Anyone else spent years working and raising kids, and acquiring one certification, after another, to stay relevant, and just apathetic, now?
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I'd rather plant potatoes, or something.
You can eat potatoes. Don't need a master's degree in electrical engineering to qualify to plant potatoes.
We all have bad days my fav digital fren…I still don’t have a frickin purple check🤔…potato farm by night and do what u do best in the day…punch the elitist enemies of free speech in the f*#kin kidney 🌅
The real relevance was the kids we made along the way.
My kids are the only reason I've ever been motivated to work on things I'm not interested in. Now that they're basically adults, I'm like...
Living that hobo life, bitchez.
I've become absolutely fascinated with my own ability to enjoy my life without spending much money. It's like an economic superpower, or something.
I have no idea what everyone else is buying. 🤷♀️
I reckon it's because early on having things matters in terms of social status signalling and security provision for people looking to mate and raise kids.
Once you're not looking to social signal stuff doesn't matter. Why buy stuff when you can buy time, which, by the 40s probably ought to be more important than material needs.
That's true. I just want to walk around outside, hang out with my family, and chill in my house eating pot roast, reading, writing, and drinking good wine, basically.
I guess I've already done so much PoW, that it's like... Let me enjoy this, now.
🙋🏻. I feel like Boxer the horse from animal farm. Still work 60 hour weeks in a job that pays 5x less then it did 20 years ago in fiat, but now that im paid in bitcoin things are starting to change. I see the path forward.
Yeah, with Bitcoin, you can at least save up some of the excess income, instead of watching it dissolve in a savings' account.
I did something different.
I left for where my skills were already in huge demand and not likely to fill it for decades
Yeah, I could do that, but then I'd have to commute to Munich or move to Hamburg, and I'm getting too old and tired for that.
You would think high demand would drive the income up enough to make moving worthwhile, but it doesn't. Job market here is so broke.