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Currently a couple of years in to the fourth career I've had since graduating from art school in the 90's.Doing okay, could be worse. Could be better.
I could have a bigger salary, but I like getting the salary I get because I only have to work the standard hours. Outside of those hours I completely forget about work and projects. I cycle along the coast to get to work, and I cycle home. I see my kids for breakfast and I see them at bath-time and storytime in the evenings. I never work evenings or weekends.
My salary doesn't afford me untold pleasures. but I have not worried about cash flow for the last two years I have been employed. I have enough money to live well, to eat well, to have stuff for my family, to afford holidays, and to afford the ongoing upkeep of an old van that is my hobby and my pride and joy.
I work for a small company that like having me here as part of the team. It all feel a bit small and parochial after so many years of ambition and ego and plans to be super successful.
It takes a bit of getting used to, this life of little consequence, this being a nobody. It has distinct advantages though.