I quit my job a month ago exactly, and moved back to the small town I came from. My friends and the community has rallied to get me back to myself again. I am an electrician by trade and for those of you that don’t know the trade, we are exposed to everything. rude customers people who don’t pay. Mother Nature, the extreme hot and cold weather. And a lot of us don’t get benefits. We aren’t provided health insurance. No work gear to bare the hot and cold. No boots no sweat shirts no rain jackets. We aren’t supplied tools. All of that comes out of our pockets. Because of this It’s been really hard to ever want to go back. Over 15 years I’ve learned the skill, I’ve paid my dues but with no one wanting to join the electrical community, because of what I stated above. I will always be the grunt and I won’t become the teacher. The last month I’ve just been doing little jobs for my friends and the people they refer to me. I’ve never been happier. I wake up when I want, I have a healthy schedule, I save them money by just charging what I need to pay my bills or enough money to feed myself that day or I trade my time for something they have that I need to survive. I know that this isn’t going to last forever, but how did we get so far from this business model? I don’t need much money to survive here. But as soon as the government finds out what I’ve been doing I know it will get shut down because they didn’t get their cut. How do I make this work? With a mechanical background, I can accomplish fixing anything. But the way I see it no big companies or the government have ever had my back like this small community and my friends have given me. It’s driving my parents insane that I don’t work 40 hours a week, that I don’t invest, that I don’t have health insurance but in my mind I don’t think about that stuff. I have my sanity back. Any thoughts?