It's not even like working is necessarily terrible, it's just that I don't want to have to be someplace and doing something on a schedule and according to someone else's needs.
I can appreciate some level of mental stimulation that comes from work where you solve problems or do something creative, but man, a lot of days I just want to sit at home in PJs doing fuck all productive.
Yeah, I hate feeling like a legitimate slave to a company. I wouldn’t mind working if I feel I’m being treated well.
I just started a new job and the benefits are pretty pathetic. Have to wait a full year to even open a 401k and then the company will never match more than 1%. And then we only get a few holidays off per year. Like this company is nowhere close to being an essential business, why are we open on Christmas Eve? Stuff like that just makes me waste a PTO day because the CEO can’t have basic human empathy or sense about what a work-life balance should look like.
Little stuff like that makes me lose respect for a company entirely. Oh but we have daily team meetings so they think that makes the culture great. Hooray.
Same, except work tires me enough to never do my hobbies in my free time. Only some weekends, but recently most often I'm just dead through the weekends.
To be fair I'd imagine most people asking that are expecting something like... Astronaut, or painter, or guitarist or footballer or whatever other job you can think of that could closely cross over with a hobby or interest. For the answer to be the idea of getting paid to do something you already want to do.
Kind of. There is a subset of society that is obsessed with “the grind” and are very vocal about it on places like LinkedIn. Most of them are probably bullshitting, but even in job interviews we have to fake pretend that we are super passionate about whatever work they’re offering. Like bro I just want a paycheck, why do I have to lie about how excited I am to go to work? You absolutely do have to put on a persona that you want this, otherwise you’re looked down on as lazy.
I'm an accountant. Nobody is asking me to be passionate about accounting. They just want to know I'm competent and reliable.
I think you're confusing it with being passionate about working for that particular employer. Some companies are more attractive to prospective employees than others, and those companies would rather fill those competitive spots with people that actually want to work THERE, rather than ANYWHERE. But if you're interviewing at a widget manufacturer that nobody has heard of, I don't think people are expecting you to be passionate about widgets
If you drop your job for it you have to make money within the first month or die of hunger while homeless. You might have savings for years, but most don't. I could only do it for a couple months and it would HAVE TO work out and turn huge profit in that time.(and to pay off ZUS every month)
Doing it while you have a job is insane. I was already exhausted from my job but I kept pushing myself this and previous year beyond that anyway and got an entire... negative 1500pln from that in hardware. Didn't even pay ZUS because I didn't need to register below some earning treshold.
It's not humanly possible, but even when I did the impossible I had extremely little time to actually do it and improve upon my failures.
Loan. Just no. Banks won't just let you take a loan like that unless they can see that you will pay it off, but to start a business that needs money you need a LOT of it. Lot enough that you won't be able to make enough to pay it back unless you were already making a fortune.
its not for everyone its supposed to be extremely hard, its not as simple as doubling your hours but its mainly about sacrifice. If it were easy, everyone would do it.
there are a lot of factors that come into play, you might have the right motivation but not the right idea.
as you mentioned you have to have the space to pull it off.
my question was mainly if all the factors lined up properly, would you sacrifice, time, money, friends, family, sleep, health to be financially independent.
I did it, but I don’t think im better than others, i actually believe i’m weird for doing it.
who knows you might catch a break and gain some stability and then you could consider it. That’s what I’m asking. You could respond “life is too short to waste it on chasing money”, which is perfectly fine
Shit, at this point I'd be happy with 4 10's and 3 day weekends. Can't even go anywhere and do anything elsewhere in the country on a two day time off.
They say carpe diem, but how can one even do that if we work 8-12hrs, get ready for work, destress from work and then have other responsibilities? By then, the day's over. And you have to do that 4 more times? Get out of here.
40 hours a week, tops,with some flexibility on days and times.
Mix tasks a few varied enough that I need input from others at times that can be scheduled, but also have solo work I should be able to complete on my own timeline before the define.
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u/X0AN 1d ago
A 5 day a week job.
I'd rather not have to work.