a $92K annual drawdown on $2.3M. Not shabby, but neither is it anywhere near what I was making when I was a wage slave. And I ain't typical retirement age yet, so allowances need be made to extend the principal that many more years.
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Spot on!
Steve Jobs once said: "For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something."
Calling yourself a wage slave for too long means you really need to change something in your life. Not all people can achieve getting enjoyment from work.
There should be some choice in the kinds of work that we do,
Probably fuck you status continues to be somewhat about having the option to do stuff that others may or may not agree with because it is your choice to engage in such activity(ies), and not strictly something(s) that you are doing because you have to in order to feel monetarily comfortable.
Well, yah. My last job, most of my time was spent in various industry consortia and standards bodies, developing the specifications and standards to which the entire industry adheres to. I really did enjoy the work. But my wages being paid by one of the corporations developing products that adhere to those standards and specifications, my daily priorities were set by that employing corporation.
So once my future economic condition seemed certain, I tendered my resignation. And continued participating -- on a personal basis -- in the various consortia and standards bodies. Did that for another year on my own dime. Just buttoning up the architectures of the standards in which I had a vested interest.
Now I'm done with that too. I follow the developments from afar, but no longer drive them. And spend significant time upon avocation and hobbies.
Sometimes new chapters open, but never really stops some of the reminiscing. Surely, I am glad to move on from some of my earlier positions, but there can still be some good memories about the good ole days, whether those memories relate to some of the duties, or the relationships with workers or just the fact that we were younger back then... hahahaha
And, sometimes any of us might not be able to tell certain stories, such as "I remember when... blah, blah, blah" if we might be outside of an audience who might be able to relate to such a story.... Some stories just don't work well or even at all with certain audiences.
Some other factors could be speculating about:
1) "if I knew then what I know now........"
or
2) "if I had accumulated the same amount of wealth then as I have now......."
or sadder
3) "I wished that now I had the energy that I had back then...... "
You might have some other examples of what ifs... or just ways to attempt to learn how to go forward now based on what you may have learned and/or experienced in the past... and some of the details of those memories might fade a bit, too... or even considering which parts are important... and might keep coming back into memory.