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It isn't complicated: I enjoy what I do.



So, why are you posting in a thread about how to retire?

I've been there, done that, am still doing it, and will enjoy it until 2012. Then life will get even better.

I think you are jealous because I have a way to really enjoy what life really is, while you try to define life as your professional life, because you are trapped there. Oh, I meant to get trapped in this, it feels good. Oh, if you want to do something different after your 35 years of working, you are escaping from life as I define it. Oh, I wouldn't want to travel to wonderful natural places in the luxury of a new RV and go hiking, 4WDing, and motorcycling in huge national forests, that's childish. And I don't want to hear about meeting and making so many friends in all these great places, because Chuck meets them in meetings, and I don't understand that, either. And I wouldn't want to try to value myself any other way than the way I was trained, by answering the question, "So, what do you do?" by reporting my vocation.

Maybe Bornyo is right. Ya'll just don't understand this. I thought you would, and Fenris seemed to think so, too. I would have thought porn fiends would have a proclivity for dropping out of the grind to live leisurely, but I guess I'm wrong. All I know is I see a whole lot of joy over on the fulltime RV forums, and about half of them would trade their current financial situation for paid-up stuff, decent health insurance, and $400k in a jiffy.

It scares me on a deeper level that when someone asks about how to do this, people are so quick to defend the system that keeps the widgets cranking out and the corporate coffers filled, and suggest that even the thought of freedom is somehow so vile it means you have failed as a human being. I would have thought porn people would have enough open mindedness to see there are other paths than nose to the grindstone until you work yourself to death, desperately trying to wring self-worth out of some employment that can evaporate at the whim of some mid level manager.
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