SOLD!

I sold my computer services business. I was not really interested in selling the thing, as I have spent 17 years growing it up. I sold it for six years of gross receipts plus a 5-year non-competition compensation package. That's fair market value. The negotiations seemingly took forever--or six months of heightened angst.

I should be celebrating, but I am cerebrating in its stead. What the 'ell am I going to do now?

I am not ready to retire. I do not want to simply do charitable work, either. My home needs attention, so that will take up a few months of time.

My EE degrees are not of much value as my skillsets are a couple of decades from current technologies. I could go to work as a coder or a networker, but I love my freedom. With the sale, wages are not to be an issue. The one IT company that I have conveyed the sale to is trying to get an inkling as to what I would need for a compensation package to work on their team, but it is an actual commute with crappy hours...so "a lot" is where I am with that proposal. I love working there on site but they too have just been swallowed up by a much larger enterprise, so whether or not the new ownership retains the culture that is currently in place. At any rate, I am taking enough time off between official responsibilities to fix up my home and tend my gardens.

I now have at least some notion as to how a parent must feel when a child leaves the nest. Yes, the money is great, but my child has left.