List your day job and the life-fullfilling things you've made sure to always have time for.
List your day job and the life-fullfilling things you've made sure to always have time for.
After wasting my best years as an infantryman in two war zones, I came home completely dedicated to living a simple and quiet life.
I'm not at all interested in the rat race. For starters, everyone involved in pursuing salaries and expensive toys is just trying to prove their worth to they're neighbors. You can't buy any thing that I respect. That has to be earned...the easiest way to my heart is a Combat Action Ribbon...don't have one you better bring something else pretty dam impressive to the table.
So by day (four days a week) I manage a small car repair shop.
On my days off, I run, read, tend to a garden in the summer, I'm learning to paint, and one of these days I'll write my novel (that's why I joined the Marines and volunteered for infantry after all.)
Med student. Pretty busy with school, but I make time to run a bit and to do at least a little bit of writing every day.
Devil Dog wrote:
After wasting my best years as an infantryman in two war zones, I came home completely dedicated to living a simple and quiet life.
I'm not at all interested in the rat race. For starters, everyone involved in pursuing salaries and expensive toys is just trying to prove their worth to they're neighbors. You can't buy any thing that I respect. That has to be earned...the easiest way to my heart is a Combat Action Ribbon...don't have one you better bring something else pretty dam impressive to the table.
So by day (four days a week) I manage a small car repair shop.
On my days off, I run, read, tend to a garden in the summer, I'm learning to paint, and one of these days I'll write my novel (that's why I joined the Marines and volunteered for infantry after all.)
Thanks for serving your country and I see your point, but sadly to be "anyone," or go "anywhere" in this country it's all about the $$$. 🙠In this day & age people are addicted to money, prestige & status. Everyone is judged by the car they drive, the house they live in, the clothes they wear, etc. Even the vast majority of women not only want a hunk of a guy, but one that is loaded.
And for the poor folks struggling to make a living, the Nation's wealthiest elite simply spit and look down on them (i.e., "useless eaters"). People worship $$$...it's their God and Devine Intervention After all, who would have ever thought this country would elect a Billionaire Aristocrat to President! 😩
If you don't have kids and make under 30k its not altruistic, just underachieving due to having no need to make more.
The people making more choose to in order to give their children a life with as many options as possible.
Devil Dog wrote:
After wasting my best years as an infantryman in two war zones, I came home completely dedicated to living a simple and quiet life.
I'm not at all interested in the rat race. For starters, everyone involved in pursuing salaries and expensive toys is just trying to prove their worth to they're neighbors. You can't buy any thing that I respect. That has to be earned...the easiest way to my heart is a Combat Action Ribbon...don't have one you better bring something else pretty dam impressive to the table.
So by day (four days a week) I manage a small car repair shop.
On my days off, I run, read, tend to a garden in the summer, I'm learning to paint, and one of these days I'll write my novel (that's why I joined the Marines and volunteered for infantry after all.)
Where do you live Devil Dog? And how old are you? I'm single and you sound like my kind of guy.
I'm in Bend, Oregon.
Stinky wrote:
Devil Dog wrote:After wasting my best years as an infantryman in two war zones, I came home completely dedicated to living a simple and quiet life.
I'm not at all interested in the rat race. For starters, everyone involved in pursuing salaries and expensive toys is just trying to prove their worth to they're neighbors. You can't buy any thing that I respect. That has to be earned...the easiest way to my heart is a Combat Action Ribbon...don't have one you better bring something else pretty dam impressive to the table.
So by day (four days a week) I manage a small car repair shop.
On my days off, I run, read, tend to a garden in the summer, I'm learning to paint, and one of these days I'll write my novel (that's why I joined the Marines and volunteered for infantry after all.)
Thanks for serving your country and I see your point, but sadly to be "anyone," or go "anywhere" in this country it's all about the $$$. 🙠In this day & age people are addicted to money, prestige & status. Everyone is judged by the car they drive, the house they live in, the clothes they wear, etc. Even the vast majority of women not only want a hunk of a guy, but one that is loaded.
And for the poor folks struggling to make a living, the Nation's wealthiest elite simply spit and look down on them (i.e., "useless eaters"). People worship $$$...it's their God and Devine Intervention After all, who would have ever thought this country would elect a Billionaire Aristocrat to President! 😩
I work for a software company and this is not my experience at all.
Most of the people are making decent salaries, but dress in t-shirts and drive modest cars. Saving money for their kid's college and their own retirement.
Sounds like a rare situation...and who saves money these days anyway. Material items is what people want...to keep up with the Jones'. Huge houses, flashy cars, 5-star restaurants, luxury suits at ball games, summer resorts, etc. Everyone wants a piece of the action, and 1700 new Millionaires are born everyday:
With this trend, the poor won't have a pot to piss in 😔