Richard CanfieldPodcast Host and IBC Advisor, Ascendant Financial · Authorized Infinite Banking Practitioner | Author of 4 Books

I was Running from a Crazy Family so I just learned to Work

9 Sept 2024 · 1 min

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A man describes escaping a chaotic family by joining the military at 18, though he felt much younger. At 10, he made $2,000 shoveling snow during a 1976 blizzard, but strict household rules made work feel like punishment rather than opportunity.

Something about me told me I had.
To run and get away, that there.
Was nothing good was going to come.
Out of that and the military saved.
My life, it really did.
I went into that.
I was 18 years old and probably about a 14 year old maturity.
Level of course I.
Thought I was.
I jokingly said I.
I was 15, thought I was going.
On 30, you.
Know, so I had to figure stuff out on my own.
And I did.
You know, start line.
Figures, figure.
Out how to navigate that crazy family. We had a really bad snowstorm in 76 and we were out of school for about two weeks and I managed to make about $2,000 as a 10.
Year old shoveling snow and I learned.
That in my house.
Work was horrible.
So you better be at dinner every single night at five.
O' clock unless you're working. Well I'm running from a crazy family so I just learned to work and.
So anyways I got towards the end of high school and I knew that.
It was going to.
Go bad if I stayed.