Conversations in the Car
A snippet into an 8 year old brain:
Gage-”I think I know what I want to be when I grow up.”
Me- “Really? What’s that?”
Gage- “A carpenter. I’m gonna buy a shop like that one (pointing to a business) on a street like this and have an apartment up above. I’ll sell the stuff that I make in my shop. I’ll make tables and stuff like that. Mom, could I make much money doing something like that?”
Me- “Yeah, Gage, I think you could. I think you’d be good at that. You should do something that you enjoy and figure out how to make money doing it.”
Gage- “If I did that, would I have to give the money I make to the government?”
Me- (stifling laughter) “Well, you’d be self-employed, so yeah, you’d have to pay taxes.”
Gage- “What does employed mean?”
Me- “It means that you have a job and self-employed means that you work for yourself. You are your own boss.”
Gage- “Yeah, I think that’s what I want to do.”
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sounds like something he’d say
Too funny! Your stories about Gage always make me smile (even when you’re about to wring his neck!)…he is such a “thinker”. I’m beginning to feel like Jacob is going to be that way, too! He looks at life SOOO differently!
I love it! I even made Matt read it. He said you should put it away in a book!
Miss you guys (and those sweet conversations). See you soon!
Love,
Emily
hE IS HILARIOUS. i CANT WAIT TO SEE YOU GUYS! i AM GOING TO KISS HIS CHEEKS.
Hey, who wouldn’t want to be their own boss? But I am with Gage, I would love to just sit around and carve up some wood with lots of varied power tools and create and sell…it’s the “for a living” part that keeps creating problems for me…
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