Dan Caplinger

I had no interest in that.

And so, you know, you can kind of draw your own conclusions from that.

But I think that's the most important thing is talking to people, both the people that are around you now

And the people who are doing the things that you might want to do some period of time down the road so that you get an advanced view of what that life looks like.

And you can kind of make course corrections now to guide you towards the better parts of that and steer you away maybe from some of the pitfalls that they fell into.

Yeah.

And I'll tell you, bro, I kind of had a head start on you on this because unlike you, you're a full employee.

I'm a full independent contractor.

I work on a one year contract.

And I'll tell you, I took that seriously from day one.

It was kind of like everybody would tell you, oh, don't worry, they'll renew you.

They'll renew you.

But lawyer brain in me was like, hey, this is a one year contract.

End of that year.

Like anything goes.

And so I always kind of planned it that way so that if something did happen, that I'd be ready.

And as the years have gone by, I kind of laugh at myself every time I have that thought because it's like, you know, well, really?

But just like you point out, bro.

there are real threats to what we do.

And our industry is changing quite a bit.