It has been a few years since I posted here. Not sure if anyone I care about actually checks this anymore, or if it is only creepers who are looking at some of the shady things I once wrote about?
Here is a list in somewhat chronological order of what the last 5 years of my life have looked like.
- Bought a business
- Bought a storefront in the town where I grew up.
- Did a full rehab on the storefront
- Moved back to the suburbs of Chicago
- Built up the business like 10x over 3 years
- No longer liked the business I was in or my position in it and decided to sell the company.
- Sold 80% of my business and stayed on as a partner.
- Paid off House!
- Had a friend die who was only 38 years old. Maybe a year older than me at this time
- Decided to move out west.
- Sold my condo
- Got Married
- Bought a new house in Oregon
- Rehabbed the house in Oregon
- Tree Fell on the house in Oregon
- Bought into a few interesting businesses.
- Moved to Oregon
- Took up Crabbing and foraging (mushrooms & berries).
- Sold my share in those interesting businesses
- Sold/Forced out of the remaining 20% stake in the business and got stuck w/ a 3 year non compete.
- Started a new company w/ a partner.
- Bought out partner.
- Took on a new partner.
- Felt like a turd and had some self doubt for about 2 years, but did not realize what was going on.
- Had a handful of other friends and internet buddies die over the years
- Got back into fishing
- Removed partner
- Gotten pretty good at site development
- Went on a bunch of hikes, but no where near what I should be doing since I live so close to all this natural beauty now.
- Turned 40 fucking years young and experienced some of the rebellion a body will make when you sit at a desk for 25 years.
- Finally hit a stride w/ the new business after lots of ups and downs
- Trying to get some other areas of my life in order.
I wrote this once and wordpress shit itself and I lost the list and post.
The first one was a little bit better and had a better conclusion.
I have lots of hindsight on all of the above things and may make some longer posts about certain parts.
What have you been up to?
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