haha, 70 hours. So cute!
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?
#162Because 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.
Let’s not deal in absolutes. Money can’t absolutely fix everything, but in case I need money I would rather have it then don’t.
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#163Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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.
What kind of work you could consider meaningful, but can't obtain? (honest question)
Re: If You’re So Successful, Why Are You Still Working 70 Hours a Week?
#164Because nothing else fulfills you.
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#165Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 hurrica…
Harvey was parked over Houston for several days, and I don't really remember fuel prices being affected that much. The bigger thing to worry about is something like the pipeline hack (which will assuredly happen again).
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#166Earlier 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. 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 us…
Indeed a recent family experience revealed that if you're in a town where you don't have a primary care doctor and you get sick, you're SOL. We ended up having to fly my relative back to his home town so he could be treated.
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#167Earlier quoted context omitted.
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)…
In this post-apocalyptic scenario I think the range would be secondary to using the battery for day-to-day living. The RV could have solar and keep the battery topped off all the time.
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#168Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Putting in long hours in your 20s and 30s to have a massive nest egg that will last you the rest of your life by your 40s seems like a good trade-off. Even amassing 7 figures by your late 20s/30s (very difficult to do reliably, also implies no debt, no adverse life events, etc.), is not remotely enough to make a "comfortable" living for the next ~5 decades of your life.
It is if you own a house mortgage-free. Dividend income on let’s say $1.5 million would be around $60,000/year. That’s pretty comfortable if your expenses don’t include shelter. That’s why my advice to young people is always to do what you have to in order to establish working credentials, then move somewhere cheap, buy a house and work remotely as much as you can. You’ll get it paid off in no time and that level of…
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Re: If You’re So Successful, Why Are You Still Working 70 Hours a Week?
#169Because I love what I do.
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#170Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is if you own a house mortgage-free. Dividend income on let’s say $1.5 million would be around $60,000/year. That’s pretty comfortable if your expenses don’t include shelter. That’s why my advice to young people is always to do what you have to in order to establish working credentials, then move somewhere cheap, buy a house and work remotely as much as you can. You’ll get it paid off in no time and that level of…
> On the downside, you’ll probably be living somewhere small and uncool and that may not be enough incentive to leave the bright lights of the city. This seems like social life suicide. I'm in my 30s, single, and omitted dating much in my 20s (because -- surprise surprise -- I was working way too much). I can't really move to the middle of nowhere where the dating pool is non-existent.
If you move there, then there will be at least one. Also, farmersonly.com (never thought I would see that Super Bowl commercial…)