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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You are right, but if you don’t have someone else footing the bill, being on call all day every day is what is required.
Or you will be replaced. Heck, I am in my 40’s and have no illusions that I won’t be replaced one of these days, but I don’t have rich parents or spouse to bail me out.
Work is work. Everyone wants to lie in a bed of roses, but no one thinks about the thorns.
True, but the other side of the coin is that if you don’t “do extra” for free, you may be out of a job rather quickly.
Perception matters. Often more than reality.
My wife does freelance PR. Started her own company after working for 35k a year at a TV station. Her first year she made 300k. Second year 250k. Instead of resting on her laurels she expanded, but unfortunately it didn’t work out, then in 2006 she started to lose customers as the financial crisis started to rear its ugly head.
Today she still has her company and is making decent money. She works 12-16 hours a day. Since both of us are digital nomads, we can work from anywhere. Our goal is to do what the millennial is doing.
Back in the 80’s I remember a lot of my fellow jarheads had shirts with that saying on. I don’t think it would go over well in the PC present...
Right...if she is in Manhattan, it is expensive there, so she could have made money I suppose, and might be used to working under a high salary/high expense model.
If you can pay for it, go for it!
I made choices also. Had a chance to make a lot more money, but staid in Iowa for the kids. Never get an executive jet, but I do have three weeks vacation.
I was raised with the expectation that as a man, you must work. Always. Till you can’t.
Grandpa retired in his 80’s, Dad in his 70’s. I have a goal of 69. Which would be the youngest of any man in my family.
You wouldn’t be replaced if it wasn’t for everyone doing too much. Everyone is working harder, longer, more, more, more. People rarely sit down to dinner together. It’s because we all expect more. Bigger houses, better furniture, faster cars,. I realize our economy is built on a consumption base, but we have to be ready to pay that price. She wasn’t. That doesn’t mean she has rich parent. It may mean she worked so many hours there was no time to spend what she was making. So she takes a year or so off, living off of her savings and then gets a regular job that may not pay as much, but allows her to have a life.
When you burn out.....you just stop.
The more you squander daddy's money now dear, the less you'll get when he dies.
“Kind of sad for them, actually. Missing out on the satisfaction of a job well done and knowing you truly earned your pay that day.”
Agree. They’ve had low-homework school, online cut/paste homework, blue ribbons for showing up, accountability-avoiding environments, baseless self-esteem.
Our pubic school teachers should just be ashamed of themselves. But, then, they killed shame.
The guy in the article worked in computer software sales making six figures and was top sales person for three years. That sounds like a pretty good fire for a 26 year old. Now he’s traveled the world, and does plan on having a family and “normal” life later. I could sure see his point about looking ahead to a lifetime of sitting behind a desk with two weeks vacation a year and not being comfortable with that future.
If it’s not Daddy; it’s “SugarDaddy”....
Certainly not ‘Burned Out’ in any way that is even close to reality. These people are checking out of career-oriented positions (no fast-food workers in the article) in their mid-20’s...25, 26? After having probably graduated from a college at 22, 23?
So having worked in the real world for 2 1/2 to 3 1/2 years in positions that really weren’t all that mentally taxing (no Manhattan Trial Lawyers or Nuclear Physicists in the bunch...salesguy and fashion design (nothing wrong with those positions, just not top of the charts credentials needed)...they check out?
Sorry...with that back story, you will *never* work for me. I can’t trust you not to bail out on me after I invest the first 2 to 3 years getting you up to speed; resume, meet trash can.
We are a small company, but we hire collage grads and have a special training program to teach them Information Technology skills. These folks excel in every regard - motivation, work ethic (in our work, 12 hour days are not uncommon)congeniality, aptitude, and team work.
They also highly appreciate working with us fossils to pick up tricks of the trade. I’d say that they are hardly a pampered group.
One key predictor of their motivation is the fact that they typically have technology, math, and engineering degrees rather than the typical liberal SJW stuff.
That’s fantastic! A truly inspiring life story really the American dream!!!!
Here’s hoping we can pass that down to future generations!
MAGA!
I sure didn’t see any whining from her in the article, or anything to imply that she is a parasite. Assume much? Or just bitter?
When I was growing up, people in the area talked about the “Pittsburgh work ethic.”
Now, we’re lucky to see a work ethic. Up and down the workforce chain. Managers have a “work ethic” of sorts, mostly taken up with dealing with micromanaging corporate overlords. Workers have a “work ethic” in the sense a number of them have to have two (or more) PT jobs that pay enough to live.
Something has been broken in the American social contract.
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