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I would hope that Amazon would be smart enough to let someone like Tim semi-retire. I'm just a few years younger and I completely sympathize with what he says a
by rootbear 8y ago
I would hope that Amazon would be smart enough to let someone like Tim semi-retire. I'm just a few years younger and I completely sympathize with what he says about being tired after a full day at work. I have a raft of project I'm not working on, largely due to not having the energy I once had. Maybe working 30 hours, or 20 hours, a week should be an option for more people. I would seriously consider working half time if I still got health care. I expect health care will keep me on the job until age 65 even if I have the money to quit sooner.
- cerberusss 8y agoI think the problem is not the amount of hours per week, but the hours per day. It could be useful to start at 10 AM and leave at 5 PM or something. That way, you can take a nap before taking care of dinner and stuff.
- ghaff 8y agoThe problem for me--and I've thought about this--is that shorter days wouldn't really buy me anything (I already have a lot of flexibility) and a 4 or 3 day week would only buy me, well, longer weekends. Those would be nice but nothing life-changing. What I'd really like to do is take regular extended vacations to go hiking, etc. And, once you're heading off for a month here and there, it's really hard to keep up with what's going on/being someone people can depend on/etc. It is possible in some roles where things don't change all that much, you don't need to deal with the business side, and tasks are fairly short in duration. (I knew someone who worked as a lawyer for around 6 months a year.) But for me, disappearing for a month or two at a time and unplugging would be hard to pull off while doing what I do now.