Is working 42 years straight a bit scary?
It feels somewhat like to sell your time to the company... and sometimes I can get burned out in 3 years... and so to think about working for 42 years continuously, from age 23 to 65, seems scary. But to keep on having income, and save money fro retirement, we really might need to keep working, instead of working 2, 3 years and rest for 1 or 2 year, because then we probably will use up all the money we saved up while working. Have you been working for many years continuously or think you will do so?
“The one who’s working will get a chance to take the long breaks.“ 🥡🥢 “Family objections and visa issues will be a hurdle.”🥡🥢 “During your single years, the freedom you enjoy will be unbounded.”🥡🥢
Not working for 42 years scares me more. Work gives us meaning, and you can always work for yourself in the end.
don't have to go to that extreme...
Working 2 or 3 years and then resting 1 or 2 years? What world do you live? Where is this a practice that actually happens?
One can dream though.
say, if your TC is 250k or 300k... can't you work for 3 years and rest for 1 or 2 years? (if you are single)
You won’t actually need to work for 42 years if you save and invest your money carefully.
Find something you really like doing or at least people you like working with...so you look forward to going in each day....OR find the job that pays you enough that you wont really need to do it that long to achieve enough long term financial security
42. Great number.
This is why sane people are burning out and having melt downs. How do I live and work 10-12 hours a day? The 9-5 is over. 50 hour work weeks the new standard.
9-9-6 in China. Work from 9am to 9pm, 6 days a week. 1 hour lunch break and 1 hour dinner break.
? I thought the industry standard was 55 a week. My company ave is 44. At one point it was 48-50.
I used to think about this all the time. How people could be okay (especially in America) working that long. It drove me crazy. Even working for yourself if worse as it almost guarantees more hours. At the moment, my only solution is to stop thinking.
Best part is despite all that work you do, even if you have some mid 6 figure salary, your total income at the end will be nowhere near what some entertainment industry warlord can bestow on some 'talent' on a whim
isn't it true some of them can do 1 episode and it is $1M and it is like what somebody may earn in 20 or 30 years?
Yes but it also true that every few weeks someone wins the lottery somewhere. Seinfeld cast, Big Bang Theory cast....those situations are obviously very rare, a lot of things have to align.
Yes. We are cattle
Save, risk, do your own thing
You're always working for the person who gives you money. Employer, investor, customer. There is no such thing as "working for yourself".