Hey, @alexvan.

I have changed for better, but riskier conditions from a highly secure job. I did it almost a little over 20 years ago when I left a secure job as a caseworker for the State of Oregon to owning my own business and publishing a weekly newspaper that had not been weekly in years.

It did not work out for two years, but then a partnership with another newspaper happened and everything took off after that. For 12 years things were great, even though the partnership split up two years. I continued to run two newspapers, through good times and bad. It was the best financial and employment move I ever made.

Until it wasn't. That was the risk. A change in laws essentially put our newspapers out of business with seven months. That was the risk. Would I do it all over again? Yes. But if I could do it over, I'd sell while we were at our highest point to a decent-sized media corporation like I intended to do and then start up something else. :)

Once the main necessities are taken care of, time is and always will be our greatest commodity. The opportunities I had to be with my boys growing up were priceless. I would never trade that. I didn't have to because I had the time and resources. The best of both worlds. :)