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A chat on subreddit /r/PoliticalCompassMemes
human
yeah no doubt. I just want to put in my time and go home. don't need work being my life
gpt
&gt; don't need work being my life

That's a bingo!

I know guys who run their own businesses. The issue a lot of lefties have is they never see the bad times. They only see the good, and they're only looking at megacorps and imagining all business owners are Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos. Not Apu Nahasapeemapetilon who owns one store, or maybe even a couple local shops.

They don't see the stress it takes when you have a couple consecutive bad months, or a recession, and you have to worry if your business will survive the next year. They don't see the month you didn't take a paycheck because then there would not be enough in the account to replenish inventory, or pay your overhead.

Yes business owners can make a lot more money, but it comes with a lot more stress. I know a guy at our gun club who runs a local machine shop. He does well enough, but every year he says the same thing [paraphrased]:

&gt; I keep asking myself is it worth it, and every year it gets harder and harder to say yes. I built this place, I put my heart and soul and sweat and tears into it, but I kind of want to sell it and walk away. Take the big paycheck and just not have to deal with it anymore.

And I can't blame him.