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I don't like working. I don't hate it, but if I had the opportunity to stop working forever (say 1/3 of my annual current tech salary, but with no work), I will
by borroka 5y ago
I don't like working. I don't hate it, but if I had the opportunity to stop working forever (say 1/3 of my annual current tech salary, but with no work), I will take it immediately.
Now, it does not mean I would stare at the ceiling all day, but "work", which entails some kind of responsibility I don't want to have, negotiations I don't want to deal with, meeting I would skip even if the alternative would be selling parking lot tickets, is of very little interest for me outside of dollars.
Years ago, I was chatting with a fellow academic and he told me he would still work even after retirement. "I'd like to work a bit", he said, "some new research here and there, a paper written in 3 years instead of 3 months". Lovely perspective, but that is not "work, that's a hobby.