Posted on 07/26/2018 6:17:20 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Sarah Solomon had a pretty sweet life. The 20-something publicist was always out at fashion events, dinners and parties — and even hung out with John Legend during Fashion Week.
“It was definitely New York glamourous — the black dress, leather pants and high heels, and an hour putting on my makeup,” says Solomon. “Anyone would think I had a really fun life, meeting cool people and celebrities.”
But she yearned for something more and resented only having two weeks of vacation a year. So, last August, she quit her seemingly great job at a plum downtown p.r. firm.
“I wanted to travel more — I didn’t want to have to ask for time off and grovel for extra days, you know?” says Solomon, now 25 and living in a rental house in Kauai, Hawaii, overlooking the beach.
Over the past 10 months, she’s scaled volcanoes in Guatemala, soaked up the waterfalls of Bali, Indonesia, and basked on glorious beaches halfway around the world. She gets by doing freelance p.r. work on the road, so long as she can get decent Wi-Fi in paradise.
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Yep, Bank of Dad
Adults with responsibilities--most adults, anyway--don't often have the luxury of checking out of the rate race periodically. We have important jobs where we're building things that take time: a family, a mortgage, a career that consists of long-term projects (not just 6-month PR campaigns), taking part in next next quarter's financial earnings, next year's financial plan, building a supply chain for next year's model, and so on.
Good for this woman, for calling her own shots; it may work for a while in your 20's, and maybe in our early retirement years, but I don't think that can work for the majority of workers.
I think you guys are missing the point. These people are beginning to understand the price they pay for the lifestyle they were leading. People used to be able to get away from work. You had an actual life. It’s not normal to work 24/7
She’s married. Her husband is paying for it, IIRC.
I agree. You’re only young once. Go out and have fun. When you start bringing kids into the world, then it’s time to buckle down and be responsible.
There’s nobody on their death bed who will look back and say, “I wish I spent my 20s chained to a desk.”
The third which did not was pretty much evenly divided between the wealthy, whose parents were able to make up the difference, and the poor who got a combination of government grants, do nothing work-study jobs and the like.
Of course ... just don't ask me to help pay your way when you're old, decrepit, and broke after I worked my ass off for 40+ years.
There’s some jealousy here to be sure - we’d all love to live this life. But she’s your typical Millennial hypocrite. She’s a one percenter who obviously has here had to struggle in her life to make ends meet and makes a ton of wealth that she spends on extravagances and probably shows up at all the appropriate protest marches because “she cares”
In other words - entitled, spoiled brat.
butterface?
“Over the past 10 months, she’s scaled volcanoes in Guatemala, soaked up the waterfalls of Bali, Indonesia, and basked on glorious beaches halfway around the world.”
These are the kind of shiftless “adventure tourists” who wind up falling off a cliff in some exotic far away shithole or stepping on a stonefish in Australia. Meanwhile, normal people tough out their despised jobs, and raise and support their families. She’s getting money from somewhere.
I was the top performer in my department in Q2. I'm not some layabout and I'm capable of getting plenty done. But I'm not going to give something for nothing so that my boss's boss's boss can go on an even better vacation next year while I get a subscription to jelly of the month club.
in a small business setting or my own gig, different story.
So these young people, who have apparently saved money or have sources of income while they travel, are ditching work to go to Bali or India or other places. They have no family responsibilities since they don’t have children.
Is this really a major trend, or just a human interest story about a tiny number if New York based yuppies?
Burn out is burn out. You can’t judge what causes some one burn out.
Not taking anything away from anyone who has fought or lived in war zones, each person’s mind handles stress and information or events that cause them stress chemical reactions and then physical symptoms differently.
Nurses, doctors burn out take drugs etc to try to hold up under pressure of their job. Cashiers at stores burn out if they are in busy stores constant flow of people everyday. Having to be “up” all the time and look just right can be mentally and physically burn out too.
People have made income vs lifestyle choices since time immemorial. I certainly have, and I’ve made different choices at different stages of life. Being an older parent with two adopted kids shoved my life course somewhat off the standard path. As long as people own their decisions, don’t fall into the entitlement mentality, and don’t resent the success of people who make other choices, there’s nothing wrong with marching to a different drummer.
ONLY two weeks of vacation per year?!
I’m grateful for ONE!
I don’t know how much money this person made but that sounds like a bad investment.
I too traveled a lot in my twenties for work. I lived out of a suitcase for two years on per diem and essentially banked my salary. I took that money and bought an apartment building in Boston.
Choices.
You make a good point. I’ve suffered burnout before and it’s BAD.
I disagree. Social Security, or the premise of it, depends on a lifetime of work. Of earning a paycheck, paying your way through life, of paying for housing, raising a family, making sacrifices in order to save now, so that you might be able to enjoy your future...when you can't work because of older age.
I don't think most young adults recognize what Social Security is, because they haven't worked enough, paid enough taking care of themselves or their families. They don't yet appreciate that they too, will be old someday, and that they may not be able to physically or mentally work.
Because they don't yet recognize what retirement is, what Social Security is (and let's face it, SS is not a magic bullet for retirement), they can't yet appreciate what it would mean to have a reduced, or even no SS benefit when they retire.
If I heard more of the millennial generation saying, "you know, I'm putting 10-15% of my paycheck into my retirement savings, and I'm contributing another 6.5% to SS...it'd sure be nice if I could see some of that when I'm ready to retire!" -- If I heard them saying that, then, I might feel sorry for them.
My son and his wife just left Brooklyn and moved to Chiang Mai, Thailand for 9 months (+/-) in June. They were tired of the rat race in NYC that bleeds you of every dollar you make and the difficulty of living in NY. They are both working remotely but the cost of living is so cheap, they don’t have to if they choose not to. The rent on their new furnished apartment is $550/ month in a gated, new community. Their attitude was “if not now, when?” as a young married couple. They spent last weekend in Cambodia viewing the Angkor Wat temples. They wanted to do it before they had kids. When they come back to the US, they are not returning to NY.
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