The next decade....what's in store?
Musings of a yamfooted traveller still trying to shake off those last 20 pounds as she treks across the Caribbean
I try to tell people all the while that you must live the kind of life you want to live right now. All those people who kill up themselves at work and literally kill themselves before they ready, through stress which then leads to all kind of illnesses, what is that for?
You miss out on the enjoying of life, chasing the stresses of work. And then, is only when you nearly leave this Earth that you realize what is important, and that maybe it wasn't working a 70 hour week!
Anyway, this gentlemen got wise after he nearly died in a gas explosion.. It took that to make him wake up and smell the cofee.....or is it the rosies? Well, smell whatever it is you want to smell, but smell it now!
In my present contract, I work 9 months out of the year. If my employers had offered me the standard contract with just 3 or 4 weeks vacation, I would have said no. I like my job very much, but there is more to life than work.
Posted by yamfoot at September 10, 2006 05:50 AMYammie, where can I get a contract like that, and still get the same 12 months salary. I'd resign in a heartbeat.
You're right though.
Posted by: Gela at September 10, 2006 11:04 AM9 months work - 9 months salary, but as my father always says, "money is a transient thing".
You could get by with 6 months salary per year I am sure. All that would happen is one would reexamine one's expenses and more things would become "would love to buy" than "need to buy".
You remember the student life.....
Posted by: Michelle at September 10, 2006 05:30 PMI wish I was in your situation right now. I think I could live with the 9 month salary. Strangely enough I find I use far less money when I'm not at work.
Posted by: scratchie at September 11, 2006 09:39 AMnegotiate it Scratchie. Negotiate to work a 4 day week. Of course they will adjust your pay accordingly but you will live.
Posted by: Michelle at September 11, 2006 06:52 PMInteresting concept... I wonder if I could swing it? And then what would I do with the extra free day? I dunno yet, but I know I can think of something... :-)
Posted by: Mad Bull at September 14, 2006 12:38 AM