We are completely different. I HATE structure. Most of my life I have worked on call. Phone call, some electric power plant, Chemical plant, paper mill, etc, etc, is down and can you come now. It may be in some other state hundreds of miles away. The job may be from one day, one week, 10 weeks, 6 months, etc. I have lived most of my life with a suitcase ready to go. I have never been on a job that finished that I wasn't ready for the next one. Sometimes I would get home and walk in the door and the phone starts ringing for another break down in some other state. Then sometimes there could be 2 or 3 weeks before the phone call.
Paid very good. Most people like me had a side business or job that when the phone rings, they can walk away from. I had a side business of selling VW's only cars and that grew into rebuilding VW only engines. The engine side of the business got so busy I had to stop to get more than 5 hrs of sleep.
Also building a house when at home works out great. Buy a lot , hire the foundation done and get it under roof in about 10 days by myself and then finish it between jobs while at home. Since my income varied a lot, we always lived on a budget. In the summer between the call out jobs, we always owned a camper , we would load the camper up and travel around for 2 or 3 weeks ( Always OSH). I have owed an airplane most of the time , when the 3 kids got older the wife and I would do a lot of traveling with the airplane in the summers between call out jobs. I love no structure and take it as it comes. Then at one time when I worked for VW of America, I had to work 12 hrs a day , 7 days a week. I did that for almost 8 years. Paid very good, but I started to quit several times. I liked the job but hated the hours with no time off except for the vacation time. I could always go back to being on call.
Old friend of mine is like you, he needs structure and a schedule. He worked in a plant for 35 years doing the same thing every day, driving the same road to work, parked in the same spot, worked with the same people, etc, etc, etc. That would be like a jail sentence to me. I would go crazy. I hate to even think about it. He loved it.
We all are different.
Also my wife and I home schooled the 3 children more than the public school. They were always a couple years ahead of the school classes. Youngest son was doing 12 grade classes at home at 12 years old. Older 2 about 2 years ahead. That takes up most all of the evenings. Almost no TV. TV broke one time and we never replace it for years. That is a good waste of time.
