Posted on 04/28/2012 8:30:41 AM PDT by reaganaut1
I've gotten in more than a couple arguments about this topic, but I agree with you. I want to be a millionaire (and I think I'd be a really good one, too,) but I've never taken the financial risks, gotten the education, or wanted to work the hours to make it happen.
Some people are just more ambitious than others.
bogus study again stating how much better the "productive" class is then all of us peons....
maybe, just maybe, the guy picking up garbage needs to have more "leisure" time than the rich banker dining on prawns and steak for a lunch time "business" meeting...
physical work is exhausting...physically exhausting...
“physical work is exhausting...physically exhausting...”
You’re talking to someone who worked in a factory all his adult life. That’s why I retired as soon as I could.
I have never had a job that wasn’t physically exhausting or at least demanding.
Prior to factory work, I was in the military for 4 years and not with a “desk job”, prior to that I did farm work from the time I was about 10 years old, mostly in the cotton fields.
I’ll be 67 years old in June and my wife and I are adopting 2 more kids, ages 13 and 12, they have lived with us for the last 4 years, final adoption hearing is May 11 th. We need and love them and they need and love us but sometimes I think I was born tired. God has blessed us with 4 adult children, 14 grand children and 4 great grand children. Our oldest is 44 years old and she, along with our other grown kids are thrilled to be getting a new little brother and sister.
P.S. I’ll be writing a “vanity post”, with pictures when the adoption is final, If it’s OK, I’ll put you on my “to ping list” when I post it, I want everybody to know about our “new children”.
You got that exactly right! The only time I can get away from the office and be unreachable is when I take the family to the cabin in the U.P.
No cellphone signal, no 4G signal, and without the dish there's no TV either. I don't have a hardline for phone up there but I do maintain a minimum bandwidth DSL connection that I do not speak of with my employer. It's well known when I say I'm headed "up north" that I'll be unreachable.
I relish my breaks from technology. It's my 'decompress' time.
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