Reply to "letter from "the boss""

I am now and have always been an employee. Mainly because I never felt the drive needed to run my own business. In my opinion people who start businesses that thrive do so because they feel a need to do so. The business becomes their identity. The people who do it JUST for the money usually fail. Your business IS who you are. My uncle was a business owner. He worked six days a week, sixteen hour days his whole life. He almost never even took a vacation. He was also a very happy man who never wanted to be anything other than what he was. He died in his eighties but he never did "retire". He also left his children many millions of dollars and a thriving business.
I never wanted that. I like who I am. A miserable crumudgeon.