You think you are going to retire for 5-10 years? Cute.
bUt iF yOu SeE yOuR wOrKpLaCe lIkE fAmIlY tHeN yOu nEvEr wOrK a DaY iN yOuR lIfE!
Don’t mistake this as me saying this work-til-you-die shit is okay, cause it’s not. But freedom is as much a mindset as it is a material circumstance. There are people who have everything but freedom and there are people who have nothing but freedom.
I’m a 43 year old engineer in an auto plant and I really enjoy my work.
“Free”
Both my parents retired. Are they living it up? Are they checking things off their bucket lists? Nope. They’re having emergency surgeries, planned surgeries, going to the doctor all the time, taking a regiment of pills or they die, and hanging around the house because they’re old and their mobillity isn’t great.
A just reward after a lifetime of work.
It’s a scam, friends. You’re going to work until you’re dead or until it doesn’t really matter anymore whether you’re dead or not.
Hey, I’m ~40 and this is that I do, too! Plus work.
The meaning is to live life and enjoy as much as you can along the way.
I’m going to leave my kids more than my parents will leave me, and more than their parents left them, and hopefully they’ll be shaped with better ideals because of me.
40 Hopefully!
0-10 years.
You can die during the first 60 at any time, never making it.
I’ve watched multiple co-workers not make it to retirement.
Really makes you want to keep doing it.
All the people I know that died did so once they were retired. No thanks, I’m never quitting the work force. You know how many people I know that died from drinking and driving? Zero.
Or never retire due to circumstances outside your control in your working years
40+ years is a long time for shit to go wrong
Die before retirement? Well that’s one way to escape wage slavery 😄
i think about this when looking at the deduction % on my paystub i chose for retirement savings i may never use
At least it will give your children or siblings something to fight over when you die.
only 1 child, so he has it easy, unless i remarry, then it may get spicy
Study never stops though. So technically study would be 60yrs. Shit, I studied more in the US Coast Guard than in school!
This framework fails to consider all the time between those main activities, which we spend shitposting.
Don’t forget sleeping and drinking.
Which we do in order to make the working hours bearable.
The meaning of life? Learning to enjoy it. Realizing that even though it’s a grind sometimes, every instance is something like a miracle, because given all the things from a microbiological scale to an astronomical scale that had to align in just the right sequence for this moment to occur, the probability that you’d even exist to be reading this message is so incredibly close to nil and yet it is happening.
Free? That’s when your kids send your grandkids for you to take care of. Ungrateful bastards…
40 years? Try 50+
I started working at 14-15, and I’ll be happy if I can retire at 65
I’m expecting 13-73.
The philosopher Emil Cioran had an interesting take on this. If I read him right we can stop looking for the meaning of life. It won’t make us happy to look, but it also won’t make us happy to stop. Nothing will make us happy.
Credit: Sidney Harris
I don’t get it.
I’m on the hedonistic treadmill enjoying the run
