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> When you're in your twenties you should be spending that time really exploring and thinking about the things that give you meaning. Once you start growing up

> When you're in your twenties you should be spending that time really exploring and thinking about the things that give you meaning. Once you start growing up and living a life more you won't be able to do that again. -Digit CEO (from video) I hate the idea that once you leave college and get a job your life of having fun is over. As though fiscal irresponsibility is necessary for finding your life's "meaning" and you can only do that in the four years you spend at college. I really have to question someone that found their life's meaning at a point in their life where they couldn't bother to be financially responsible for themselves.

taurath 11y ago
If you want to make enough income to have financial security in the US in most industries that means taking a salaried job, and ~15 days of personal time off not including weekends and holidays. Its not that having to work 40 hours a week doesn't leave time enough to find your life's meaning, but its damn hard to do more than attend 2 major outside-of-norm events or go on any journeys that aren't majorly bookended by going back to work.
TeMPOraL 11y ago
I hate the other end of that idea (reality) - that you have to grow up and be responsible and stop having fun or be spontaneous in your life, because from now on it's career, marriage, career, kids, career, retirement and death.
- eanzenberg 11y ago
  Which are all choices you make.
  - steve-howard 11y ago
    Career is certainly not a choice I make. It's a necessity. Hell, I'd probably enjoy it more if I didn't need it.
    - TeMPOraL 11y ago
      Same here. For me personally, any task can be turned from fun to misery by setting the single bit labeled "work".
forgottenpass 11y ago
I hate the idea that once you leave college and get a job your life of having fun is over. As though fiscal irresponsibility is necessary for finding your life's "meaning" It's not necessary, it's just that the market forces have made it such that fiscal responsibility is tightly bound to spending most your productive time, energy and drive at working. People barely have time to for family next to work. Think the market allocates people time for existential searching? That doesn't make someone else money; so, no, it doesn't.
- nostrademons 11y ago
  It's not, though - market forces have made it such that fiscal responsibility is bound toward making more money than you spend. And you make money by generating value for other people. If you can generate & capture more money than the average person captures, but live like the average person, then the surplus becomes available for any existential searching you want.
salmonet 11y ago
I interpreted that as meaning that it's just easier to be a free spirit when you are younger. One you are married/have kids/get older, options start closing.
snowwrestler 11y ago
I think you got this backward. "Having fun" is not the same thing as "exploring and thinking about the things that give you meaning." In fact those thoughts are opposite. The point is to start living intentionally. If you know what you value and want in life, it's easier to set goals and meet them--whether it's your education, your job, where you live, your finances, what experiences you have, etc. People who don't start thinking about this when they're young might find later on in life that they've drifted into a situation that's hard to get out of. Like it or not, a lot of barriers are lower when you're 20--physical, cultural, financial. Once you're a lot older, there is no way to go back.

taurath 11y ago

If you want to make enough income to have financial security in the US in most industries that means taking a salaried job, and ~15 days of personal time off not including weekends and holidays. Its not that having to work 40 hours a week doesn't leave time enough to find your life's meaning, but its damn hard to do more than attend 2 major outside-of-norm events or go on any journeys that aren't majorly bookended by going back to work.

TeMPOraL 11y ago

I hate the other end of that idea (reality) - that you have to grow up and be responsible and stop having fun or be spontaneous in your life, because from now on it's career, marriage, career, kids, career, retirement and death.

eanzenberg 11y ago
Which are all choices you make.
- steve-howard 11y ago
  Career is certainly not a choice I make. It's a necessity. Hell, I'd probably enjoy it more if I didn't need it.
  - TeMPOraL 11y ago
    Same here. For me personally, any task can be turned from fun to misery by setting the single bit labeled "work".

forgottenpass 11y ago

I hate the idea that once you leave college and get a job your life of having fun is over. As though fiscal irresponsibility is necessary for finding your life's "meaning" It's not necessary, it's just that the market forces have made it such that fiscal responsibility is tightly bound to spending most your productive time, energy and drive at working. People barely have time to for family next to work. Think the market allocates people time for existential searching? That doesn't make someone else money; so, no, it doesn't.

nostrademons 11y ago
It's not, though - market forces have made it such that fiscal responsibility is bound toward making more money than you spend. And you make money by generating value for other people. If you can generate & capture more money than the average person captures, but live like the average person, then the surplus becomes available for any existential searching you want.

salmonet 11y ago

I interpreted that as meaning that it's just easier to be a free spirit when you are younger. One you are married/have kids/get older, options start closing.

snowwrestler 11y ago

I think you got this backward. "Having fun" is not the same thing as "exploring and thinking about the things that give you meaning." In fact those thoughts are opposite. The point is to start living intentionally. If you know what you value and want in life, it's easier to set goals and meet them--whether it's your education, your job, where you live, your finances, what experiences you have, etc. People who don't start thinking about this when they're young might find later on in life that they've drifted into a situation that's hard to get out of. Like it or not, a lot of barriers are lower when you're 20--physical, cultural, financial. Once you're a lot older, there is no way to go back.