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Fighting pirates sounds like a fun life.
Short as it may be...
Unless you out-pirate them.
I don't want to work very hard
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Re: I don't want to work very hard
#72Wait, you said you've read The 4 Hour Work Week, WTF else do you need to know? Get some brain supplements and get out on them thar internets!
In all seriousness though, most businesses require a lot more work than a job. If you don't want to work just find a super easy job (government maybe?) and do as little as possible.
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#73I agree and disagree. People here will crucify you for what your saying but it sounds like your exactly like me. I'm not even out of school yet and I've been working part time developer during the year and full time during summer/breaks(pay the bills). Anyways I'm already starting to feel bored and distracted.
May I suggest going to school? Getting a phd and then become a professor and sit around most days grading papers and lecturing. Seems like the kind of lifestyle you'd like.
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#74As much as I sympathize with your sentiment, I'd just like to point out that the real benefit of a larger-than-necessary paycheque is being able to actually save money for when you are too old or technically outdated to continue working. It's certainly enjoyable to switch on and off from work and live off savings, but then you eventually get to the point where you can't find a job to switch back on to, and your savin…
when you are too old or technically outdated to continue working
I'd be willing to bet that, for the current generation at least, that will never happen. (But I still max out my retirement account, just to be safe. :-)
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#75I'm afraid the good times won't keep rolling. Over the next fifty years, humanity is going to face the largest ever crises amongst those that it has the ability to deal with: potential global catastrophe from climate change, and certain global catastrophe unless we develop and widely deploy effective non-fossil energy sources. I say "it has the ability to deal with" because if people become aware of the seriousness o…
Other than pseudo-climatology alarmist bullshit, is your theory founded on anything?
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#76Re: I don't want to work very hard
#77I'm afraid the good times won't keep rolling. Over the next fifty years, humanity is going to face the largest ever crises amongst those that it has the ability to deal with: potential global catastrophe from climate change, and certain global catastrophe unless we develop and widely deploy effective non-fossil energy sources. I say "it has the ability to deal with" because if people become aware of the seriousness o…
Other than pseudo-climatology alarmist bullshit, is your theory founded on anything?
Potentially the educated opinions of almost every significant national science or geological organization in the world? See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_opinion_on_climate_c...
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#78OP, you mentioned the "Protestant Work Ethic". I'm assuming you mean just the general principle of the North American "doing the best-est one can do" and not that you believe in protestant religion? But if you are protestant/religious, do get in touch, there may be more at risk here than mere loss time or homelessness/starvation/etc. -best wishes,
Re: I don't want to work very hard
#79Without being passionate about what you do, you are unlikely to succeed in your aims.
Build a portfolio of passive income assests.
Ideally you should have been doing this while you had those 38hours per week "free", but it is not too late to start.
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#80What are your hobbies?
Walking (hence the username), reading, languages (human or code), hacking roguelikes and muds, knitting. Doesn't sound like much when I just list them, but I can happily spend a roughly infinite amount of time on them.
You should travel. Very few people regret traveling.
Start somewhere easy like Thailand, spend six weeks crossing India, spend a month or two in Vietnam. Travel light, but take a credit card. You'll be transformed and work will make sense again.