Spanish Youths Take to the Streets

[MOBIUS]

I don't struggle to earn money, which is why I only need to work 3 days a week to be comfortably off.

[Zoetstofzoetje]

There's one difference between your and my approach. You need to keep working three days per week for the rest of your life. I can retire yesterday.

[Zoetstofzoetje]

That is, unless the euro crashes

[MOBIUS]

You don't know a blind thing about me, so you aren't in a position to claim things that are utterly false. We clearly have different priorities, which you can't seem to get your head around...

[Zoetstofzoetje]

Well I can only work based on stereotypes, I guess you being Welsh means those sheep in your meadow rarely get a good night's rest....

[Arrian]

There's one difference between your and my approach. You need to keep working three days per week for the rest of your life. I can retire yesterday.

Sure, that's another approach. Work like a maniac and then retire early. I have a close relative who told me that was his approach. I don't know specifics, but he's made a ton of money. Still working (like a maniac). Why? Expenditures rise to meet income. House in Tahoe, House in Florida, etc etc.

If he'd actually done what he'd said: work like crazy, make his money, retire at 35, ok. Well, I suppose he has another year, since he's 34 now. We'll see. I can respect that approach. Everybody's different. I strongly suspect, however, that he won't retire particularly early.

-Arrian

[Arrian]

Funny how it's always the people who struggle to earn money, who claim that money is not that important

Oh, and by the way:

Moby makes good money, AFAIK. I know I do. I'm doing juuuuusst fine, thanks.

-Arrian

[C0ckney]

Sure, that's another approach. Work like a maniac and then retire early. I have a close relative who told me that was his approach. I don't know specifics, but he's made a ton of money. Still working (like a maniac). Why? Expenditures rise to meet income. House in Tahoe, House in Florida, etc etc.

everyone has their own approach to life, but honestly, i never understood that one. you work like a dog during your 20s, 30s and 40s, maybe to retire at 50/55. sure if you focus on money for all that time then you'll be rich, but that's the best years of your life gone. you won't get them back.

If he'd actually done what he'd said: work like crazy, make his money, retire at 35, ok. Well, I suppose he has another year, since he's 34 now. We'll see. I can respect that approach. Everybody's different. I strongly suspect, however, that he won't retire particularly early.

-Arrian

and that's the other thing. if you retire at say 40, what are you going to do, play golf for forty years?

[MikeH]

A large part might also be the idea that work is a necessary evil rather than a goal in itself. I struggle with employees that hit their monthly target during the first week and then slack off until the first day of the following month.

Either:

Why have they got such ridiculously low targets then?

Or:

Good for them! Great work life balance.

[Zoetstofzoetje]

and that's the other thing. if you retire at say 40, what are you going to do, play golf for forty years?

yes, that's an issue. you get bored. everyone i knew that got rich early in life and retired, went back to work.

[KrazyHorse]

There's one difference between your and my approach. You need to keep working three days per week for the rest of your life. I can retire yesterday.

Magic bean farming working out well for you?

[Arrian]

if you retire at say 40, what are you going to do, play golf for forty years?

I'd be fine. I'm dabble in this or that, but I assure you I'd be fine. My wife is more likely to bored, as she's the more driven worker type. Still, we'd fill the time.

The person who actually does what my relative was talking about (work 80-hr weeks, kick ass, make millions) is the type who gets bored and ends up working more. My type... doesn't make the millions in the first place. I'll do fine, but I'm not retiring anytime soon unless I win the lottery. Which would be really hard, since I don't play the tax on people who failed statistics.

-Arrian

[Dinner]

Money is important but it isn't everything. It's definitely worth working hard to get though.

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

The role of Jack Handy will be filled by....