Cynthetiq

I'm of the opinion that your lifestyle is dictated directly by your career choice.

my mother in law is a direct example. She's an artist true and true. She makes less that I pay in taxes every year. She lives off of government subsidies and lives a very menial lifestyle. That works for her. She's happy like that.

For me, I can't live like that. I can't live worrying about where the paycheck is going to come from 6 months from now.

We also like to do things in our personal time that that considerable amounts of disposable income. This year, we will be travelling to Iceland and Sedona, AZ as our vacation trips, (we've already done LA) and then there's still other little weekend jaunts like our trips to Atlantic City, Lenox, MA and a few other's we've got planned.

Next year, we're already planned to go to Madrid or Barcelona and the Gran Canaria Island.

2006 looks like we're going to the Pacific, Hawaii, or as far as Malaysia or Thailand.

We want to live as travellers, but cannot live that bohemian style, so we've found that for us, while the jobs aren't our "dream jobs" they do allow us to in our free time, have our dreams.

That said, here's what helped me figure out who I am and how I'm going to live my life

http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/showthr...verning+values (which came about from reading 7 Habit of Highly Effective People.)

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