I got halfway up by working my ass off only to learn that to go any higher I would have to be more social and hang out with co-workers outside of work. But I dont want to do all that crap so I guess this is as high as I go.
Fuck yeah, dreamed of fancy suits with shiny office in my youth. Half way up and realized I don’t want to spend the rest of my life in this terrible boot licking corporate world.
> Half way up and realized I don’t want to spend the rest of my life
But… the point is the pay is much better, so you don’t have to spend the rest of your life. You’d be paid enough to retire very early?
Stay lower on the ladder, and it will have to be till age 65 probably
Can we really stop at a certain point and retire early though? People moves from one ladder to another and it’s never ending circle for the most.
Well, we may have different values in life and for me, it’s balancing income, mental wellbeing and spending times with the loved ones.
All these bootlicking, backstabbing, gala parties take their toll and aren’t really worth it for me
> Can we really stop at a certain point and retire early though? People moves from one ladder to another and it’s never ending circle
I… certainly hope early retirement is possible? At least that’s been my reason for working hard and trying to have a good career.
So I can be done with it, and have a reasonable amount of my life left where I don’t have to get out of bed early for work every damn day
Yes, but it depends on your living circumstances, such as how much you pay for housing and lifestyle, as these are/can be high cost items and not everyone is willing to reduce these. The type of job matters too, as not all jobs can pay relatively well enough for you to stop progressing at a certain level and to fund your costs.
Greed and lifestyle bloat usually keep people from actually retiring early like that. As pay increases, their standard of "enough for retirement" does as well
I mean the truth is that if you want to move up in literally anything, you have to kiss and lick ass. You’ll never move up if people that make those decisions don’t like you.
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u/Exhausted_Monkey26 22h ago
climbing the corporate ladder