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Retired
Only job is to relax and enjoy life.
It's tougher than it sounds.
Only job is to relax and enjoy life.
It's tougher than it sounds.
Retired
Only job is to relax and enjoy life.
It's tougher than it sounds.
Both of my parents dropped out of PhD school with 5 master degrees between the two ofem. My dad was basically retired at 50 but he nor my mother work in fields that are even relevant to their multiple science and physics-based degrees. My dad worked for Cisco Systems as a project manager for at least a decade-plus and topped out around 200k a year and he was laid off when he was like 46? He just recently took a contract to work as a project manager at the tune of 250k a year for 3 years. My mom decided that anything that wasn't research was boring as fuck quit her job that paid six figures doing basically next to nothing. She took up circuit editing, opened her own business, and when she's got a ton of business she's making CEO money. Still, even though they have like 4 million in just liquid assets and I have no idea nor care to know how much they've saved, they don't seem content. I think the people who tend to be the most successful are so because they've become somewhat addicted to the intrinsic motivation behind working.How did you pull that off? Win the lotto? Finished working after 40 years? Inheritance?
@fingercuffs shit I feel old being that I'll be 27 when I get my BA in General Psychlogy and I'll be in my 30s by the time I get my postgraduate degree. One of my favorite professors finished her PhD at the age of like 72? Shit I've been in college since I dropped at out 15 and went back and forth with it and somehow managed to transfer to a private 4-year college with the highest employment rate in the country. I end up paying around the same you would pay for a state institution but the classes are never bigger than maybe 20 people? I had a chick in a human rights class that had like a 1.5 or 1.6 gpa and was somehow graduating with a BS in business and she had already been working at tesla making 80-85k a year. She once asked the professor if a D was a passing grade. It's a double-edged sword in what you major, you can focus on making money or focus on your interests but you gotta keep it real. Or you'll end up like a dude I know who got a master's degree in history yet he works as an electrician, and he probably makes more as an electrician than he would've ever made as a teacher unless he worked at a private university or something.Fair enough. Know that learning is life long and never ends. One day you'll have a chance to learn what you want and make a career from it. In university there were several sixty and seventy year olds that got degrees. Age doesn't mean shit. I'd much rather higher an older person than a pimple nosed bed wetter right out of college.
what's the weirdest shit you've come across doing that stuff?Both. Mainly office work now, but still do shop and installation.
25 yrs, strong union.How did you pull that off? Win the lotto? Finished working after 40 years? Inheritance?
Hell yes