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Not of XPT, calm down you dipshits, but out of the ratrace.

I want to sleep in every day, go to the dojo on odd days and go to cooking classes or the library on evens. I don't need a flashy car. I don't need a huge house. I don't need a million dollars. I don't even need health care because I'm a Canadian.

I don't want to take part in the fucking ratrace any more.

What do you guys reasonably think would be enough money to retire with? Keep in mind I've been living on peanuts for the last five years as I paid off 90% of all my debts, so my living expenses are pretty minimal right now.




Just to play devil's advocate for a moment...

Have you thought about what type of job you would enjoy doing so that it doesn't feel like such a rat race and you can make a paycheck too?

Just an example, but:

if you think you'd like to take cooking classes, would you be interested in being a cook?

if you enjoy going to the Dojo, what about starting your own gym or martial arts school or working at one?


I remember when I was in the military there were many guys who didn't want to re-enlist, but who had been in the military since they were teenagers and had never learned how to live on their own and were too scared to get out.

When I first got out, I worked construction and was surrounded by guys who hated their jobs, but didn't have an education and were making very good money and just stayed for the paycheck.

Everybody has heard of prisoners who have spent so much time in prison they have become "institutionalized" when in reality it is just a case of fear mixed with low self esteem (or even worse--simply no imagination).

I promise you that if you can discover whatever it is in life that you enjoy doing, not only will life stop feeling like a rat race, it will give you self respect, a feeling of accomplishment, and a more fulfilling, enjoyable, and happy existence than simply passing time until you die.


Edited by E.Y.Davis (03/31/10 02:43 PM)
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