Aaaaaaahhhhhhh!!!!!! I can’t take it anymore, this rat race is miserable as fuck, all day every day I have to take bullshit from everybody, idiotic manager, backstabbing team mates, moronic team mates, team mates smarter than me who make me feel dumb, ... Even the work itself is not as fun as it used to be, every framework or piece of technology is so massive these days that mastering it is a challenge and the pressure to do it quickly doesn’t leave the time to appreciate the art. I used to get depressed on Sundays thinking about Monday, now I get frustrated even on Friday and Saturday nights, I wake up in the middle of the night and for a second I think tomorrow is Monday! I am 32, I live very frugally and through frugal living I saved 1.5M, all invested in Vanguard index funds. What if I just call it quits and go live somewhere cheap forever? Will that money last me if I keep it all invested and spend as little as possible in a beach town? I have dual citizenship so I can go in every place in Mediterranean Europe like Italy or Spain. I don’t have a family and don’t want kids. Blind cheer me up!
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You in Seattle!?
Bay
Ah. If you were arnd here, figured I’ll take you for drinks and try to get in your pants. Oh well!
Lol man no family or kids + 1.5M liquid assets? Just take a few months off, no reason to feel pressure at all.
Spain and rural Italy are cheap. You'd be much more comfortable with a language you already know though
You have 1.5M savings at 32, damn. I’m much older have much less saved. Why do you worry so much at work? Why do you care about idiotic manager and backstabbing team mates? What’s the worst thing that could happen? They could give you bad review? They can fire you? But you are already thinking to quit. So don’t quit, go back to work every day and don’t give a f* what’s going on around you, focus on work and try to do it as best as possible to your satisfaction, and if it comes to worst then take few months off to decide what you want to do next.
I think your problem is that you live frugally. Without activities outside of work, all you have to complain about is work.
I hear you, mate. I had a severe allergy against work :-). Took two absent times (temporary retirements) to go 1) surfing in Europe and Northern Africa and 2) travel the US East Coast. Best I could do. I grew as a person, tons of adventures and was refreshed when I decided that the accounts were depleted sufficiently or the girl I was hanging with didn’t want to finance me anymore. Pro tip, if you can: I also spent time in Havana, Cuba and surroundings. No GPS, no real mobile connection, the freaking bus comes or it doesn’t, breakfast with rum, sex with rum, sex and breakfast with rum, a big cigar on the roof of your Casa Particular at night watching the stars. It’s as if you hit a wall with a Porsche at 120 mpH. Everything seems to stop at once. Did I mention the people are awesome? Just do it!
Weird, but this post makes me feel better 😂
Because you’re feeling better than me or because you feel we share a common pain? Lol
You are alive and healthy and not homeless. You control your happiness.