I had already served an apprenticeship program with my life, I had already earned it. And here this guy was talking to me like I was a nothing, a nobody. I decided right there that I wasn't going to work for someone else anymore. All the while, Mr. Gessay had been investing in the stock market and in real estate, so he wasn't hurting for money. And he skis and travels without guilt.
Work is all about the results.
But now she also has the flexibility to spend more time with her husband and two young children. Donna Collins, meanwhile, is still waiting for that certainty to kick in. She could have stayed and taken her chances in the pending layoffs, hoping enough others took the buyout to spare her job. But the climate had changed, she says, and it just didn't feel like the same company anymore. N.Y. She and her husband, Charlie, who quit his job as a truck driver to help with the business, used their retirement savings to outfit the place.