What's real life like for everyone? What do you do day to day? Any hobbies or interest? My own life doesn't revolve around the market. It can't. Other commitments take precedent. You can't let the baby slide into the bathwater, face down, because you have to look at your RobinHood app. I forage for food. A challenge, since I live in The City. Surrounded on 3 sides by water, there's plenty of fish, eel, bat ray, shell fish...... I set crab traps. Just like stocks, I check whenever and I am pleasantly surprised by the yield. Along freeways and offramps, I harvest wild onion, garlic, beans, fennel, mustard..... Always a surprise. A short ride away, outside of City Limits, I get rabbit, boar, turkey, venison....... okay, not because I can't buy food from Costco. I enjoy it. What I would rather do, is live like The Wolf of Wall Street.
That's kind of why I started the thread. We don't have the same priorities in life. It would be interesting to hear about what the real world is like for everyone else. I won't name any names, but a member of the forum has a poster of Olivia Newton John. I have a collection of Pendleton shirts.
I’m a camera assistant and most of my work is in Hollywood, or was. So while I wait for it to come back, I’m learning how to play the banjo. My garden is the best it’s ever been due to regular attention from me because I’m actually home. I don’t live in HWD or So Cal for that matter. I talked my brother into buying a motorcycle and we’ve taken a few trips. My wife and I have been binging “Outlander” and recently started “Downton Abbey”. Damn good actors, writing and photography! A couple shows I worked on were Californication and Masters of Sex. Apologies for name dropping. Cheers
In real life, I'm working like an idiot to transition out of our real estate business. It's an easy business to get into and to scale up but a difficult business to exit. Nobody ever talks about what happens when you want to retire. Suitors want buildings full of tenants, a vacant property, or whatever, and it's not always easy to provide. It can take over a year to get there, trying to find residence for people, etc. There are local tenancy laws and also loyalties to some tenants who have been with us for most of our ownership. In the case of commercial, there are tenancy contracts that cannot be broken, even with the sale of a building. In these cases, we have to find someone looking to be a commercial landlord, not a company looking to buy a building for their own use. It probably doesn't sound like much work but it's work to make it all happen, keep people reasonably happy, and meet all legal obligations. Some of it is hard physical work but I'm glad for it. I like to get physical, as A55 could have guessed. If I was staring at my screens all day, I probably wouldn't find much meaning in life.
To go a bit further, This is a very strange time for me. My wife would like to retire, move to a condo, and do nothing. That's the last thing I want. I'd go as far as to say it scares me. Exploring the country on a motorcycle does sound appealing, though. The next time A55 and I hang out, perhaps we can step out on the town and get some crabs.
be sure you're up to date on all your shots. not gonna touch the crabs comment. that would be too easy.
We are not given a good life or a bad life. We are given a life. It's up to us to make it good or bad.
Most of my life is my work. This is normal)) My wife works with me, so we almost never part with her. I'm lucky) I don't have a lot of free time right now and I divide it into working with wood in my garage and studying astrology, numerology, and other similar things. It constantly gives me something new so I feel like my life is eventful (even during quarantine restrictions)