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For the life of me I can't figure out why you're taking everything so personally to the point you have to sling insults at me and use a condescending tone. It's not that it bothers me, more that it baffles me.

You can define success, and the achievement of it, any way you like, as can I. You decided to travel far and wide to gain financial success. I decided to figure out a way to do it close to home so that I could participate in my family's life on a daily basis. To me, that was very much a part of the definition. Could I have made more money if I had made the choices you did? Maybe. I wasn't willing to risk the downside of that by skimping on the other responsibilities I had to my family. The result is grown children who are educated, well adjusted, self sufficient, caring, loving, contributing members to society. I also have a very happy marriage to a man I fall in love with more and more every day. Oh yeah, and my net worth is just fine, I assure you, but that's just icing on the cake. I'm not sure I could have achieved all that and met my definition of success by traveling 6 weeks at a time. Maybe you were able to; maybe it wasn't part of your definition; maybe family wasn't even a factor for you.

Just because someone isn't living up to your definition of success doesn't mean they're living a life of mediocrity, as you said I was.

I can list all the jobs I've held since I was 12 and every day since if you like(yes, I too, worked my way through college) but I really don't see the point of it.

I'm sure Chattanooga is lovely but I don't need to go there to see what success looks like. I'm fortunate to see what it looks like right where I am.