Hey Gals,
Good luck with your decisions to accept other positions. I'm sure it's difficult to leave your parents that are in need at this time of their lives. I chose trucking and haven't regretted it. My parents both turned 70 lately, but are in good health and are wealthy so can afford any care they'll need.
I'm not talking to my parents at present because they vehemently disagree with me trucking. It's too bad that they don't see that their only daughter and oldest child is happy for the first time in decades. All they see is that I gave up a huge custom built home with a wealthy husband and went trucking. They didn't live the horrible marriage I lived. I always respect people who actually get along with their parents and are looking out for them. So good luck gals.
I wish my parents would realize that it isn't shameful that their daughter chose to be a trucker over being an accountant with a wealthy husband. MONEY TRULY DOESN'T BUY HAPPINESS. I know everyone who hasn't had it thinks it does. All is does is make it easier to pay bills. You don't have to rob from Peter to pay Paul. That's all it did for me.
I had a loveless marriage that was over years before it ended. He was a workaholic and didn't appreciate me until I was gone. He remarried within two years. I couldn't believe it. No, he wasn't "fooling around" as everyone has asked me. He met Wife #2 from mutual friends in Europe. Obviously, couldn't be screwing around when we lived in Misery [Oops, did I say that outloud?-Missouri]. I asked him why he got remarried so soon and he said, "because it was the worst two years of his life."'
I realized right then and there that it was the best two years of my life so I knew the divorce was great for me. He didn't even know how to get to FedEx in a 14,000 population town after 13 years because his wife always went to FedEx for him. He had never done a load of laundry by age 47. How's that for spoiling an ungrateful husband? Boy, have I learned.
If I ever get married again it will be to someone who is my equal. I don't want another man I have to mother. No Thanks.
Oops got off on a tangent. Good luck gals. It's the best decision I ever made for myself. I love it. Hate my company and will be changing within the next month. But love trucking. :roll: 8)