ER is a goal I aim to miss. I think it would be the most boring thing in the world to sit at home all day watching your fingernails grow. Life without work is like cancer without cure. One can only rot. I hope more people would see life as a celebration of work -- and stop worrying about at what age they're going to "retire".
Cheers! We need more people to work for eternity and never collect social security or pension payments.ER is a goal I aim to miss. I think it would be the most boring thing in the world to sit at home all day watching your fingernails grow. Life without work is like cancer without cure. One can only rot. I hope more people would see life as a celebration of work -- and stop worrying about at what age they're going to "retire".
ER is a goal I aim to miss. I think it would be the most boring thing in the world to sit at home all day watching your fingernails grow. Life without work is like cancer without cure. One can only rot. I hope more people would see life as a celebration of work -- and stop worrying about at what age they're going to "retire".
ER is a goal I aim to miss.
I think it would be the most boring thing in the world to sit at home all day watching your fingernails grow. Life without work is like cancer without cure. One can only rot. I hope more people would see life as a celebration of work -- and stop worrying about at what age they're going to "retire".
I'm conflicted.ER is a goal I aim to miss. I think it would be the most boring thing in the world to sit at home all day watching your fingernails grow. Life without work is like cancer without cure. One can only rot. I hope more people would see life as a celebration of work -- and stop worrying about at what age they're going to "retire".
I agree with you. However, if I were advising a young person in the USA as to where to get a job, I would recommend the federal government. That is one of the few places that will be able to provide a persons with a 'middle class' life - security, opportunities, health care, pension (and early retirement?), reasonable working hours and environment. We are following Europe - large government, health care, high taxes, systemic high unemployment, large debt, VAT.
In retrospect, I may have made the mistake to reject an offer for a GS-7 position 32 years ago - bummer.When I graduated from college 30 years ago, the government was a "job of last resort" - private industry had higher pay, more challenging work, more dynamic environment and comparable benefits.
We don't need more government workers because of the services they provide. The government needs to create jobs because the private sector isn't. We've done this for so long the voting block of gov't workers is so big it's political suicide to stand against it. The private sector will continue to shrink and gov't payrolls will increase, or unemployment will rise. So far any gov't take backs I've seen in pensions have only affected new hires. Try and take something back that was promised and we will be in the streets like Greece.