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I automated my job over a year ago and haven't told anyone

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Post by padobson »

wombat-man wrote: post #12

This is like the dream. I feel like I would spend the time learning an instrument, or maybe do online learnings to maybe get another job I actually enjoyed doing. Can't even hate and hope things work out for that guy.

This is like the dream.

If eight hours a day of free time is the only thing separating you from your dream, then there must be SOME way to adjust the math of your life to get that for at least a period long enough to learn the instrument or train for a new job or both.

Reducing your monthly expenses by 1/12 means you could take a full month off and get a jump start on the training you want. You could also add overtime or a part time job and increase your income by 1/12 and then take two months off. Think of it like buying your freedom.

Re: I automated my job over a year ago and haven't told anyone

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Post by michaelbuckbee »

nlh wrote: post #26
binarytox1n wrote: post #7

Many subreddits are simply themed containers of creative writing. With all the media attention the AntiWork subreddit has gotten lately that brings more karma farmers and therefore more fiction. It's an entertaining read, but not likely true.

Funny, I had this exact same thought. The red flags for me were their use of “clock in” and “shift”. Those are not concepts generally in play for IT staff at law firms.

That actually rang fairly true to me as some of the law offices I interacted with (consultant) did so as they did some sort of fractional billing to the clients for internal IT time.

I actually wonder if that's not the bigger scam here, that the firm is re-billing this person's make-work job in some sort of time and materials way that there is financial incentive to keep him doing this unnecessary role.

Re: I automated my job over a year ago and haven't told anyone

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Post by mech987 »

pietrovismara wrote: post #42
Miner49er wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

HN really lives in a some sort of wealthy bubble. $90k is plenty of money to save for retirement in most of the country. If it's not, then the majority of people in the US will never be able to retire.

OP doesn't realize that 87% of the US population (being one of the richest in the world) makes less than $90k. That means that by his view 9 persons out of 10 won't be able to retire. Which I actually believe is true. The irony of admitting this while at the same time praising this system with statements like >Part (by no means all) of the growth one sees abroad is due to acceptance and often positive attitudes about…

Why is work just a means of transferring wealth upwards?

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Post by neom »

tamiral wrote: post #46
neom wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That is not how teams work. I recommend this book to learn more on how teams work: https://www.amazon.com/Wisdom-Teams-Creating-High-Performanc...

I have this book and haven't read it yet... but will start it! thanks for the reminder.

Extremely boring, but I recommend persisting to the end.

Re: I automated my job over a year ago and haven't told anyone

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Post by anotherman554 »

howmayiannoyyou wrote: post #15

Love the poster's ingenuity and hate his attitude, and the antiwork subreeddit. Attitude: $90,000 per year isn't likely to generate enough money for this person's retirement, particularly if they encounter major expenses. He should be spending his new free time either developing a side-hustle, a business, or delivering additional value for his employer for which he must insist on additional compensation. I used to be…

The amount you need in retirement is roughly proportional to how much you spend while working, so that if you save 15% of your gross salary throughout your career and invest it in stock, you should be able to retire by 65 and maintain a similar lifestyle in retirement to what you lived while working. The salary is not what matters, it is the savings rate.

Re: I automated my job over a year ago and haven't told anyone

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Post by hn_go_brrrrr »

adrianN wrote: post #56
nlh wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Funny, I had this exact same thought. The red flags for me were their use of “clock in” and “shift”. Those are not concepts generally in play for IT staff at law firms.

I had a software engineering job where I clocked in and time was tracked. Pretty good deal for people who tend to overwork themselves.

I did as well. My company ran a 36 hour hackathon. By law, hours 8-12 were 1.5x time and hours 13+ were 2x time. It was basically an extra paycheck.

Re: I automated my job over a year ago and haven't told anyone

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Post by pietrovismara »

serverholic wrote: post #23
howmayiannoyyou wrote: post #15

Love the poster's ingenuity and hate his attitude, and the antiwork subreeddit. Attitude: $90,000 per year isn't likely to generate enough money for this person's retirement, particularly if they encounter major expenses. He should be spending his new free time either developing a side-hustle, a business, or delivering additional value for his employer for which he must insist on additional compensation. I used to be…

Nobody asks to be born and society is setup to extract as much as possible from you until you die. Fuck society, fuck humanity, fuck productivity, and fuck work. It can all burn for all I care. I'm saving as much money as I can to escape wage slavery then just coasting the rest of my life without living another productive second.

> I'm saving as much money as I can to escape wage slavery then just coasting the rest of my life without living another productive second.

In the meantime, don't forget to steal as much as you can (https://repeaterbooks.com/product/steal-as-much-as-you-can-h...).

Re: I automated my job over a year ago and haven't told anyone

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Post by ravedave5 »

CountDrewku wrote: post #58

Ugh that subreddit is just a cesspool. Most of the stories are fake and it attracts the bottom feeders of society. People need work to feel fulfilled. I get that a corporate job may not meet that demand but this idea that you can just eschew any work and be mentally ok isn't true.

"People need work to feel fulfilled." I never thought I'd see Stockholm syndrome in the wild.

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Post by eterevsky »

keiferski wrote: post #47

This story is a pretty accurate fable for the pointlessness of the modern economy and its inability to provide real value to anyone. Man spends all day playing video games, because he automated his largely superfluous job at a law firm which itself likely only exists to deal with bureaucratic or unnecessary cases (assuming this is true, as they have a single absent IT person who handles their entire infrastructure.)…

He is not paid just to transfer files. He is paid to be responsible for the files being transferred. It's not quite the same thing.

Re: I automated my job over a year ago and haven't told anyone

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Post by ChuckNorris89 »

adrianN wrote: post #56
nlh wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Funny, I had this exact same thought. The red flags for me were their use of “clock in” and “shift”. Those are not concepts generally in play for IT staff at law firms.

I had a software engineering job where I clocked in and time was tracked. Pretty good deal for people who tend to overwork themselves.

In Austria (and I think in Germany it's the same), for most jobs, including IT, employees must track their working time for legal reasons, so I had to clock in and out via a device at the entrance like a factory worker, to prove to HR, accounting and the bureaucratic government institutions in charge of taxing me, that I'm indeed at my workplace 8h/day.

One company I interviewed at had a work-time time tracking machine next to the coffee machine as breaks were not included in the working time. I said no thanks to that job but it's quite common in Austria at more traditional companies who insist you're only productive while your butt is in the chair.

Thanks Covid for the disruption but it's a massive shame it took a global tragedy for companies and governments to realize people working in tech and other sectors can be just as productive without needing to commute somewhere else just so they can keep a seat warm for 8h/day.

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