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How old are your friends who are thriving as independents? The "freedom and opportunity" are a great deal less glamorous for those in their late 40s who are jus
by osipov 18y ago
How old are your friends who are thriving as independents? The "freedom and opportunity" are a great deal less glamorous for those in their late 40s who are just trying to raise kids and provide for the family...
- larrykubin 18y agoYou mean there are people who don't like freedom and opportunity? I am doing well working independently in my 20's, but I hope when I'm in my late 40's I still appreciate freedom and opportunity. I would think that new opportunities would be beneficial for me, my kids, and my family as well.
- dionidium 18y agoYou mean there are people who don't like freedom and opportunity? What do the words "freedom" and "opportunity" imply? The freedom to take interesting jobs for which you "get to" travel isn't much of an opportunity if your goal is to spend every night with your family.
- larrykubin 18y agoFreedom != travelling and having a salaried job != being able to spend more time with family. For me, I have the _freedom_ to stay at home with my wife, and I see her and spend time with her at 2pm when she gets home from her job every day. I know others who work salaried jobs who get home at 2am.
- alex_c 18y agoYou are implying that you appreciate the freedom and opportunity to succeed - of course, who wouldn't! However, I don't know if you can separate that from the freedom and opportunity to fail (can you have good without evil?) How much are you factoring that into your calculations for your late 40's and beyond?
- jscn 18y agoLet me try and make sense of this: freedom and opportunity to succeed is good, but entails possibility of failure, which is bad. You're saying you don't want the freedom and opportunity to do either when in your late 40s and beyond? Or are you saying that you want to have the opportunity to succeed, but not to fail, when you're in your late 40s? Didn't you just say that's not possible? I'm confused...
- alex_c 18y agoI honestly don't know how I will think in 20 years - that obviously depends on what will happen between now and then. What I'm trying to say is that as people get older and have a family to support, they might get more risk averse, and begin to prefer safer options (which likely involve less freedom and opportunity). The cost of failure then is much higher than the cost of failure now.