chosen this lifestyle because we know the only REAL security we have is the security we create for ourselves. We have both been victims of corporate downsizing and had others determine our destiny. I was told, after moving my family 1,100 miles to a new state that the job I was promised once we got there wasn’t going to be there for me after all. Oh, sure, I could have kept the job I had and moved my family back at my own expense, but that really wasn’t a choice I was willing to consider. So instead, we decided to start our own business. We chose publishing because my entire career has been spent in advertising sales, management and publishing. I really don’t know how to do anything else, nor do I want to. I am blessed that I get paid to do something I love doing each and every day. And better still, I get to do it with my best friend in the entire world, my wife Sherry. And, at the end of each day, when I sit back, exhausted, I have the satisfaction of knowing that all the hard work I have done has been for me and my family not some thankless corporation that has the audacity to pay their CEO $35 million a year. I believe in the free enterprise system, but no one is worth $35 million per year, especially at the expense of the people that do the lion’s share of the work. I was just interrupted by a phone call. In my previous life, I would have had a receptionist to answer the phone and a phone system that allowed me to indicate that I was busy so that all my calls would be routed to my voicemail. I suppose I could do that now, but I feel guilty letting the phone ring knowing I can and should answer it. After a twenty minute conversation with one of my favorite clients, I am back to
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writing and some of what I was hoping to convey is long gone because of the distraction. It is simple things like this that I once took for granted. “I think I can. I think I can.” Somehow, after six other attempts, I have managed to get to the end of this month’s dave 2.0 (beta). It may seem somewhat disjointed and the point may not be as obvious as other months, but my hopes are that you have taken something of value away from reading it. If nothing else, perhaps it has caused you to take a closer look at the path your life is on, consider a dream that you have all but forgotten, and say to yourself, “I think I can. I think I can.” For us, this is one more issue of Asheboro Magazine that is better than the last and once again I am telling myself, as The Little Engine That Could did…”I thought I could, I thought I could.”