You Couldn’t Pay me Enough to Keep Working
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Cynthia Blue on 14-12-2007
Tagged Under : Play, Relax, Work
So my friend at work yesterday was asking me some questions he thought would trip me up. But you see, I know myself pretty well and I know what I want out of life.
I am 40 years old now and I can, potentially, retire in 6 years. I’ll have 25 years in with the state, I’ll have to use my 401k to buy out 5 years, and then I’ll get 60% of my income as my pension.
So he asks me if I got $1 million a year right now to change jobs, but the caveat was I had to work until I was 60 years old, would I do it?
Would you?
He is 52 years old so he would take it right away, as he’d only have 8 more years to work. Me, however, I would have to work 20 more years. Sure, I’d be rich as hell, but in money only. Not as a human.
No amount of money would keep me working until I’m 60 years old. The more important things to me are quality time with my husband, my family, and my dogs. I would rather struggle with money and do the things I am passionate about, rather than work my whole life away. Neither my husband nor I value work all that much. I value personal growth, learning, loving and living life. And work does not figure into that. Sure I value my work, I enjoy my work, I love my coworkers and friends I have here. But I resent having to go to work 40 hours a week every week, work for ‘the man’ and not have the time for myself. I’m spoiled rotten and I know it.
And that’s why, too, I can’t be angry at my husband for not working. I really don’t care if he works or not. I do want us to have the income I have become accustomed to. Because, again, I’m spoiled rotten and I want to be able to do all the dog things I still do. And we need health insurance, of course.
When I am 90 and can no longer run with my dogs, I want to sit back on my comfy couch and reflect on my life, and know that I did exactly what I was passionate about doing. Work does not fall into that category. Because you know, we can’t take money with us. Maybe we can take our love and our passions with us. I hope we have a soul that will go onto something else when we die. And maybe, just maybe, that soul will have memories of all the wonderful things I did, and the amazing people I knew.
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Money is important to the point of having enough to live on; after that I want to have time to enjoy life. I would not take the money and be locked into working another 20 years. There is so much more to life.
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Hear Hear ! what a great post
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Money is important to the point of having enough to live on; after that I want to have time to enjoy life. I would not take the money and be locked into working another 20 years. There is so much more to life. <em>Chris's last blog post..<a href='http://www.ourdoglog.com/2007/12/pq-talking-pictu...rel="nofollow">PQ Talking Picture software</a></em>
hehe thanks!
Hi Chris. I agree, there is too much life to enjoy!
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Hear Hear ! what a great post
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hehe thanks!
Hi Chris. I agree, there is too much life to enjoy! I just wanted you to know, when you post your URL with the Alexa redirect, your comment falls into my spam filter, Akismet. If I have a couple of pages of spam, I don't have the time to go through them all and I just mass delete them. So if I have deleted any of your comments I apologize.
I couldn’t agree more. It might be different for people who have a profession they are passionate about, but for the vast majority of people, work is a necessary evil.
My husband has not worked in three years… long story… which makes money almost impossibly tight. That’s a big motivator in both of us doing paid blogging. Still for both of our mental heath and happiness, it has worked out nicely. We have plenty of time together. When we do have kids, it looks like they’ll have a stay at home Daddy which is pretty cool.
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I couldn't agree more. It might be different for people who have a profession they are passionate about, but for the vast majority of people, work is a necessary evil. My husband has not worked in three years… long story… which makes money almost impossibly tight. That's a big motivator in both of us doing paid blogging. Still for both of our mental heath and happiness, it has worked out nicely. We have plenty of time together. When we do have kids, it looks like they'll have a stay at home Daddy which is pretty cool. <em>Tina Kubala's last blog post..<a href='http://tinakubala.com/2007/12/16/mobile-phones-of...rel="nofollow">Mobile Phones Offer Privacy Bubble</a></em>
Hi Tina, yeah a house husband is kinda nice! And the paid blogging is great that it helps. It helps me so much too.
Hi Tina, yeah a house husband is kinda nice! And the paid blogging is great that it helps. It helps me so much too.