Lately since Jan 2021
I'd say it's gotta' be, Toby Kieth's "Courtesy of the Red white & blue"
Or
"As good as I once was"
RIP Toby you are missed...
HA! I was just thinking this. The last 12-20 months I have been doing a much more stressful, much less physical job and if it wasn;t for stuff I work on at home I would be a fat useless slob by now I think. Still, the stress and my age and I think that age thing is finally creeping in. But I certainly know I can't do things I did at 20 years old. Hell as far as running or biking etc. I can't do things I did when I was 15. But I could. If I needed to, once or twice.
I got into the work force about 3 years before the economy went to bunk last time.
Then things got better for like 3 years a bit more recently.
Then for the last couple years it went to bunk again.
Not much to do about it. Luck of being born at a certain point in time I guess. So I do what I can. What else is there to do?
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I "existed" through the last junk economy. Maybe I could have done things differently, but it would have meant leaving my parents high and dry and leaving siblings behind and a few other things. NUH-UH, that is not how I do things. So, I paid bills and "waited for it to get better". Kept learning my industry. Got raises by taking on more things, new positions.
This time around I don't want more things, more positions. I won't do it. I run the place I am at, I don;t want more and there likely isn't more where I am. But where I live, the bullseye of the nation as far as the economy, we are always 5 years behind the curve. I will not sit and wait this time, the above song rings true. My parents are gone, my siblings have spread out around this state, wife's folks are doing fine and have other family near to help when needed. Even if you don't like country music, listen to the lyrics carefully, there is a lot of truth in there.
