Hi folks, Jack Spirko here. Today you are listening to an episode of TSP Rewind.

Commercial free versions of past episodes podcast blast from the past. I put these up when I can't do a show due to professional commitments or rare vacations.

These podcasts will appear in standard iTunes, Stitcher, and other feeds, but will be titled TSP Rewind episodes and numbered accordingly.

And today we're rewinding back to April 15th 2015. This was originally episode 1557. It was called the responsibility of being prepared.

One of the reasons I began the survival podcast in 2008 and focused on preparedness and then all these

spokes of the wheel that is lifestyle design coming off of preparedness. So we'll talk about entrepreneurship.

That's generally not what you hear about on a survival list website, right? But that's because stability and income and stability and purpose in life

leads to a more stable life and preparedness is about stabilizing your existence so that disasters or inconveniences versus disasters.

So that's one spoke in the wheel, so to say. But I started with preparedness. And I'll be honest, there's a couple of reasons I did it.

One was it was 2008 and I looked at the landscape and said, yeah, preparedness is about to explode.

But some of the things that are coming, people are going to really be looking into this and I've always been a prepper.

So it was a natural place to start. But the other reason is because I was like, I understand what I'm actually going to be doing with this show.

More than anything else, this is going to be my ability to do the one thing that I always wanted to do in my life,

but I had not yet figured out how to do and actually make a sufficient income to dedicate my life to it. And that is teaching.

I really did want to be a teacher at different points in my life. I thought about it in various different ways.

I thought about just going to college and getting a degree in teaching and specifically teaching foreign language and specifically Spanish.

I really thought there would be a lot of ways that I could reach young people with that and it would have a lot of, you know, upside on as far as lifestyle it would have you.

But I realized like all I ever heard about teachers is their heroes of don't work capes and they don't make a lot of money and I don't want to do that.

And when I really looked at it, I said, well, you know, but it would if you're the best at it.

And it turned out that that didn't really matter that you were going to get paid about the same as everybody else. So I decided that wasn't for me.

And then all through my time in marketing and sales, I loved when I got a chance to teach when I would go do a presentation in front of, you know, 500 contractors on how cabling worked and how testing cabling worked.

And I would sit up there at the front of the room and I would talk and I would watch people that have been in cabling for 10 years.

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