Might be due to the competitive nature that we are living in this world. Things moving fast and everyone competes to be better, working longer hours each day . The hectic life that we experiencing daily make us feels like time past faster.
The days are long but the decades are short
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"I get that this is aimed at the startup crowd, but I've always felt that this sentiment is pretty privileged. We, the elite, get to cherry pick our work and do what we like. But I bet 9/10 people will never feel they have this luxury, and 8/10 will be right." Privileged? Hardly. I worked a regular job for many years while spending years of my free time and weekends to create a business where I can now choose what I…
>I worked a regular job for many years while spending years of my free time and weekends to create a business where I can now choose what I work on. Then you did not have a regular job. You had a job that paid you enough to support yourself while retaining enough free time and mental energy to pursue your startup idea. For most people, this is not the case (esp. the mental energy bit).
Oh, I don't know about that.
Seriously. Mental energy is impacted by a lot of things. And I've had to come up the hard way, just due to my circumstances early on.
Doing this gets harder as we age. But under 30?
It's there for an awful lot of people who want it. There is one's own drive, and there are the kinds of friends one makes and how time is used.
For the longest time, I read one tech book a month. Just needed to gain perspective. I also turned the TV off.
The amount of time this frees up is AMAZING.
Networking pays too.
And for some people, that's starting a business. For others, it's self-employment / contract work. Still others, it's taking hobbies and spinning them into skills they love to exploit.
Lots of ways to get this done. And frankly, doing it consumes 10 to 20 percent of one's free time outside of a 40 - 50 hour work week.
That's not too much time. Just turning the TV off delivers that time for a very large number of people.
There is a clear cost for some jobs too. Where those work demands punch up above 50 hours, it really does start to get tough to do other things. Sadly, we've a lot of people stitching several basic jobs together and that eats a lot of their time.
But for many, who are just working full time, it's possible to make personal investments.
And what a lot of people don't get is the compounding that comes from doing that consistently.
One hour a day spent on this kind of thing compounds better than 5 hours on Saturday does. (though it's really nice to do both!)
Simple things, like just getting up early, make a big impact. Eating healthy, managing sleep to 6 hours instead of 8.5...
What is worth what?
Many people don't see a pay off they can visualize and believe they can actualize, so it's not worth it, and so they don't do it.
Setting aside difficult circumstances, it's often that simple.
Re: The days are long but the decades are short
#303> On work: it’s difficult to do a great job on work you don’t care about. And it’s hard to be totally happy/fulfilled in life if you don’t like what you do for your work I get that this is aimed at the startup crowd, but I've always felt that this sentiment is pretty privileged. We, the elite, get to cherry pick our work and do what we like. But I bet 9/10 people will never feel they have this luxury, and 8/10 will b…
I agree with you mostly. This article was an eye-opener for me which reinforces your thoughts : https://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/01/in-the-name-of-love/
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#305Earlier quoted context omitted.
>I worked a regular job for many years while spending years of my free time and weekends to create a business where I can now choose what I work on. Then you did not have a regular job. You had a job that paid you enough to support yourself while retaining enough free time and mental energy to pursue your startup idea. For most people, this is not the case (esp. the mental energy bit).
"Then you did not have a regular job. You had a job that paid you enough to support yourself while retaining enough free time and mental energy to pursue your startup idea. For most people, this is not the case (esp. the mental energy bit)." I did have a 'regular job'. Most people party, hang out with their friends, and do plenty of other things in their free time. If you have the mental energy to do any of these thi…
Well said.
Building a future generally costs us 10 to 20 percent of our "fun" time, or personal time.
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#306I was 5 minutes late to work every morning, because of taking my son to school in the neighborhood where our new house was being built. I didn't want him to have to move schools in the middle of the year. Boss said "This won't do. You'll have to examine your priorities." I thought about it all day, that night. Next morning I got to work (5 minutes late), went in his office, said "I examined my priorities. Work is #12…
Been there done that. They only grow up once.
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A major reason for a lack of WFH is due to a manager's inability to manage WFH - these are people that have only been taught how to keep people on task, and have to physically view your body in order to know what you are thinking and doing. Many of us are well acquainted with the indirect communication from ticket systems, email, and other sources of social noise. We're used to managers who can take a collection of t…
This isn't even WFH, the person just wanted to drop their son and come to office around 5 minutes late. If you can't handle 5 minutes of delay in some one coming to office, I would deduce you must be super bad in building long lasting relationships with people. Who takes some one to task on coming a few minutes late? This lies at the heart of the problems plaguing our Industry. The people doing the direction and mana…
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Re: The days are long but the decades are short
#308Earlier quoted context omitted.
A major reason for a lack of WFH is due to a manager's inability to manage WFH - these are people that have only been taught how to keep people on task, and have to physically view your body in order to know what you are thinking and doing. Many of us are well acquainted with the indirect communication from ticket systems, email, and other sources of social noise. We're used to managers who can take a collection of t…
This isn't even WFH, the person just wanted to drop their son and come to office around 5 minutes late. If you can't handle 5 minutes of delay in some one coming to office, I would deduce you must be super bad in building long lasting relationships with people. Who takes some one to task on coming a few minutes late? This lies at the heart of the problems plaguing our Industry. The people doing the direction and mana…
This stuff is chronic in service, many production, and similar, mostly hourly, jobs.
They really don't do relationships with people. They just want the cogs to mesh, the stuff to get done, etc...
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Start saving and investing as early as you can. If you haven't, do it on a war footing. Get rid of debt. The more you invest, the more you are likely to benefit over time. In fact you may be surprised more than anything else out there. In many cases, even more than careers, job, raises and promotions- investments play a very critical role in how well you are going to do financially.
> Start saving and investing as early as you can. If you > haven't, do it on a war footing. Get rid of debt. Yeah, maybe. My net positive worth went red about age 18, and stayed that way (sometimes drastically) until I was about 30, when I finally clawed my way back out of the debt hole. The decisions I made, the things I learned, the rash choices I made, decisions to quit jobs and do something exciting when I couldn…
Think how much more you could have done if you didn't have to pay all that debt interest.