Thread: getting out of it

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My brother is a Colonel in the Army. He seems to like it and has served for 20 plus years now as a Doctor. He's on his way to Afganistan next week. I wish you well.

Scooter, it's clear you're frustrated, and probably a little tired of talking about this stuff 'cause it ain't real pleasant for you. I'd bet if you had the chance to meet up face to face with any number of folks on this site or anywhere else you hang that you'd find some guys (or gals) that spent a part of their life in a similar place to where you see yourself now. That's not to minimize how you feel and what you're going through, but to illustrate that you can work your way out of this funk and have a good result. Others who are very much like you have conquered similar demons. But that's only going to happen when you come to the realization that no matter how much interference comes your way it's within your power to make change happen.

To summarize a couple of the very good points made above: "A goal without a plan is only a wish". It doesn't have to be a big, elaborate, down to every detail plan, Pick the most important issue and tackle that first, then the second, then the third, and so on................you eat the elephant one bite at a time.

I've already weighed in earlier but Uncle Bob's post brings back memories of the early 80's for me. We had a shop in Iowa, Body Shop/Auto/ Truck/Farm equipment repair. Carter's grain embargo put the squeeze on farmers (our customers) so we found ourselves on a sinking ship. To make a very long story short I found a job in the 11th hour of looking, out here in IL. We ended up selling nearly everything out of necessity & since it was a depressed area we got about .28 cents on the dollar. That was not enough to get us above water so for a good long while working the new job I made payments to the bank back home until we got out from under the whole deal. Did I mention we had a 2 year old & a 2 month old @ the time to take care of.
Now about 30 years later it's a whole different deal.
If things had turned out a little different (as in) if we could have made it go and hung on to that business, I don't think we ever would have realized the life we have now. I think we would have always been just getting by. At the time I thought it was the worst thing that could happen especially with 2 little kids in tow. Looking back it was without a doubt a blessing in disguise.

Hope everything works out for the best for you too Scooter.