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What's the point of productivity? What if I just want to enjoy myself as much as I can? Spending my time playing games and reading stories and learning new thin
by dinosaurdynasty 4y ago
What's the point of productivity? What if I just want to enjoy myself as much as I can? Spending my time playing games and reading stories and learning new things and such sounds pretty great.
And as someone who is trying to do early retirement, the main reason is so I can own myself... I'll never have enough energy to do everything I want, even without a day job taking a tremendous amount of it.
And just to add another anecdote: I quit my job for 9 months (for burnout). I never felt the need to "go back to work" other than the bank account running out.
- hamburglar 4y agoI think for me, I enjoy a sense of accomplishment, but real accomplishments don’t tend to come without the motivation of others depending on the product of my work. Feels like a personal failing, but I’m old enough to recognize I should just accept it. I could retire right now* but I like being kept busy because of this (and having my retirement account get bigger doesn’t hurt either). * kind of lousy timing, money-wise, so it’s fortuitous that I don’t have the urge to start burning through the retirement fund yet.
- dinosaurdynasty 4y agoI've never gotten a sense of accomplishment from work that lasted more than a couple hours, so I can't really relate