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The Ramsey Show Highlights

How Do I Enter the Workforce Again After 20 Years?

The Ramsey Show Highlights

Ramsey Network

Self-improvement, Education, Investing, Business

4.6682 Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2022

⏱️ 5 minutes

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The Ramsey Call of the Day is a quick, daily dose of advice on life and money in under ten minutes. Hear from experts like Dave Ramsey, Ken Coleman, Rachel Cruze, Christy Wright, Dr. John Delony, and George Kamel. Part of the Ramsey Network. Delivered to you five days a week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

this is the ramsie call of the day part of the ramsay network

0:09.2

joining me today is ramsay personality ken coleman tracy's in north carolina hi tracy welcome to the ramsie

0:19.1

show hey guys how's it going? Great. What's up?

0:24.2

Well, I feel like y'all are brothers. I've been listening to you for over 20 years since

0:27.8

that free Friday. Wow, back in the day. Yes, and my baby's now 21. So, and I just bought your

0:36.2

book today. So I'm so, so excited cool um so you did so anyway um

0:41.5

you're welcome i have a kind of a bitter sweet um question a good dilemma bad dilemma sort of um i'm

0:49.8

51 years old and i am in baby step seven, however, it's consequently because of a divorce.

0:57.0

It was amicable. We did not use a lawyer. I was happy with what I got. He was happy with

1:03.0

what he got. But what I did was I took my portion and with that I bought a $300,000 paid for home.

1:14.2

And I also put my emergency fund in place of $20,000.

1:18.5

And I do have $300,000 in my 401K.

1:23.3

And so that's kind of the sweet part.

1:28.5

I paid a lot of taxes, but because I had been to stay-at-home mom for 21 years, I do have an education degree.

1:35.9

I now find myself set up with no debt, no payments for the rest of my life, but I'm starting all over again in my career, and I'm scared,

1:46.3

and I'm happy and sad, and I can't do my happy little debt free screen because I didn't

1:51.3

really do it that way. And so I'm just, I'm just here I am a baby step seven, and I'm like,

1:55.5

I don't even have an encore career because I really never had a career. Hey, it's not art. It's math.

2:03.1

I don't care if it's ugly.

2:03.8

You're dead free.

2:06.3

I'm sorry how you got there too, but you're still there.

2:06.7

Yeah.

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