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> Ultimately for me, that’s what financial independence is all about, and why it is all worth it. It’s not about sitting on a beach and drinking your life away.

> Ultimately for me, that’s what financial independence is all about, and why it is all worth it. It’s not about sitting on a beach and drinking your life away. It’s about having the freedom to pursue your life purpose, whatever it may be, and however impractical it may be. This is just my personal opinion, but this is an ass backwards way of doing things and it gets me frothing at the mouth. If it's your life purpose, DO it already. Live lean if you have to, become a cockroach if you must, but let that purpose ROAR out of you. Don't sit around accruing meaningless tokens, becoming an old fuck with all of the juice of life wrung out of you like some decrepit mop. Sincerely, a decrepit mop.

ahelwer 5y ago
I think it’s difficult to discover your “life purpose” while still working full time. Unless you’re anomalously lucky to be exposed to various subfields at your job, it requires a fair amount of leisure and self-directed tinkering (months to years). Quitting your job and living like a cockroach to find yourself or whatever is a pretty big sell. I also suspect this process requires a baseline level of comfort and freedom from stress but can’t say authoritatively.
andreilys 5y ago
The beauty of high tech is that you can achieve financially independent within your mid-to-late 30s depending on how well you do. Conversely, I've seen those that "pursue their passion" end up being bitter and cynical when they don't make it. They end up working one dead-end job after another, hoping to one day become a famous writer/actor/singer/etc. Eventually they realize they don't have what it takes and are now stuck working into their 50s/60s. Sure some small pct end up being successful but the majority end up being in the same corporate trap that they originally eschewed, albeit with more debt and a more precarious financial situation.

ahelwer 5y ago

I think it’s difficult to discover your “life purpose” while still working full time. Unless you’re anomalously lucky to be exposed to various subfields at your job, it requires a fair amount of leisure and self-directed tinkering (months to years). Quitting your job and living like a cockroach to find yourself or whatever is a pretty big sell. I also suspect this process requires a baseline level of comfort and freedom from stress but can’t say authoritatively.

andreilys 5y ago

The beauty of high tech is that you can achieve financially independent within your mid-to-late 30s depending on how well you do. Conversely, I've seen those that "pursue their passion" end up being bitter and cynical when they don't make it. They end up working one dead-end job after another, hoping to one day become a famous writer/actor/singer/etc. Eventually they realize they don't have what it takes and are now stuck working into their 50s/60s. Sure some small pct end up being successful but the majority end up being in the same corporate trap that they originally eschewed, albeit with more debt and a more precarious financial situation.