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I realized something this morning: when I spend almost all of my life doing something I don't want to do (working a full-time job... Leave the house at 7 am and

• alister 16y ago
  I kept reading that you were "passionate about recreational consumption", but then the rest of the sentence didn't make any sense. A single comma makes a big difference to understanding what you meant: "When I have as much time as I want to work on stuff I like and am passionate about, recreational consumption does almost nothing for me."
• mkramlich 16y ago
  I've had a similar experience. When I've had work lifestyles where I had to get up early in the morning, long commute, bureaucrapritude job, long commute back, get back late, but every 2 weeks get a huge paycheck, I'd end up spending way too much on discretionary consumption & toys to make me "happy". When I've had more happiness-oriented work lifestyle phases, with no commute, no bureaucrapritude, but smaller or more irregular paychecks and less "security" I've ended up spending way less money on unimportant stuff, saved way more, and was way more happy in a substantive sense.