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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 kongin »

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 You come home, home cooked meal, wife happy to hang out go on a walk do whatever That also feels outdated.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.

You just pay a cook to do it for you.

If you're making mid six figures it's ultimately much cheaper than a spouse.

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

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Post by birksherty »

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.

Because just being able have a pleasant life is a big privilege and most people in the world won't have this ever.

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

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Post by cblconfederate »

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.

america seems to be very ahead economically -- many americans could retire in other parts of the world

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

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Post by stronglikedan »

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.

OP seems like they like their job. If you're doing what you like, whatever that may be, then you're not wasting anything.

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

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Post by echelon »

mywittyname wrote: post #177
dvt wrote: post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

Realistically though, 1.5MM brings in much more than $60k a year most of the time (an aggressive portfolio could return that much in a month, on occasion). So one could buy a place in a cool area with a cheap 30 year loan immediately before quitting. Live there for as long as you want, then sell it if you get the urge for a cheaper, less exciting lifestyle. Even if one overspends a little extra in those initial years…

> Realistically though, 1.5MM brings in much more than $60k a year most of the time.

How are you employing it?

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Post by walletburst »

cgh wrote: post #119
dvt wrote: post #61

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> 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…

If by "affordable" you mean $200 - $300k for a decent house, there are A LOT of places in the USA that are NOT small and uncool where you can buy an affordable house.

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

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Post by cblconfederate »

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…

some of the richest ppl in the world dont do that, i dont think they are socially irrelevant

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Post by WJW »

asdff wrote: post #146
iso1210 wrote: post #132

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Why would the military let some rando in a RV into their base?

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

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Post by asdff »

WJW wrote: post #188
asdff wrote: post #146

Earlier quoted context omitted.

RV is the perfect vehicle then for making your way to safety at the nearest operating military base.

Why would the military let some rando in a RV into their base?

Historically the U.S. military provides aid to refugees rather than shoot them at the gate so I'm banking on that when I roll up to camp pendelton in 2050
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