Dream Life in BookThree: Flight Log 2016

If you’re unhappy… if you don’t like where you are… where would you rather be?

Two Scenarios present themselves. Obviously, one is preferable to the other. And… humorously, the one I prefer is listed here as second.

(1) Successful lawyer and businessman. Prosecuting crime for 60 hours a week and semi-managing the nightclub/coffee shop that I own. Spending what little free time I have dividing my attention between friends, family, and a swarm of beautiful women more interested in my money than in me as a person.

(2) Working attorney. Earning a decent enough living working 40 to 60 hours a week. Living in a fairly sizable five bedroom home with a nice large yard for the dogs. Spending every evening sitting down to dinner with my wife and kids; weekend hours divided between friends and family.

And that’s the humor; at least for me. I want either enough money to buy a house, stay in relative comfort with spending money for vacations, movies, and fun with a strong functional family OR I want more money than I know what to do with while being too exhausted working to enjoy it.

I see it rather like a decision between:

OR

Meanwhile, family and wealth are more: