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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.
Just read through all of 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.
What are you going to do when you retire though?
The key point is that some people would actually work rather than sit at home, eat food, and wait for the ballgame to come on. So, if you are one of those people, then might as well get paid for it now.
I think the key is to snag a job where your hours are set. No overtime. Unfortunately, I have so seldom had one of those. I see people posting about dreading work and 40 hours a week killing their lives.
If I could only work a set 40 hours, my life would be beyond a dream...
You're on a forum where people come to seek input from others, usually with a problem, question, or concern. So I would expect that many of the titles reflect that.
Everyone's goal in life is different. Find what makes you happy and work towards your personal goals. But I do hope you find a fulfilling job. While I may complain about my boss or my company culture occasionally, I can honestly say that I love what I do. I enjoy going to work every day. I feel fulfilled. Even with not working being financially feasible due to a dual income household, I don't want to quit my job. But of course there is often a trade-off and work/life balance is difficult to attain.
Best of luck in your endeavors; working or otherwise.
I have a really good job, but things are looking like we are going back into a recession as a nation so I started looking on USA jobs and figured with all of my education, skills and experience I would be able to snag an interview for a fed job. That was not so lol. Apparently the vet status weights heavily and national guard experience does not count.
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.
If you have no aspirations that require much money then its easy to retire early, because of this tiny island situation I have thought about abandoning certain aspirations that I have so that I can get off the wheel sooner.
Though it is a catch 22 because the aspirations that I am compelled to do are also what make me highly valuable at my job (though apparently not the fed govt lol) and are also apart of who I am.
Make a lot of money and retire early is like the south park underpants knomes. How do you make a lot of money if you don't have some compulsion to do something that is complicated or hard and requires upfront investment and risk? Assuming you do have that compulsuion, how do you just turn it off as soon as you start making the good money.
Also what happens if you retire at say 40 and your hanging out for 3-4 years and decide you want to see the world but your early retirement plan does not account for that expense and now you are out of date on your trade by 4 years and likely lost any relevant contacts that could actually get you a job.
I have a really good job, but things are looking like we are going back into a recession as a nation so I started looking on USA jobs and figured with all of my education, skills and experience I would be able to snag an interview for a fed job. That was not so lol. Apparently the vet status weights heavily and national guard experience does not count.
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.
If you have no aspirations that require much money then its easy to retire early, because of this tiny island situation I have thought about abandoning certain aspirations that I have so that I can get off the wheel sooner.
Though it is a catch 22 because the aspirations that I am compelled to do are also what make me highly valuable at my job (though apparently not the fed govt lol) and are also apart of who I am.
Make a lot of money and retire early is like the south park underpants knomes. How do you make a lot of money if you don't have some compulsion to do something that is complicated or hard and requires upfront investment and risk? Assuming you do have that compulsuion, how do you just turn it off as soon as you start making the good money.
Also what happens if you retire at say 40 and your hanging out for 3-4 years and decide you want to see the world but your early retirement plan does not account for that expense and now you are out of date on your trade by 4 years and likely lost any relevant contacts that could actually get you a job.
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.
Let's face it: unless you have some in demand special skills or some talent you will never make a ton of money. You want to make a ton of money? Marry into it 'cos most of us are not going to inherit it.
But if you want to do well, and you must do well, then you need to pick occupations that can't be outsourced or replaced with machines/robots. They also can't be so oversaturated that salaries become low. What those "special" occupations are, you have to find for yourself.
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.
I agree for the most part. Many of my major life choices are based around retiring as early as possible.
Working only sucks when society spirals into the current system where people that work are forced to continual support a large segment of the population that does not want to work.
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.
Just because you make a lot, doesn't mean you enjoy it later. You can always die the day before retiring and miss all the joy in between.
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) but also paying for their trust funds, and oh ... a house in case they need to use it (which they don't).
