Don’t really want to just grow old and die in my one-bedroom condo. I don’t really need the money. Driving around the world is super cheap.
Can’t you just drive around and like spend a couple of hours a day doing the job. Even if you don’t need it, would the money really make no difference to you at all? If the answer to that is that it wouldn’t, then I guess I understand.
I might. But I don’t want to lie to them about being out of the country. I haven’t approached them about it yet. Obviously I can’t say “Look it only takes me two hours a day to do my job, so this will be no problem.”
And there are times, like right now, where we’re releasing something new and I actually work a lot, which I like much better. So there would be times I need to hunker down in one place with good internet.
Nah, I’d be too nervous they’d hear someone yelling in Spanish on a zoom meeting or something. It would stress me out and not be worth it. I don’t have it in me to do that shit.
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If you don’t need the job why do you care. Worst that can happen is that they fire you and you’re in the same spot as if you just quit.
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Because I’d be racing through places trying to find some place with decent enough internet to make a meeting. Sometimes I get pulled into impromptu meetings. The internet sucks in a lot of Latin America. It would be a nightmare.
It has to be where they know I’m traveling around a lot and won’t always be available for meetings. You can’t drive at night, so a 40-hour week would mean I could only drive on weekends, which would put a damper on the trip for sure.
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I’d make some sacrifices for a 2hr/day, 5day/wk job where I’m making a pile of cash.
Not gonna matter when I’m on my deathbed. Nobody looks back and says, “I wish I worked a little more.”
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Yeah, like I said, if the money really doesn’t make a bit of difference, then even 2hrs a day is too much sacrifice.
It’s not about 2 hours a day at all. It’s about getting back out there while I’m still young enough to do adventurous things.
My mom has 4 brothers, all of them were basically done at 65-70. I just got back from a celebration of life for a guy who found out he had pancreatic cancer and was gone about a month later. I don’t want to wait until I’m 65.
Listen, this is not the humble barge thread suzzer
Edit: I literally posted this 1 second before the website updated with the edits adding in health/death info I’m sorry
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Yeah, I think that’s a good reason to do it also.
The only difference between you and me is that I’d try to work from Latin America until I got caught. And I wouldn’t try that hard to inconvenience myself. I’d definitely try a little, though.
You won’t even attempt to work during your travels, which is fine. We’re wired differently as far as that is concerned.
Melkerson keeps asking so I keep answering.
It’s not like I’m talking about retiring with $10M and playing golf every day in LA. I’m talking about stuff that costs $25k/year, $30k if you want to live high on the hog. Some do it for $15k.
I don’t even want to retire. I just want to finish South America and write another book. I may end up taking a year off if that works for my employer. I just haven’t approached them yet so I have no idea what they’ll go for. Once I approach them, everything changes.
This is my dilemma. Once I open that door I can’t shut it. And some suboptimal things will happen even if they say no and I accept it.
meant to say this last time but I was the same way by the way with meditation for a long time. My mind is usually a maelstrom in a way that isn’t conducive (or so I thought) to what I traditionally thought of as meditation. I’ve since learned there are a lot of ways to meditate and for me looking into things I previously saw as hocus pocus like certain forms of tibetan yoga (dream yoga is particularly interesting) all led me to a state where I can kinda steer my thoughts a lot better than I used to be able to. Before it probably would have been weed or alcohol. It’s very useful when I cannot sleep.
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Meditation doesn’t come easy to me but it is certainly helpful. It was hopeless to try to do it for a full 30 minutes or an hour, so I literally started doing just 1 minute each morning, and now am working my way up to 10. Even that little bit goes a long way toward calming the mind to begin the day.
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Yea that was the big thing for me. I guess it’s more like mindfulness training but even a few seconds here and there can be useful.
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Does not compute
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Had to turn news notifications off because each story now is stupider than the last