Does quitting your job make you happy?
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wrote on 25 Jun 2021, 21:08 last edited by Mik
I liked it. Pretty sure George did too. Can’t speak for anyone else.
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wrote on 25 Jun 2021, 21:09 last edited by
@mik said in Does quitting your job make you happy?:
I liked. Pretty sure George did too. Can’t speak for anyone else.
Never, EVER, been happier since I retired.
I suppose that's different from "quitting," though. It's been a damn fine 5 years.
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@mik said in Does quitting your job make you happy?:
I liked. Pretty sure George did too. Can’t speak for anyone else.
Never, EVER, been happier since I retired.
I suppose that's different from "quitting," though. It's been a damn fine 5 years.
wrote on 25 Jun 2021, 21:29 last edited by@george-k said in Does quitting your job make you happy?:
Never, EVER, been happier since I retired.
I have non-job related issues that are keeping me from being happy, but even with that, quitting work was one of the happiest days of my life.
I don't see how any "experts" can presume to know anything about the validity of Mik's, George's or my reactions to quitting our jobs. How would they know???
I have some experience with this Sonja guy, and I'm not impressed.
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wrote on 25 Jun 2021, 21:31 last edited by
It's pretty simple math. Have some things going on that you find more meaningful, and make sure your finances don't make you slip back down Maslow's hierarchy.
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wrote on 25 Jun 2021, 22:53 last edited by
Give up an indoor office for an airplane cockpit?
Does that make you happy?
Don't even ask.
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wrote on 27 Jun 2021, 10:54 last edited by
Could you all answer the same at ages 20 to 40?
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wrote on 27 Jun 2021, 11:35 last edited by
At 40, yes.
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wrote on 27 Jun 2021, 11:41 last edited by
IMO happiness is mostly about crushing one’s enemies, driving them before you, and hearing the lamentations of their women.
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wrote on 27 Jun 2021, 11:42 last edited by
I don’t know. For a lot of guys their identity (in the pre-woke sense) is tied up in their employment and/or it’s effects (ability to support a family, etc).
I can’t say I didn’t notice that at times, after hanging up the saddle at 44.
My increasingly significant role at the Foundation fixed all that. lol
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IMO happiness is mostly about crushing one’s enemies, driving them before you, and hearing the lamentations of their women.
wrote on 27 Jun 2021, 11:44 last edited by@horace said in Does quitting your job make you happy?:
IMO happiness is mostly about crushing one’s enemies, driving them before you, and hearing the lamentations of their women.
Tales of Horace campfire stories.
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wrote on 27 Jun 2021, 11:49 last edited by
@loki said in Does quitting your job make you happy?:
Could you all answer the same at ages 20 to 40?
Very much not at 20. I had high hopes for landing in a promising work life, but poor planning. By 40 those hopes had shrunk somewhat but not altogether. And so it went. I needed to think differently and know more than I did, and things just didn't work out.