Some call it "work-life balance".
I call it, "moving from the upper-middle class to the middle class", and saving on taxes, while improving your living standard.
I haven't yet convinced my husband, but he's listening.
Just think of all of the software he could build, if he didn't waste so much time working as a software developer.
My wife and I live this way. She could make more money, could work more days a week if she wanted to, but has decided to spend more time raising our children. I’ve chosen a career that provides with me with an adequate amount of money to fund our chosen lifestyle, and gives me a lot of time to spend with her and my children. We live simply, spend are money on experiences, and spend our free time with our children.
Damn it *our. Coffee needed now.
Yeah, people think we're nuts, but right back at 'em. 😂
I'm trying to get my hubby into semi-retirement by 55 and I might actually manage to do it.
What not even I accounted for, was that we'd use the free time to increase our skill sets, so our net yearly income has been increasing in real terms, while our hours decline.
It's wild.
😂 yes, people think we are crazy and doing things backwards. It’s funny though, because it’s our friends who think this, and they are in the same age cohort as us; however, when we speak with people who are older, and that have children that are university aged, they commend us and tell us we are doing it correctly.
I think that it is really important for young adults, who are starting out on their career paths, to realistically assess their “wants” and then match their career aspirations to those goals. I knew early on what I needed to be happy, and was able to attain a career that gave me that. My “wants” are miniscule, whereas others may need all the fancy shiny things.
Also, to your point in your original note, people are always talking about having “FU” money, so that they can be more free, but an equally effective strategy is to be happy with way less. If one were to hop off the treadmill, and minimize those “wants” one could be free with a lot less.
I find pleasure in down time reading a book, cooking a meal, playing a board game, or spending time on the land. All of these things are nearly free.
Yes, having a nice life hardly costs anything. We learned that the hard way, when we were homeschooling two kids on one midsized-income.
We just stayed that way. 🤷♀️
Everything leftover gets invested or saved.
If you have given the ability to choose a job that has this or that characteristic that is convenient for you, then consider yourself very lucky. Many people can't find a job at all. Don't forget it, else overextention is ahead
If it were merely luck, it wouldn't happen over and over in every state and country I've lived in, for nearly 3 decades.
I'm just relentless, insatiably curious and I learn really fast.
Luck has nothing to do with it. Hard work, experience, and an understanding of my place in the world has made the difference. I came from nothing, and when I die, I will leave the world with something.
🤝
You got the experience because the opportunity has been given to you. The rest might all be your hard work etc, but there is always some luck somewhere
Nothing has been given to me. I took it.
Yeah, we hunt that opportunity down and tackle it, hog-tie it, and drag it to our lair.
For that we have two sayings in Greece, i'll tell you the one. The translation is something like "do your part and Athena (the godess) will help". So yeah hunting opportunities is a must 👍
I think you are discounting how relentless we are.
Probably i discount much more, but yeah you are right again. Just trying to be humble 😃
Be humble by giving credit to the Lord, and acknowledging that He can take it all away again, not by denying how hard you worked.
Blaming chance gives rise to envy and class warfare.
I try to calculate everything. Hard work and chance alike. Envy is not my thing. Class war definitely is though. Fuck the corrupted oligarchs
I would like to hear that story if i may, if not too personal etc. May i?
I’m sorry the world isn’t big enough for me to tell my story, or anymore significant than anyone else’s. We all need to work and scrape to get what we want out of this life.
Of course luck is not the only element you need. Still is important for that.
People keep telling me that, but it always ends up being the same people joining me, when it's time to roll up the sleeves and work.
You can see it on Nostr. Make a post about something silly or sexy and a gazillion people swarm to it.
Say you want to discuss Kant or Ecclesiastes or the best way to compost for organic gardening, or ask for help with some typescript and watch the place immediately clear out and the same 20 people are left over that are always left over.
That's why we all know each other.
It's the same IRL.
Yeah we have a saying for that in Greece. I don't know how to translate that in English. It's έτερον εκάτερον, something like jesus said to court, the things for Caesar are Caesar's things, something like that.
So what about unluckiness. If something goes wrong, is it bad luck?
I don't believe in luck. I believe in Providence.
100% I left banking where I was working 60-70 hour weeks for a non-profit job working 30-40. It hurt at first. Loosing half your income when all your life plans and purchases were based on what you used to earn is HARD. I had to refinance my house and sell my 2 year old car for a 15 year old car I got with $2000 difference in what I owed on my new car and what I sold it for. But my life has been so much better. Now I work from home with so much less stress I practically feel retired.
Same, bro. Feels like pre-retirement.
