Many decide stress, sacrifices just not worth it
By DAVE CARPENTER
Associated Press
CHICAGO - The epiphany for Trudy Bourgeois came in the form
of a stinging rebuke from her daughter during a weekend when,
as always, she was preoccupied with her job.
"Mommy, I don't want to be like you when I grow up," the frustrated
sixth-grader told the shocked executive. "All you do is work, work,
work, and you're always stressed."
Bourgeois' career and life turned for the better on that painful
moment — she resigned her high-level position to run a business
out of her Dallas-area home. So did John Gates' life when he left
a corner office for a farm and tractor, and Jim Modica's life when
he turned his back on Madison Avenue to open a pet boutique.
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/business/3268791
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