I have written about working for a billionaire before. I left a while back to stay at home more but I was recently reading that the company is being sold, and thinking about the founder "Charlie" finally walking way got me thinking about my life. 

When I say I worked for a billionaire, I mean I was a peon way down the ranks. I think I was in a total of three meetings with him in 20 years. At one point he reached the top ten richest people in the world.  His employees always talked about if they were as rich as "Charlie" they would have long quit their jobs and be doing such and such.  I always had two issue with people that thought like that. The first being, that you will never have that kind of money specifically because you think like that.  Two, if you really wanted to do such and such, you would have quit a long time ago and just done it.

Some people are born to be billionaires, they don't all make it, but, they have that drive. Some people are born to travel their whole life, and their income doesn't stop them from doing it.  My point being, you have to make things at happen at some point. I worked 20 years making a living, traveling 40 weeks a year, and saving. I guess I was born to be a worker bee, or so I thought. I got married late and started having kids and it dawned on me that I didn't want to do that anymore, so I just walked away at 45 years old.  I still work when I want, and travel when I want, not because I am rich, but, because I was determined to live my life this way now.  There is some sacrifice, I don't buy new cars, I am not moving out of our paid for house to a bigger one, we don't eat as much, but, I am at home when my kids wake up and when the get off the bus from school.