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Location: East of Seattle since 1992, 615' Elevation, Zone 8b - originally from SF Bay Area
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Originally Posted by statisticsnerd
Just read through the thread titles in this forum. Almost all of them are very negative.
My game plan: forget about trying to find a fulfilling job, focus on acquiring the highest paying jobs possible, live as frugally as possible, retire as early as possible, then do whatever you want. Working is simply a means to an end.
People don't post on forums to tell everyone how great things are going, they post to vent, and hope to hear that others are suffering too, it helps their egos to hear that they are not a failure, but just victims of "the system."
At 63 I'm not thinking of retiring for 5-7 years. It's the most interesting, fun, and financially rewarding part of my career. This week has been hectic with some drastic changes to the system I'm responsible for, and at the same time the demands of data from external auditors doing some investigations. Never a dull moment, a lot of troubleshooting, and more time to build up my pension, since I only started here 6 years ago, and also add to my 401K and SS benefit. My employees include millenials, Gex-Xers and on up to boomers, ranging from $60-90k with great benefits. Hope is not lost.
If you want to make a lot of money- work for yourself. Have something to offer. The whiners I see on this forum have no special skills, are not particularly motivated, yet somehow want to get above average pay and perks. Find a specialty, get good at it, go out and find your own clients, set your own prices, retire early.
I don't hate my job, it is fine...but if I won $10M I would find a different job that likely pays a lot less, but makes me feel more fulfilled. Unfortunately, jobs that I would be interested in would mean I couldn't support my family....so I work my job, that is not particularly fulfilling, but is not terrible. I keep trying to learn new things and find projects that are interesting...that helps.
It feels like I am on a nice tiny island with a margarita and a woman giving me a BJ with dark strom clouds in the distance and the ocean starting to get rough around my tiny island.
Real estate is a dead end right now, unless he needs some to start his own practice or something. I have been looking all over the country and it boggles my mind how expensive property is EVERYWHERE other than crap holes like tornado ally or major flood zones etc.
IF he has a crap ton of money and is just looking for rental property to hedge against inflation then I suppose that makes sense, but I think the perfect storm is brewing for a major correction because most people can afford these crazy prices right now.
If I were him, I would start a med research lab and try to cure the common cold. We have people using baby parts to close limbs and all kinds of crazy stuff but they still cant cure the cold, how lame is that. !?!?!
If someone had a bonified cure for the cold they could sell the pill for 200$ a piece and people would pay it to avoid 3-5 days of misery.
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Originally Posted by jobaba
Exactly right.
If your ambition is to sit around and watch TV and drink beer, you can get a pretty easy job paying 20 bucks an hour and easily support yourself doing that for the rest of your life.
My friend's father is a specialty doctor. He could have retired many years ago, but wanted to make sure his kids were set. Not just set through private high school, undergrad, and law and medical school (all paid for by him ) but also paying for their trust funds, and oh ... a house in case they need to use it (which they don't).
Now that he is 'retired', he is doing a ton of work, scheming, trying to do real estate investments, etc.
the tiny island is my good job right now, the problem is I am doing market testing to see how well my resume gets me interviews else where and I am looking at USA jobs and its brutal. I am guessing it has more to do with the whole vet preference thing rather than actual qualifications so I have to keep trying other things.
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Originally Posted by chaseo1
WTH are you rambling about?
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