Quote from: bitgolden on August 02, 2022, 08:39:03 PM

Quote from: tygeade on August 02, 2022, 01:19:21 PM

Quote from: qwertyup23 on August 01, 2022, 11:40:10 AM

Exploring alternative means of income does not necessarily involve getting a new job or venturing into a new asset but it also involves limiting nonsensical expenditures on your part. I think it is essential that people should determine their wants versus their needs; the latter being the more essential in terms of priority in spending compared to the former.

If a person can determine and check his expenditures, he will also realize the things that are not worth spending on, thus saving more cash in the process.

This is what I used to think as well. I always looked for more income because I believed that if I could make a tons of money then I could retire easily and I wouldn't have this problem. However, soon I realized that while I was working hard to make a lot of money for myself, then it hit me, I was missing life and I was spending 20 hours a day making money that I wouldn't be even spending.

This is why I need to just reel that back in, and hope that I didn't do anything wrong to my health or my mind, and I am working a normal job now. I love the fact that I do not have to worry about anything extra anymore and I love my job anyway, so it doesn't feel like "work" after all. I want to write a book one day, maybe I will work hard on that again but that’s it.

That is a good approach but there are people who love their jobs so much that they actually consider that as a life and they enjoy it. I know a friend who is a lawyer, and he works day and night on being the best lawyer he could be, and that means very late hours as well. He is a single guy so there is nobody to go back to at home, actually his home is quite like an office with just one room for a bed, because all he does is work on his cases. He makes a ton of money, he could literally retire at 35, but he doesn't consider it as a money thing. He loves winning a case and that's all he works for, he wants to keep on winning forever and as long as he does, he is going to do it.

Without a doubt there are people that love their jobs but for the majority their jobs are just a means to an end, they need money and as such they exchange their time for money, they do not really find any kind of fulfillment out of it and I do not see anything wrong with that, after all I have always thought that fulfillment should be found outside of your job as the last thing I want to do is to work for the rest of my life, and if anything I want to retire as early as possible.