Okay, then I also apologize for the sponge comment.
One other thing of note here is that Juice already has 3 kids. That’s a bit different than having 2 kids, it’s a LOT different than having only 1 kid, and it’s another planet away from having no kids. Strangely enough, I think I was 29 when my wife had our 3rd child, so that makes about 5 parallels between his situation and mine way back when.
By the time I got to 3 kids my own personal goals became very secondary to my responsibilities as a parent. A kid isn’t like some video game that I could just pull off the shelf when I had time to play with it. They are a huge responsibility and I felt I had to work around their needs to some extent, not work them around my needs.
That didn’t stop me from pursuing a career change but it did influence the direction I went as well as the means I used to get there. True story.
