Because what I do in my so called "work" time is what I would do in my "free" time as well.
If You’re So Successful, Why Are You Still Working 70 Hours a Week?
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#142Because I'm not nearly as good at any hobbies as much as I'm good at my job and being good at something is what gives me day-to-day satisfaction. Having a high wage but not enough stored wealth to feel invincible against an increasingly uncertain future, I'm spending more time feeling good about work than finding and investing in a hobby that'll make me truly happy.
Having a mentality like this seems like it will crush you when you do finally retire. No one is good at a hobby from the get go, the point is to be bad and develop a talent over time.
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#143Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Having a high wage but not enough stored wealth to feel invincible against an increasingly uncertain future Hate to be the one to tell you this, but there is no guarantee on what the future may bring, money can't fix everything, and true security is a lie. Live your life in the here and now, before you regret wasting it.
Exactly. If society were to fall apart, the number in your bank account will matter very little, if it even exists anymore...
If money doesn't matter anymore then it's beans, bullets, and bandages.
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#144Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thats looking it through the last generations lens where stability = a geographical location to live with a house on it. Ironically, as climate change effects become more and more prominent, going with a RV route is looking more like the best possible option for the future, cause you can just pick up and leave when bad weather comes.
>going with a RV route is looking more like the best possible option for the future, cause you can just pick up and leave when bad weather comes what's the plan when fuel shortages start happening and your RV can't be kept rolling?
The U.S. would sooner stop fuel exports than let that happen. We produce more than we use.
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#145Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not really. Work is just a way to enrich your employer. I don't really find that all that fulfilling unless I was in an exceptional position, such as upper management in an R&D company developing revolutionary technology. But no, I'm a guy who develops insurance software for a wage. It's not bad, but it's not hard to find far more fulfilling things on my own time.
> Work is just a way to enrich your employer. That's an awful way to look at life. Work already occupies your most productive working hours, why wouldn't you try to make it the most interesting and fulfilling activity in your life?
I'm not saying what I'm doing is futile or pointless, I'm simply acknowledging the reality of how jobs work. I enrich the employer with the value I add in exchange for a wage. None of this should be romanticized or made into something it's not. It's just a job. What I do outside my job is far more rewarding and fulfilling because it's no longer primarily about making a wage to pay bills.
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#146Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thats looking it through the last generations lens where stability = a geographical location to live with a house on it. Ironically, as climate change effects become more and more prominent, going with a RV route is looking more like the best possible option for the future, cause you can just pick up and leave when bad weather comes.
If you have freedom of movement over a large area, if you don't have breakdown of law and order, if people don't start lynching others when they come into their area.
RV is the perfect vehicle then for making your way to safety at the nearest operating military base.
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#147I don’t, I work about 35, and right now I’m taking a three month hiatus. Always take time to see the bigger picture.
This is certainly good for you, but take a moment and reflect on how difficult this would be for 99% of working people in this world. Our need for labor should not be allowing us to harm the wellbeing of their laborers. You are clearly in a very privileged position, but it's not a position I can disagree with, only one that needs to be universal.
The 3 months hiatus sounds like a luxury for most yes, but 35 hours a week is standard in many developed country...
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#148Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not really. Work is just a way to enrich your employer. I don't really find that all that fulfilling unless I was in an exceptional position, such as upper management in an R&D company developing revolutionary technology. But no, I'm a guy who develops insurance software for a wage. It's not bad, but it's not hard to find far more fulfilling things on my own time.
> Work is just a way to enrich your employer. That's an awful way to look at life. Work already occupies your most productive working hours, why wouldn't you try to make it the most interesting and fulfilling activity in your life?
Not everyone has the privilege to land a job that is interesting or fulfilling. Some people just work until their back gives out.
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#149Earlier quoted context omitted.
True security is a lie, but "relatively comfortably secure for the foreseeable future" is not. These days, it takes a lot of assets to be confident you won't be homeless in old age assuming no major surprises or threats from society and the environment changing. I would say most younger people don't earn enough or have enough assets to reach that level of basic confidence. After all, if you've rented all your life so…
Thats looking it through the last generations lens where stability = a geographical location to live with a house on it. Ironically, as climate change effects become more and more prominent, going with a RV route is looking more like the best possible option for the future, cause you can just pick up and leave when bad weather comes.
> going with a RV route is looking more like the best possible option for the future, cause you can just pick up and leave when bad weather comes.
That's fine when young and healthy, but when you're older, have several recurring doctor appointments and some mild impairments, a home is a lot better.
Not saying it can't be done, after all there are nomad populations with elderly people who live on the road. But they usually have a support system that travels along, too.
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#150Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not really. Work is just a way to enrich your employer. I don't really find that all that fulfilling unless I was in an exceptional position, such as upper management in an R&D company developing revolutionary technology. But no, I'm a guy who develops insurance software for a wage. It's not bad, but it's not hard to find far more fulfilling things on my own time.
> Work is just a way to enrich your employer. That's an awful way to look at life. Work already occupies your most productive working hours, why wouldn't you try to make it the most interesting and fulfilling activity in your life?
> Work already occupies your most productive working hours
Unfortunately
> why wouldn't you try to make it the most interesting and fulfilling activity in your life?
I can’t. I’d do it if I could, but everything the appears fulfilling seems to end up being a scam or not obtainable or not worth obtaining for the pittance it would pay.