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your why? What's pushing you forward? Freedom. In my 20s, when I had that service business,

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I was working like 60, 70 hours a week and it was around age 29, age 30. After that merger happened,

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I'm like, I cannot do this anymore. I have to work smarter, not harder. So my driver is financial

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freedom. Fortunately, it was a year ago. I'm just over 40 now. I'm 41 and it was at age 40. I was

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able to go full time with Ticker. I bootstrapped it for three years. So kept the day job. Since

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that merger, I'll keep this quick, I did a lot of corporate contract and project management for a

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lot of big companies and that was great experience. But I'm like, I don't want to work in big business.

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I don't want to work in corporate America. I want to create my own schedule. So I get to wake up and

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do whatever I want every day. I love serving my customers. I love building Ticker. During the

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summer, I take Fridays off. I do not work Fridays. I actually play golf or I should phrase that. I

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try to play golf, but my wife and I, we enjoy work life balance to the nth degree. Life is about

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living, not working. So that's, that's my wife.