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When I look around, I find it hard to believe this is the best way for this person to spend their prime 9-5 time. They get paid just like me for what they do. But it's underutilized potential. This concept of "having" a job that fills your time is not bad. But I just feel when a large population of smart and talented people start doing jobs "continuously" the net result is not what we could have got, had the same set of people took fixed timespan risks. Like there should be social and monetary incentives to give yourself a year or two to do something outside of your job and if it doesn't work, you atleast tried something out of the box. I am sure some people do it but I don't see this common / incentivized. I feel it should be the thing majority of people do. The best years of 20s, 30s and 40s of hundreds of thousands of people are currently being spent in a very singular way in the 21st century. Thoughts?
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FIRE before your 40s.
Ya, this is essentially the idea of why FIRE and similar concepts have become so popular. I would add to look for a work from home/remote job. I hate the idea of sitting in the office just to hit x hours. Remote lets you get shit done when you are ready to work and take advantage of the downtime...
My goal is to become an engineer that can lead projects at global scale. This means my 9-5 time is spent working towards that goal. I find it kind of sad that some people’s goal is to retire, there’s so much potential
I'm not sad about it. I have career goals but they are all achievable before I FIRE at 40.
I respect the concept of FIRE and it is a worthy goal for the person chasing it. And to be honest, I chased it too. But now that I am somewhere in that journey, I feel it is too myopic. The thing about this rat race is that it makes us all believe that we are in it for ourselves. When infact the corporations tap into the collective power of the best minds from the world every day. That's why they are reaching trillion dollar value. Collective focussed effort is more powerful. We have got to start drawing a vision larger than our own selves. Like having a goal to get 10 people around you reach FIRE is IMHO more visionary than chasing it for ourselves.
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