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kumkss
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ixigia
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| besthijacker wrote: | I would probably still get part-time job at local liquior store  .
But I would spent all my time fishing b/c I love to fish  . And maybe get into hunting as well as photography |
Then it's time to apply: http://www.mastersommeliers.org/  |
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garus
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sausje
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| Posted: Mon, 7th Jan 2013 21:58 Post subject: |
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I wouldn't want that, after almost 10 years, sitting at home is getting really boring and tiresome... 
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DXWarlock
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| Posted: Tue, 8th Jan 2013 12:35 Post subject: |
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What I do now..wander around the net, play games, sleep, eat.
I guess my life would just be a full time version of what my weekends now are.
I'm content as I am. Id just have less "work" 8 hours a day getting in the way of it.
-We don't control what happens to us in life, but we control how we respond to what happens in life.
-Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times. -G. Michael Hopf
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| Posted: Tue, 8th Jan 2013 14:56 Post subject: |
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| DXWarlock wrote: | What I do now..wander around the net, play games, sleep, eat.
I guess my life would just be a full time version of what my weekends now are.
I'm content as I am. Id just have less "work" 8 hours a day getting in the way of it. |
I think the sweetness of weekend time wouldn't be the same. As Sausje wrote, after some time it becomes so tedious and boring. I work for 15 years now and the only problem for me so far (from day one and it didn't change) is get my ass out of the bed (I work in my own little workshop and usually start around 9.00 and finish around 17.00).
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| Posted: Tue, 8th Jan 2013 14:58 Post subject: |
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| fisk wrote: | | PumpAction wrote: | | fisk wrote: | | I'd move to NZ and spend most of my time in the nature and wilderness there together with my GF, taking photos and just relaxing. |
... until you get bitten/stung by a poisonous *insert any animal that lives in NZ*. |
NZ barely has any poisonous animals dude. It is not Australia. |
Well... In that case: Have fun |
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DXWarlock
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| Posted: Tue, 8th Jan 2013 15:14 Post subject: |
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| Chibuky wrote: | | DXWarlock wrote: | What I do now..wander around the net, play games, sleep, eat.
I guess my life would just be a full time version of what my weekends now are.
I'm content as I am. Id just have less "work" 8 hours a day getting in the way of it. |
I think the sweetness of weekend time wouldn't be the same. As Sausje wrote, after some time it becomes so tedious and boring. I work for 15 years now and the only problem for me so far (from day one and it didn't change) is get my ass out of the bed (I work in my own little workshop and usually start around 9.00 and finish around 17.00). |
Its not too bad, I mean 80-90% of my day usually is that now anyway. I work from home the majority of the time now..barely travel anymore for work. Last 4 years of my job Im home probably 300+ days a year sitting right here waiting on emails, conference calls, or napping on the couch listening for my phone/Skype from 9am to 5pm..then Im here in the same chair until midnight+ playing a game, chatting on TS with friends, browsing here...etc.
I'm pretty easy to please. I've traveled all over for work, realized the appeal of it isn't what you think it would be..everywhere is the same pretty much so 'seeing the world' wouldn't be something id want to do. Long as I got money to pay bills and enough for my hobbies without stressing over spending that extra, I'm content.
Cant say I'm a hermit so much because I don't avoid people per say, but I don't like going out often..not much out there to do that's more exciting/appealing/pleasing than what I can do here, for me personally anyway. so why go thru the trouble of leaving?
I mean only thing I can think of is I might start tinkering in my basement with some woodworking got a crap load of tools for it, and was raised around it..always had a urging to do a bit of it, but overall I pretty much get paid now to sit around the house and long as I got a couple hobbies, or books I've been meaning to read to occupy my time when not working or on-call..I can be happy as a clam until I die 
I guess I could be one of those people when ask "what would you like to do if you had all the free time in the world" with the answer "nothing...nothing at all, that's the beauty of it. I have nothing I'd need to do. whatever I feel like wandering over to and go 'I will piddle around on this for a while' would be my daily schedule"
I had pretty much all of December off, And I think I left the house once to eat out with my wife and kids, and a handful of times to get drink/cigarettes..the rest I was happy as hell to be home and doing fuck all.
Think of the guy happily living in the woods in a cabin whittling wood into art, a bed, a few old books, and a dog. He can be like that for 30 years and wish for nothing more to make him happy. I'm just the techno/hi tech/science geek version of that. Change the dog for internet, the old books for some science non-fiction books, and the whittling for random electronics to tinker on/tear apart.
-We don't control what happens to us in life, but we control how we respond to what happens in life.
-Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times. -G. Michael Hopf
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| Posted: Tue, 8th Jan 2013 17:27 Post subject: |
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If you have enough money, you won't have any time to get bored. There's a shitload to do on this planet, but you have to work and most likely have not nearly enough money to achieve 1% of that potential.
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doobzilla
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| Posted: Tue, 8th Jan 2013 18:07 Post subject: |
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To me, it's a matter of perspective (if you could call it that). If I only have 20% of my time available to do the things that I want to do, I'm more likely to be more discerning and I'm, in all likelihood, going to enjoy what I choose to do much more. Whereas, if I have 100% of my time available to do the things that I want to do, I'll probably just end up sitting on a bench in some park, staring at the children while I feed the birds.
I appreciate what little time I have when I'm not at work because I have to work. Regardless of how much money I make, I don't believe that having a lot of time available to do whatever I want would be conducive to my attaining happiness.
As an example:
I have a female friend who is still at university (studying to get her second master's degree, she already has a PhD in mathematics, this one is in chemistry education, we are both 34) and, yet, she is worth fifteen million dollars (her father is an extremely prosperous businessman and set her up with a trust fund to basically hide the money from the girl's mother before the mother divorced him). She plans on working but, as-of-yet, has no idea where or what she might do with either of her degrees. She has never had to work, nor will she ever. She will never have to worry about money and yet she is one of the most unhappy people I know. She is so bored (that's why she's still in school, so she says). She has several hobbies (none of which are cheap) and she goes, "vacationing," several times a year to very exotic locations. She can't keep a boyfriend (probably because they can't handle that she has so much money at her disposal) and she says that she doesn't really need one anyway.
Her sister, on the other hand, has yet to reach the age of 25 (which is how old she has to be to access the trust fund with no supervision) and has said that she is content in her life and that she will, most likely, give most of the money away to charity as she doesn't see the need to have that much when so many people have so little. My friend once said that she used to feel the same way, but that, once she had unfettered access to the money, she changed her mind. My friend has told me several times that, if it weren't for the money, she might actually feel productive as she would be forced to have a job to survive.
I'm not sure that I completely agree as I work over 60 hours a week on average and I'm barely making ends meet (I never should have refinanced my house into a ten year note...dammit), but I can understand how she could feel that way.
My point is this, without doing something constructive with our time, we would most likely become more and more depressed.
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