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2019-01-07 -Short Attention Span Theater-

How to outlast a job you hate until you can retire

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Posted by Besoeker 2019-01-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top

#1 If it was a party, you wouldn't be getting paid to show up...

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-01-07 00:30|| 2019-01-07 00:30|| Front Page Top

#2 Written by Rex, Mattis, Kelly, or McMasters?

Posted by Victor Emmanuel Trotsky3550 2019-01-07 00:34|| 2019-01-07 00:34|| Front Page Top

#3 Definitely wasn't Kelly, he whined about how soul killing his job was all the time.

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-01-07 00:37|| 2019-01-07 00:37|| Front Page Top

#4 Work is by definition demeaning. Why the hell did Hemingway - the real one - write about fishing, hunting and watching other people fight wars?

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-01-07 00:40|| 2019-01-07 00:40|| Front Page Top

#5 I gave my kids this advice. When you are young and someone asks you what you want to be you say, "an astronaut" or "a MLB pitcher". Around high school, you find out that you get motion sickness and your fastball is 55 mph.

So ask yourself, "Of all the things that you like to do, what subset of those are you good at?"

Lastly, around the age of 25, you realize that it sucks to be poor. So of all those things that you both like and are good at, which will make you money?

Failure to identify something that you like, are good at, and will make you some money will result in you needing to heed the advice of how to outlast a job that you hate until you can retire.

Posted by Crash Dark Lord of the Veal Cutlets1879 2019-01-07 00:56|| 2019-01-07 00:56|| Front Page Top

#6 Absolute best compliment I ever got: When a new hire asked why don't I ever smile, a co-worker beat me to the answer - "Be careful. When he smiles something bad is about to happen."

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-01-07 01:00|| 2019-01-07 01:00|| Front Page Top

#7 I enjoyed watching my family eat, be properly sheltered and educated, basic hierarchy of needs stuff. No one was going to stand in the way of my making these things happen. That was father and grandfather's mission. It was my mission as well.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-01-07 01:06|| 2019-01-07 01:06|| Front Page Top

#8 B. You said it all.

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-01-07 01:12|| 2019-01-07 01:12|| Front Page Top

#9 And stuff I occasionally begrudged I see again now clearly is actually one of my jobs.

Thanks, Besoeker. Thank you a lot.

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-01-07 01:17|| 2019-01-07 01:17|| Front Page Top

#10 I give similar advice to younger people: Besides picking a line of work that will generate an income for you, pick something you like doing that is worth doing - and I add this - and which attracts other workers you like working with. The last part sometimes requires you to change jobs within your specialty.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2019-01-07 02:42|| 2019-01-07 02:42|| Front Page Top

#11 ^ This

Posted by Frank G 2019-01-07 06:56|| 2019-01-07 06:56|| Front Page Top

#12 I'm self-employed because it gives me the ability to pick & choose who I work 'with'. I'm at a point I can do most of this stuff through e-mail and that meeting with every client every year isn't necessary, for either one of us. yes, paying the Federal self-employment tax sucks (CPA's in Mass. aren't allowed to elect S Corp. status with the IRS), but if that's the price I have to pay, so be it.

Posted by Raj 2019-01-07 08:25|| 2019-01-07 08:25|| Front Page Top

#13 Ref #12: I applaud your initiative and obvious wisdom Raj. If we ever lose entrepreneurs like you, we are finished. You are the foundation of MAGA.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-01-07 08:45|| 2019-01-07 08:45|| Front Page Top

#14 Wisdom gained while attending a 7-YO birthday party 9 Grand-daughter #2): "What would write, if you could, to the person that provided you the nudge to enter whatever line of work that makes you happy? Then write it down."

Posted by USN, Ret. 2019-01-07 10:56|| 2019-01-07 10:56|| Front Page Top

#15 #9 Besoeker said it better than I ever could. But would that many, many more people thought that way.

Posted by Tom 2019-01-07 15:11|| 2019-01-07 15:11|| Front Page Top

#16 “Find a job you enjoy doing, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”

― Mark Twain

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-01-07 19:49|| 2019-01-07 19:49|| Front Page Top

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