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Floyd Martin retires after nearly 35 years as a mailman tomorrow

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Re: Floyd Martin retires after nearly 35 years as a mailman tomorrow

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This is fucking beautiful. At the same time it makes me a little sad to work at a desk, hidden from all the people my work impacts. In a city and time where neighbors keep their heads down when they pass each other and all the mailpersons wear headphones.

Re: Floyd Martin retires after nearly 35 years as a mailman tomorrow

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Stories like this make you question whether it's worth being paid all this money to spend your life staring at a screen in a climate-controlled cube solving abstract problems that provide approximately zero benefit to your family, friends, and neighbors.

Re: Floyd Martin retires after nearly 35 years as a mailman tomorrow

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Stories like this make you question whether it's worth being paid all this money to spend your life staring at a screen in a climate-controlled cube solving abstract problems that provide approximately zero benefit to your family, friends, and neighbors.

It's not and you know it.

But yet here we are.

Re: Floyd Martin retires after nearly 35 years as a mailman tomorrow

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Stories like this make you question whether it's worth being paid all this money to spend your life staring at a screen in a climate-controlled cube solving abstract problems that provide approximately zero benefit to your family, friends, and neighbors.

Agreed. Sometimes I feel like I am wasting my life solving business problems I don’t really care about and nobody close to me understands even remotely.

Re: Floyd Martin retires after nearly 35 years as a mailman tomorrow

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post #4

Stories like this make you question whether it's worth being paid all this money to spend your life staring at a screen in a climate-controlled cube solving abstract problems that provide approximately zero benefit to your family, friends, and neighbors.

It's not and you know it. But yet here we are.

Everyone finds their freedom when they're ready to.

Re: Floyd Martin retires after nearly 35 years as a mailman tomorrow

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Stories like this make you question whether it's worth being paid all this money to spend your life staring at a screen in a climate-controlled cube solving abstract problems that provide approximately zero benefit to your family, friends, and neighbors.

Lol, you sheltered idiots are unreal

Re: Floyd Martin retires after nearly 35 years as a mailman tomorrow

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Stories like this make you question whether it's worth being paid all this money to spend your life staring at a screen in a climate-controlled cube solving abstract problems that provide approximately zero benefit to your family, friends, and neighbors.

It's realizations like this that drove me to working from home 10 years ago.

I get to do the geeky work I love, eat lunch with my wife and kids, and my commute is a flight of stairs.

I don't think I could ever go back into an office.

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