I doubt I'll triple my income. Frankly I'm kind of done with the IT jobs. I don't have the stomach for office politics. For a tech perspective, the technology changes so quickly....enough I'm not sure I can keep up. Too many cheap indian programmers out there. See your comment about cheap cheap cheap. We'll see how this round goes. If I can adapt to this new job, I'll probably work the contractor circuit. For a while anyway. Then I buy a class C and carry my home like a turtle going back to my stick home between jobs. Then the worry becomes how to find places to live for 3-6 months at a time..
Search this forum. You'll find me railing against harbor freight and Walmart. The on thing I buy from HF is tools I know are junk...screwdrivers/wrenches I'll be throwing in the car so I don't have to carry my quality stuff or when I am backed into a corner with no escape....for example, Walmart when camping in a town where the nearest alternative is 20 miles away.
My jeans are made in America (
http://www.allamericanclothing.com) as well as my new balance shoes...and I didn't even pay a premium for them. It's sickening that people in general who love Walmart so much are the very same ons who are hurt because their textile factory closed year ago...Walmart is nothing but a parasite...a blood sucker. Taking the very life blood from small towns and even a few big ones.
It's a shame ... I see the new paradigm. I see how destructive it is to families. The stability of a job or career is gone. My dad worked on the same factory floor doing a number of jobs for 25 years. He only left that when he realized the strikes and union tactics were really only helping the union...not the laborers. That was in the mid 80s, and it hasn't gotten better even for a minute.
Life is about change....no one has it easy, then or now. But is sad to see the American Dream dying....democracies/republics I fear have just grown tired and lazy...maybe Ayne Rand was right. Who is John Galt.