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Businessman's Business- PDV Challenge |
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Kethry Member Rara Avis
since 2000-07-29
Posts 9082Victoria Australia 
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A happy man, am I well content with my life after work I go home to my docile, happy kids and wife. Conservative my clothing no sweats and jeans for me I am a man who's proud of well earned prosperity My private education helps me to move along and when I run my business I do it with pure calm In my time of leisure I use the gym and spa and golfing is my pleasure more so when I reach the bar I'm a man of logic a man in full command when my lovely yells and screams I don't understand Oh my life is good and fine it's full of wit and fire the only thing I'm scared of is the day that I retire. Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. Gail Sheehy |
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inot2B Member Elite
since 2000-09-18
Posts 2205Arkansas |
You're scared! Think of the wife, her peaceful routine will be ruined. |
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Wilfred Yeats Member Elite
since 2000-08-04
Posts 2704Wilmington, Delaware |
LOL - Let me echo inot2b - concur completely |
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Marsha
since 2000-07-10
Posts 7423Maidstone Kent England |
Kethry, this is amazing, sounds just like some consultants I know. I love this it's so well written, and it's just wonderful. Take care Mushy Marsha Take back the hope you gave,- I claim Only a memory of the same Robert Browning |
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Ron K. Fox Senior Member
since 2000-10-24
Posts 925 |
kethry, i had friends like this...thier job was thier life and social status was so important. They neglected thier private lives. In the end they were not very happy when they lost their girls/wives. Priorities just weren't in the right order. that need to succeed overrides it all. Tossing words like wishful coins into the deep well of an open heart. R. fox |
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Aimster Member Elite
since 2000-02-19
Posts 4297Charlotte, NC |
Lynn-- you been talking to my Dad or something?? LOL haha. This was a great poem! You have penned it very well. I'd say challenge was more than met! Take care. ~Amy~  |
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Kethry Member Rara Avis
since 2000-07-29
Posts 9082Victoria Australia |
Thanks everyone, I had some good role models for this piece. Be well Kethry Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. Gail Sheehy |
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Victoria
since 2000-08-12
Posts 5869 |
Good one kethry People are lucky if they reach retirement age..most people i know are getting downsized at fifty..and then have to threaten to sue in order to get a decent severance pay..being replaced by people half their age with half the experience and being paid half as much..very sad.. ~Victoria~ A poem is never finished, only abandoned. - Paul Valery (1871-1945) |
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Kethry Member Rara Avis
since 2000-07-29
Posts 9082Victoria Australia |
Victoria, you're right and it's a sad world when a man invests so much into his workplace and then finds out he is not wanted, and too young to retire. BTW thanks for replying. Be well Kethry Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. Gail Sheehy |
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CocoBaci Member Elite
since 2000-05-06
Posts 3043 |
Kethry, you did well on this write my friend, I really enjoyed the read and you had me with a giggle at end Coco |
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peppermint35 Senior Member
since 2000-05-28
Posts 1106Texas, USA |
You have painted a picture very familiar to what some poor guys' lives are like, excellent work!!! Pepper "I honor the place in you, that when you are in that place, and I am in that place in me, we are in the same place" Ram Dass |
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ethome Member Patricius
since 2000-05-14
Posts 11858New Brunswick Canada |
Don't think you're kidding me...I've always known that you girls know us better than we know ourselves....like the song says "You hung around kept my feet on the ground when I acted as proud as a fool we were kids now we've grown got kids of our own got to raise by the old golden rule." (Valdy) Good work you hit the nail right on the head.... I loved it!! |
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