re: Anyone else question what the meaning of life is after a vacation?

Young man you'll understand soon enough. Just keep working

All over it!

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I would take eking for survival rather than working my life away at least you have some cool experiences along the way.

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then what is stopping you from selling your house, buying an awesome tent, some fire arms, bow and other survival gear and heading into the Canadian Wilderness or going to live in the atchafalaya basin or up in the wilderness of Maine or Idaho?

if you think that is what you prefer...get after it

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I just spent 4 days on Hilton Head Island with my wife and I’m at the airport for our return flight. I obviously cannot wait to get home and see my kid.

But I mean are we as human beings really meant to work 5-7 days a week with maybe one full day for leisure until we’re 65 years old? It just doesn’t seem like that’s what humanity should be.

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so you loved everything about a commercialized tourist place that had people working to make sure your vacation was amazing.....and your conclusion is humans are not meant to work 5 days a week?

we were meant to work 24/7 hunting food and protecting and dying at 35.

but how do you propose you pay for the vacation and the people serving you? how do you propose we motivate people to build the things that you loved so much?

yall find any reason to bitch and complain. Great vacation to a great location that 99% of the US cant afford........well let me run to TD and complain about human existence

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But I mean are we as human beings really meant to work 5-7 days a week with maybe one full day for leisure until we’re 65 years old?

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I early retired at 59. Had to leave the company I worked for. They were churning out the oldsters. My retirement portfolio is worth twice what it was when I left. That helps.

Then dont! Sacrifice a little $$ for more happiness. Its worth

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We “should” be out hunting game and struggling to thrive in nature, but a long time ago, we figured out how to build civilization so that we can work 5 days a week and have some chill time.

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I’m probably just jaded AF, but that sounds much more fulfilling than corporate world bullshite

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It just doesn’t seem like that’s what humanity should be.

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We did a big RV trip this year and did a bunch of national parks. I definitely question why our society went so work focused in this country. Looking back at the Gerhke's trips from the Ken Burns National Parks documentary, I would love to do shite like that every year where they took weeks to explore the country.

Europe has it right with their leave style and how much sick/vacation/baby leave they get. We have a limited time here, shame we waste so much time to companies that don't care about us.

Hell, I wish I just had the pension retirement plans these idiot boomers got where they stay working at the company even after they hit the pay to stay mark. I'm dumping as much as I can into my 401k and other accounts, I'm getting out and living well after the kid goes through college.

Just had a friend transfer to the Netherlands for work, he is getting paid well and getting all kinds of benefits to live over there. If my wife wasn't so tied into this part of the country, I'd consider doing the same.

I question it daily