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re: Do you ever feel like you’ve wasted your life?
Posted on 2/23/21 at 7:04 pm to kywildcatfanone
Posted on 2/23/21 at 7:04 pm to kywildcatfanone
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I feel for you. I'm close to retirement myself, but for young people today, I see a fairly bleak future. Automation and liberalism will reduce good paying jobs as time goes by.
I'm kind of in the middle of my career at this point. 21 years in and probably about that to go unless something changes. It's kind of depressing to think I've been working for this long and I'm only about at the halfway point to retirement
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Posted on 2/23/21 at 7:06 pm to fr33manator
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I’m honestly a bit jealous of your travels.
Fr33, you’d thrive in an Asian dive bar. You were born in the wrong body since that was where you were meant to be. At worst your were an Asian dive bar bartender in a previous life. They’re so much fricking fun even though the stakes are high. There’s a good chance I’ll fully become a Frank Reynolds by the end of my life.
This post was edited on 2/23/21 at 7:08 pm
Posted on 2/23/21 at 7:09 pm to SaintlyTiger88
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Do you ever feel like you’ve wasted your life?
Absolutely not; However, progressives are making me regret bringing children into this world. My children will never see the world through the true lens of a free society. A shite show is already here and it will
Be worse for future generations.
Posted on 2/23/21 at 7:11 pm to OMLandshark
I’m planning on checking out Vietnam in October when international travel restrictions let up a bit
I may hit you up for recommendations before then
I may hit you up for recommendations before then
Posted on 2/23/21 at 7:13 pm to SaintlyTiger88
not at all, pretty much been doing whatever the frick i want for last 20+ years.
Posted on 2/23/21 at 7:14 pm to NPComb
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Absolutely not; However, progressives are making me regret bringing children into this world.
I don't regret having kids but I do think this country will be very different for them as adults.
Posted on 2/23/21 at 7:14 pm to OMLandshark
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you’d thrive in an Asian dive bar.
Lucy's Tiger Den. RIP.
I still have the tee shirt somewhere.
Posted on 2/23/21 at 7:15 pm to NawlinsTiger9
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I’m planning on checking out Vietnam in October when international travel restrictions let up a bit
I may hit you up for recommendations before then
I was only in Vietnam for 3 days though, so I can really only give you the sightseeing on certain places. Now if you’re going to Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Nanjing, Qingdao, or Guilin, I’m your guy.
Posted on 2/23/21 at 7:15 pm to Muthsera
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Muthsera
Really hope a door opens up for you. Keep looking and you'll find it.
Posted on 2/23/21 at 7:16 pm to OMLandshark
I can imagine that. A jolly one eyed Gweilo running a small island dive populated with locals and expats. Girls of every shape and color serving brews and booze. A big black iron pot sizzling in the corner. Gems and jade and treasures adorn the walls. Swords and knives everywhere. Candlelight and karaoke fill the room.
Fun but also there’s a tinge of apprehension on the air, like a smile that could turn to a scowl in an instant and someone could lose a finger, or worse.
But then when the gunsmoke would clear and the music would start back up.
Posted on 2/23/21 at 7:16 pm to fallguy_1978
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I don't regret having kids but I do think this country will be very different for them as adults.
Our parents said the same thing. Their parents said the same thing. And so on and so forth.
Posted on 2/23/21 at 7:19 pm to The Spleen
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Our parents said the same thing. Their parents said the same thing. And so on and so forth.
It's different now. In the past the govt wasn't against the people.
Posted on 2/23/21 at 7:19 pm to fr33manator
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fr33manator
Honestly you need to go with someone who knows the language. While I’m apprehensive now to tell someone to go to China, SE Asia, absolutely. They’ll let you get away with anything there, which makes everything more fun. I’m hearing from my friends back in China they’re shutting down almost anything Americans love, but not SE Asia. That is a place where you can get away with almost anything, and that’s how China was when I lived there. Also SE Asians are a surprisingly welcoming bunch so long as you aren’t black.
This post was edited on 2/23/21 at 7:22 pm
Posted on 2/23/21 at 7:19 pm to Nado Jenkins83
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Time is what you make it
Posted on 2/23/21 at 7:24 pm to dbeck
I don’t regret it, cause I am close to family, but I wonder what my life would have been like if I had moved away after college.
Never felt like I’ve wasted away years, but maybe when I’m 30, I’ll regret not traveling more in my twenties (26, b/c work schedule)
Never felt like I’ve wasted away years, but maybe when I’m 30, I’ll regret not traveling more in my twenties (26, b/c work schedule)
Posted on 2/23/21 at 7:28 pm to O
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Money isn't everything
It's time way more than money. We're secure and comfortable, my daughter will have 10x the opportunity my wife or I had, and I hang my hat on that.
But the time. I work just about every weekend. I work 1-10 2-3x a week. How many times can a man see his kid for 45 minutes a day before they grow up and resent him for it? How many times can I force my wife to watch our toddler by herself all day Saturday and all day Sunday after working full time Mon-Fri? And she makes double what I do. How many years of her life have I pissed away?
It's almost too big to even comprehend, to even begin to reconcile. All you can do is ignore the ever-increasing anvil dangling over your head and work had at changing it, but I can't say I don't feel the shadow weighing on me every second of every day.
Posted on 2/23/21 at 7:29 pm to OMLandshark
Honestly, if I had the money and the time and the right connection I’d love to do a week or 2 in the orient. I’ve always wanted to travel, I said that If when my perdition period passed if I hadn’t had my kids I’d would have hopped on a freighter and skipped cross the ocean.
All my travels have given me perspective. That’s the treasure I returned with. But the wanderlust burns. I feel it calling.
All my travels have given me perspective. That’s the treasure I returned with. But the wanderlust burns. I feel it calling.
Posted on 2/23/21 at 7:30 pm to SaintlyTiger88
Ah, screw that, man! Nothing that happened in the past should bother you unless you seriously harmed someone else. If you wasted time, so what, just stop wasting it.
I know a guy who worked as a regular schmuck for a major corporation for most of his career. He retired at about 55, then he spent the next five years developing a tech company. There are currently a couple of SPACs offering a 25% buy at $1.5 billion. I think he owns about half of the company. If he does the deal he’ll be “worth” $750 million (He’ll still be along for the ride. It could go bust or it could increase 10 fold.)
He could be worth 5 to 10 billion dollars in another couple of years, and he really just started at 55. Did he waste the first 35 years of his career? I don’t think so.
I know a guy who worked as a regular schmuck for a major corporation for most of his career. He retired at about 55, then he spent the next five years developing a tech company. There are currently a couple of SPACs offering a 25% buy at $1.5 billion. I think he owns about half of the company. If he does the deal he’ll be “worth” $750 million (He’ll still be along for the ride. It could go bust or it could increase 10 fold.)
He could be worth 5 to 10 billion dollars in another couple of years, and he really just started at 55. Did he waste the first 35 years of his career? I don’t think so.
Posted on 2/23/21 at 7:32 pm to SaintlyTiger88
Had my first kid at 35. It’s been wonderful.
This post was edited on 2/24/21 at 4:15 pm
Posted on 2/23/21 at 7:33 pm to SaintlyTiger88
I spent years working in public accounting, so yes
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