Last night, I had a midlife crisis. It happens quite a lot. One minute I'm cruising along and then....Wham! Midlife crisis. Sometimes it works out alright. Most of the times it solidifies my defeat. I hate Life sometimes.
I'm referring to the game Life. My wife and I played a game last night. We got it for our wedding and have enjoyed it over the years. Last night was quite absurd though. Towards the end (5 pay days left to be exact) is a square that requires you to change your career to a randomly selected one and draw a corresponding salary card. I had got though the game as a computer technician pulling down $70,000 a pay day. Then I was able to swap salary cards with Angel and was pulling down $90,000. Two pay days later - WHAM! midlife crisis and I have to switch everything.
So, what did this computer tech become? An entertainer - earning a hearty $20,000 a year. What's better is that in my next few turns I ended up paying $100,000 to Angel, plus another $45,000 to a computer tech guy (a sum I would not have had to pay if I hadn't changed jobs). In the end, my career change cost me $45,000 as I only earned $100,000 from when I changed careers to when I retired. What's more, when I "sold" my house, I ended losing $20,000 on it. Angel didn't even sell her house. She had more then me in cash then all of my assets combined.
She said this was the first time she ever felt guilty winning. As I mentioned at the beginning, it seams like I land on that midlife crisis all the time, but this time was defiantly the worst.
I'm referring to the game Life. My wife and I played a game last night. We got it for our wedding and have enjoyed it over the years. Last night was quite absurd though. Towards the end (5 pay days left to be exact) is a square that requires you to change your career to a randomly selected one and draw a corresponding salary card. I had got though the game as a computer technician pulling down $70,000 a pay day. Then I was able to swap salary cards with Angel and was pulling down $90,000. Two pay days later - WHAM! midlife crisis and I have to switch everything.
So, what did this computer tech become? An entertainer - earning a hearty $20,000 a year. What's better is that in my next few turns I ended up paying $100,000 to Angel, plus another $45,000 to a computer tech guy (a sum I would not have had to pay if I hadn't changed jobs). In the end, my career change cost me $45,000 as I only earned $100,000 from when I changed careers to when I retired. What's more, when I "sold" my house, I ended losing $20,000 on it. Angel didn't even sell her house. She had more then me in cash then all of my assets combined.
She said this was the first time she ever felt guilty winning. As I mentioned at the beginning, it seams like I land on that midlife crisis all the time, but this time was defiantly the worst.
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