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If You’re So Successful, Why Are You Still Working 70 Hours a Week?

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Re: If You’re So Successful, Why Are You Still Working 70 Hours a Week?

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Post by asdff »

codingdave wrote: post #97
slownews45 wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interesting. A lot of the "so successful" have a TON of help. At the home front things are covered - stay at home wife, cleaners etc. You come home, home cooked meal, wife happy to hang out go on a walk do whatever, kids taken care of. You go to work, you have the parking spot, the assistant with a schedule. Strong managers. Again, these are the "so successful" folks. The 70 hours of work is mostly meetings, strategy…

> You come home, home cooked meal, wife happy to hang out go on a walk do whatever That also feels outdated. I don't know many people who are happy to sit at home, prepare meals for their absent spouse, and then smile and be happy to do whatever that spouse wants to do when they get home. That feels like an image from the 50s, not 2021.

Maybe OP should have said doordash instead of wife for it to be a 2021 example. It's kinda funny when you see homes of very wealthy people and see what they eat. Usually its their assistant bringing them a premade salad from sweetgreen for lunch and everything in the kitchen is used by a professional cook who makes meals and even packages leftovers rather than the homeowner.

Re: If You’re So Successful, Why Are You Still Working 70 Hours a Week?

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Post by lentil_soup »

neals wrote: post #38

Because I know what it means to work a 40hour shitty job. And I mean shitty. As in fill paint cans and inhale paint fumes all week shitty. I mean crawl into a conveyor belt that's stuck, use a torch to heat it up and a sledgehammer to straighten it shitty. That I'm now able to what I do and earn what I earn, to me, is like a miracle and I enjoy every minute of it.

Ok, but it's also possible to have a non-shitty 40hour job

Re: If You’re So Successful, Why Are You Still Working 70 Hours a Week?

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Post by kyleblarson »

justinator wrote: post #39
whytaka wrote: post #32

Because 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 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.

People say money can't buy happiness, but it can buy a jet ski. Have you ever seen an unhappy person on a jet ski?

Re: If You’re So Successful, Why Are You Still Working 70 Hours a Week?

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Post by asdff »

GDC7 wrote: post #22

The only true answer is that out there are 8 billion people waking up every day. And all they do is seeking social relevance, and by doing so they are inadvertedly diluting your own social relevance. There is not a mechanism which allows you to stop working and freeze your social relevance in place as some sort of videogame checkpoint type manner. You stop working and your relevance is eroded away...hell you could ke…

>There is not a mechanism which allows you to stop working and freeze your social relevance in place as some sort of videogame checkpoint type manner.

This is called retirement

Re: If You’re So Successful, Why Are You Still Working 70 Hours a Week?

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Post by samjett »

FractalHQ wrote: post #138
JTbane wrote: post #129

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>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?

I wonder what the EV RV industry is looking like..

Near nonexistent. Battery size requirements and battery charging rates make EV RVS either really expensive and really impractical for distance travel. You would need to put a huge battery (say, 300 KwH, which would cost $60,000 just for the battery), to get a reasonable range of 200-300 miles between charges, depending upon the efficiency of your RV. And then, even at a level 3 DCFC Charging station (providing 50 KW) you're looking at 6 hrs of charging to fully charge the battery.

Re: If You’re So Successful, Why Are You Still Working 70 Hours a Week?

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Post by brailsafe »

asdff wrote: post #142
whytaka wrote: post #32

Because 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.

Or just do it to do it. Doesn't need to be a progress thing.

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Post by mywittyname »

asdff wrote: post #144
JTbane wrote: post #129

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>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.

The country is already at the point where a single natural disaster can cause regional short-term fuel shortages and price spikes because refineries are located in geographies susceptible to natural disasters.

It is not unreasonable to work under the assumption that temporary petrol shortages become a annual or semi-annual event in a future where the gulf coast is hammered with ever more frequent and powerful hurricanes.

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Post by stingraycharles »

shukantpal wrote: post #51
lr4444lr wrote: post #44

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It's debatable then whether you're really successful, no?

No it’s not debatable. They’re living a satisfying life.

Of course it’s debatable. What’s not debatable is that the grandparent perceives it as a satisfying, fulfilling life right now.

What constitutes a satisfying life is an incredibly gray area, and for me, as I get older, I keep having to re-calibrate myself and realize life is short, even more so if you don’t know how to use it.

Re: If You’re So Successful, Why Are You Still Working 70 Hours a Week?

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Post by saiojd »

golergka wrote: post #139
Salgat wrote: post #88

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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 can't believe you are being downvoted on this website of all places. Meaningless jobs are crap, and shouldn't be celebrated at all. I'm sorry but deciding that all work is pointless, just because that's what your work is like, is plain and simple coping.
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