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I'm sorry maybe a little reference you
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to somebody in the area that you're
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moving to would like to move to so no as
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long as you keep it professional and
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polite I don't think even a rejection
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would be negative representation of
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yourself so give that a try first
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secondly you know if you just want to
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leave the company r with and your skill
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set is he is one of those in which can
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be used in a satellite manner meaning
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from home not having to go to the office
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then start marketing
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business that you want to run now Wow
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you still have your other job so you can
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land some clients whether it's like tack
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services you know keeping those are big
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ones medical billing it might be a
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little a little different than what
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you're doing but you know you get web
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design a lot of IT stuff can be done
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remotely you don't have to be there with
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all the technology today you can log
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into anybody's computer with certain
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programs right so certainly IT you could
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teach
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college courses you know be a Skype for
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all those internet students out there
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there's a lot of crap you can do you can
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you know start your own online retail
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business there's various different ways
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to do that and promote it you can be a
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wholesale buyer and seller on Amazon
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there's there's a lot of ways you could
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do this so educate while you still have
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your current job and you know plan for
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the move
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I think anybody who currently has a job
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that would allow them to do that
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to do a lot mostly computer work
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we'll find it you know really beneficial
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they just start that little process at
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learning more about how they can make it
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happen you know after two or three
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months you might start feeling pretty
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confident that hey you know what I think
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I'll be able to put in my 3/4 we've
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noticed that my company
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we'll be able to survive
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I think I can pull off
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at home business and you know it's just
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a matter of knowledge I gain the
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knowledge that
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now for those of us out there who don't
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currently you'll see what kind of jobs
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you might have to be hungry
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obviously if you're any kind of
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manufacturing you know doesn't get more
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much more hands-on or in-house or you
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know
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in the workplace that manufacturing does
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so there that can be a tough one but if
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you know how to do the C&C; stuff
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you know I drew CAD
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I mean you can generally speaking and
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find employment or if you have a
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property that has a shop on it you know
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you could start your own
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we start your own small business from
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your property once you once you made
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that move out of the city and you know
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there's a million different examples I
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really I really think the Internet and
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the broad spectrum use of the Internet
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by basically everybody now right yeah
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everything we do is on the Internet
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there's so many even if it takes career
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change and you might need to take like
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you know a speed course online you know
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like a six five six seven month
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certification thing just to learn all
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the ins and outs of whatever it is you
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want to go into you know you can learn
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that all online while you prepare to
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make that move and then land you know a
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job that you can do remotely computer
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programmers like I mean Jesus I mean
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Peter programmers aren't going anywhere
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and there's not enough of them now and
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if you really put in the time and effort
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you can make really good money being you
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know contract for hire you know you can
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be a consultant or contractor in the IT
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field doing different kinds of
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programming there's like I mean I don't
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know how many there's at least a dozen
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different different programming
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categories
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people are in so there's a lot of stuff
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out there and it's not always
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comfortable making a jump unless you're
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me the only thing that holds me down is
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I not hold me down that's the wrong way
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to say another thing that keeps me
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anchored it's probably the best way to
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say it is you know having a wife and
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kids because I'm a frickin I'm a gypsy I
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go all over the place all the time and
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randomly try new stuff on a whim which
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is an okay quality to have at times and
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other times and get you in trouble so
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you know well yin and yang thing wife
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tries to balance that out a little bit
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when she does but yeah it can be a
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little bit scary but don't try to do it
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all at once you know learn the education
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process and if you if what you really
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want to do is have a more relaxed
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lifestyle get out of the city doesn't
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mean you have to live in the boonies
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like I said I mean I have 10 acres but
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you know I
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a mile and a half down the street from a
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really reputable elementary school you
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know it's got about three or four
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hundred kids and you know I've got you
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know the street I'm on right now is only
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about two miles down the road for me and
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you know every 500 feet is a house so
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you know I can go to the gas station in
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five minutes doing a Costco and whatever
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2025 minutes so you know everything's
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relatively closed and there's no reason
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that you can't have at least you know
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you don't have to go from one extreme to
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the other but you know there is middle
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ground there and depending on where you
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where you live currently and we're
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looking at relocating you can get away
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with doing a lot as long as you don't
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have you know CCR's and all these
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restrictive things like you know HOAs
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and I just can't stand it you know
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people telling you you can't have
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chickens or you can't have a garden that
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kind of crap I believe if you're moving
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out of the city to kind of get out of
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that rat race that should be on your
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mind you should not want to allow
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somebody else to continue to tell you
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how you can
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you know use your property and also you
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want to try to get benefit of getting
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out of the public water system basically
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all public works you know get off the
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sewer and get off the get off the
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municipal water supplies because they're
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just terrible I mean they're absolutely
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terrible I mean you can spend money and
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get a whole house filtration or get a
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Berkey for your drinking water and stuff
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like that but better off just to get
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some Oh water and you know I still
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filter my well water but Berkey because
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it's a big aquifer and I don't know you
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know what some company ten miles away
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it's doing and what they're dumping in
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there but all in all I mean you can make
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it happen I encourage everyone to try
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and make it happen certainly think
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there's a pretty substantial movement
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for this you know in percentage-wise is
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definitely up on how many people just
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kind of want to know
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have to deal with smog in the
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electromagnetic fields constant stress
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of the hustle hustle hustle hustle
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hustle which I'm doing right now anyway
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even though I don't
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I live in the big city so you know
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that's another thing just because you
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move out of the big city you got to
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change your lifestyle as well and my
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wife and I are working on that because
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it's you know it's not good for the kids
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you don't spend enough time doing stuff
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with them at some point we want to be
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able to homeschool our kids at least for
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like the core education we you know my
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send a half days or something like that
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get into program so they do social
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things and sports and whatnot but you
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know we definitely want to step up our
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game when it comes to parenting and so
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we are kind of starting that longer-term
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vision and process of simplifying our
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life in finding ways to make money from
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home and this is a big learning curve
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for me because when I got married I was
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pretty young and I was just kind of
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getting out on my own so you know as a
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guy it takes a while for us to grow up
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and to realize things about ourselves
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and and it's it's you know now I'm
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starting to feel pretty comfortable and
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more confident that I could pull
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something off you know working more at
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home than have to drive around and you
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know in if he or somebody who wants to
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home-school I mean that's even that's
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another huge thing I know a lot of
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people sacrifice who want that kind of
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lifestyle but the guy or
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whoever isn't as good domestically is
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you know still driving doing a long
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commute working so that the other spouse
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can homeschool the kids and take care of
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the property a little bit but until both
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parents are able to spend most their
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time on the property you know I think
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that's when the quality of life starts
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to really show up you know you're on
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your own schedules you're yeah you're
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you you're responsible for the risk that
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you take but at the same time you know I
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think that's that's part of living is
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being accountable and having that
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knowledge that you know it's up to you
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you succeed it's on your shoulders if
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you if you don't that's also on your
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shoulders and you know that if you fail
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that creates growth I've had some
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failures that's for sure and you just
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got to learn from them and plow on but I
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definitely encourage anybody who just
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wants to change a lifestyle and just
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slow it down a little bit get more back
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get back to to nature basically touching
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feeling seeing their food spending more
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time with their family to just get
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online and and start trying to figure
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out ways that fit your skill set to make
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a living for a moment all right that's
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it for now guys thank you
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