I used to work in mineral exploration and mining and until 2015 I was well rewarded for my work with a very good salary. We had moved from the UK to Australia, we built our dream home and we enjoyed the trappings that came with earning a very good income.
Then, in 2015, I was laid off from my job, along with thousands of others in the same industry and finding a new job was impossible. Even Macdonalds wont touch geologists because they know we will leave the moment a role in our own sector comes up.
So, by last March, we had spent all our savings on paying the bills and tings and after being offered work back in the UK, we put the house on the market - which sold for $50K less than the mortgage - sold everything we had and found ourselves at the age of 46, me, wife and dog, at Heathrow with nothing but a suitcase each.
This is what I learned from that experience:
That material stuff is just that. Stuff. It isn't important and as long as you have someone that you love and loves you, the rest doesn't matter. In fact, I think we were more content than ever. Even when my wife offered to make us some soup one lunch time and we remembered we didn't own a spoon. We just found it incredibly funny
Submitted August 01, 2017 at 08:41AM by Verystormy http://ift.tt/2ufQLPs
