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post 1704093651 07-24-2024, 12:33 PM
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is it true that from age 4-5 most people never get more than 2 months off?

Think about it -- age 4-5 you start school. You get summer vacations, but many parents keep their kids busy during this time...can't have them "falling behind".

After age 17-18 most will never get more than about 2 weeks off at one time. This continues until retirement at age 70 or so.
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You didn't think this thread through, did you?
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Originally Posted By ScrillaIsBake⏩
I feel like most adults have been laid off from their job(s) a few times in their lives at least. Riding unemployment is cool too for a bit, but you feel like a loser if you aren't working or furthering your education.
so they may be "lucky" enough to get several months off while on unemployment while knowing they are about to enter the rat race again at any moment
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Escaping the rat race is pretty easy, you just need the right mind set

One thing you can't be is a low test cowardly bootlicking cuck though. You have to grow some balls
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Originally Posted By ScrillaIsBake⏩
You're supposed to get a career/job you enjoy. That's the whole point of furthering your education lol

Miscers hate working because they either work a dead end job or picked the wrong career path
if i made the offer to pay people what they make at work to never do it again -- 99% are taking my offer.
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Humans are not supposed to just rot and not do anything productive. Furthermore, society cannot function if a large enough number do so.


In a basic hunter/gatherer society. Or even a low tier agricultural society humans pretty much 'work' at shelter/fire/food the majority of the day. 7 days per week. From damn near the time they can walk until the time they can no longer walk.


In a modern society we have the luxury of paid vacations, 40 hour work weeks, and a cozy 'retirement' in our 70s. But make no mistake about it. If enough people opt out of the 'rat race' we are all ****ked.


Civilization needs the working class.
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Originally Posted By guest89⏩
Humans are not supposed to just rot and not do anything productive. Furthermore, society cannot function if a large enough number do so.


In a basic hunter/gatherer society. Or even a low tier agricultural society humans pretty much 'work' at shelter/fire/food the majority of the day. 7 days per week. From damn near the time they can walk until the time they can no longer walk.


In a modern society we have the luxury of paid vacations, 40 hour work weeks, and a cozy 'retirement' in our 70s. But make no mistake about it. If enough people opt out of the 'rat race' we are all ****ked.


Civilization needs the working class.
inspiring me to want to join the working class bro.
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Originally Posted By eddiehaskell⏩
if i made the offer to pay people what they make at work to never do it again -- 99% are taking my offer.
If I woke up tomorrow and made what your "make", I don't know that I would be able to stop myself from jumping out of a very high window.
When it comes your time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.
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Originally Posted By Godfrd824⏩
If I woke up tomorrow and made what your "make", I don't know that I would be able to stop myself from jumping out of a very high window.
here for that daily dose of working man blues cope i see
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cant wait until grant cardone finds this out and starts encouraging 4-5 year olds to invest by buying property with playdoh money and saving for retirement.
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I wanted some extended time off and I didn't care for my job so I saved some money and quit. Took nine weeks off. Started the new job search around week four.
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Originally Posted By Cleveland33⏩
I wanted some extended time off and I didn't care for my job so I saved some money and quit. Took nine weeks off. Started the new job search around week four.
what i couldn't imagine is the agony of those final few weeks where you know you have to go back and it could be decades before you ever get months off again.
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Originally Posted By ScrillaIsBake⏩
You're supposed to get a career/job you enjoy. That's the whole point of furthering your education lol

Miscers hate working because they either work a dead end job or picked the wrong career path
Yeah I work in national security. I don't love it but don't hate it either. I can imagine being a cubicalcel at like an insurance company or whatever ****ty corporate officecel jobs normies have. I'd rope if I had to do that
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Originally Posted By eddiehaskell⏩
here for that daily dose of working man blues cope i see
Says the guy who can't afford to feed his daughter.
Originally Posted By eddiehaskell⏩
what i couldn't imagine is the agony of those final few weeks where you know you have to go back and it could be decades before you ever get months off again.
The ways you cope are incredible.
When it comes your time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.
post 1704101541 07-24-2024, 03:08 PM
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Originally Posted By Godfrd824⏩
Says the guy who can't afford to feed his daughter.
we've grown tired of your routine
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Nope

In Australia and most developed countries it’s 4 weeks annual leave, paid sick leave, long service leave and parental leave

I’m currently taking a year out of the workforce unpaid, and prior to that had a year on paid leave

Pretty cruisy if you work in an in-demand profession
Originally Posted By crupiea⏩
cant wait until grant cardone finds this out and starts encouraging 4-5 year olds to invest by buying property with playdoh money and saving for retirement.
I’m currently looking for a duplex (might need a triplex…) plot of land so I can build a house for each of my sons (2.5 and .3 years old) and they can at least be free of rent/mortgage
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Originally Posted By eddiehaskell⏩
we've grown tired of your routine
I'm surprised your wife hasn't grown tired of your mooching. From the sound of it, the rest of your family has.
When it comes your time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.
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Originally Posted By r32gojirra⏩
Nope

In Australia and most developed countries it’s 4 weeks annual leave, paid sick leave, long service leave and parental leave

I’m currently taking a year out of the workforce unpaid, and prior to that had a year on paid leave

Pretty cruisy if you work in an in-demand profession
This is something OP will never comprehend, his wife brings home the bacon, and whatever she can't cover, the rest of the family will cover out of pity for his wife and daughter. Meanwhile OP brags about eating Arby's for dinner almost everyday, and feeding his daughter that slop.

Originally Posted By r32gojirra⏩
I’m currently looking for a duplex (might need a triplex…) plot of land so I can build a house for each of my sons (2.5 and .3 years old) and they can at least be free of rent/mortgage
For my kids, I will give them the money to buy a home or do whatever they want with it, after they prove that they can make it on their own of course.
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Originally Posted By Godfrd824⏩
For my kids, I will give them the money to buy a home or do whatever they want with it, after they prove that they can make it on their own of course.
What’s the point of helping if they’ve already proven they can make it on their own?

Things will be much more difficult for your kids than they were for you. Why would you judge their success based on the standards that applied to you, and are no longer relevant?
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Originally Posted By r32gojirra⏩
What’s the point of helping if they’ve already proven they can make it on their own?

Things will be much more difficult for your kids than they were for you. Why would you judge their success based on the standards that applied to you, and are no longer relevant?
If they can't do it on their own, they don't deserve it, and I have failed as a father.

It's almost impossible for my kids to have it more difficult than I did, the only way I can think of that being the case is if WW3 feat nukes starts tomorrow. I was born into abject poverty and in a third world country. My kids will be born with every advantage.
When it comes your time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.
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Originally Posted By Godfrd824⏩
If they can't do it on their own, they don't deserve it, and I have failed as a father.

It's almost impossible for my kids to have it more difficult than I did, the only way I can think of that being the case is if WW3 feat nukes starts tomorrow. I was born into abject poverty and in a third world country. My kids will be born with every advantage.
Meh. Seems like you’re making things pointlessly difficult for them.
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Originally Posted By r32gojirra⏩
Meh. Seems like you’re making things pointlessly difficult for them.
Diamonds are made under pressure. Inversely, pamper dog shyt and you get OP.
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I have had so few vacations in my life compared to most people. Half of my vacations were soccer trips carpooling with teammates and staying 4+ to a hotel room with 2 beds.

We just didn't have the money and at this point I chose to push off doing all those things so I got out of debt and have a large savings now.

Honestly though, a lot of people I know take a lot of time off. Heck people just randomly take 1 month off work and fly to their home country in Europe to stay with family and they still have a job. Other people I know take 4-6 vacations a year easily.

As a kid, summer time was some sports, but mainly just having fun with your friends and doing tons of events and stuff. Or going to someone's condo/lakehouse if you get invited. I actually think kids get more time off now.

I have teacher friends and the kids now literally have the easiest life you can imagine. They cannot fail them. They must pass them. So kids don't have to do **** or worry about anything school related.
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i get 3 straight months off every summer

but i choose to work on the side, or else i rot and get lazy and fat
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Yeah, outside of summer vacations.
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Originally Posted By Godfrd824⏩
Diamonds are made under pressure. Inversely, pamper dog shyt and you get OP.
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Originally Posted By DeadlyStriker⏩
I have had so few vacations in my life compared to most people. Half of my vacations were soccer trips carpooling with teammates and staying 4+ to a hotel room with 2 beds.

We just didn't have the money and at this point I chose to push off doing all those things so I got out of debt and have a large savings now.

Honestly though, a lot of people I know take a lot of time off. Heck people just randomly take 1 month off work and fly to their home country in Europe to stay with family and they still have a job. Other people I know take 4-6 vacations a year easily.

As a kid, summer time was some sports, but mainly just having fun with your friends and doing tons of events and stuff. Or going to someone's condo/lakehouse if you get invited. I actually think kids get more time off now.

I have teacher friends and the kids now literally have the easiest life you can imagine. They cannot fail them. They must pass them. So kids don't have to do **** or worry about anything school related.
taking vacations though even for weeks at a time just ain't the same as having years or even decades off with no thoughts about doing anything you don't want to do/no boss/your own schedule/etc.
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Originally Posted By eddiehaskell⏩
I'm not gonna click on that. Type it out you lazy fuk.
When it comes your time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.
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Originally Posted By Godfrd824⏩
I'm not gonna click on that. Type it out you lazy fuk.
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I can promise you school is time off. Most people aren't contributing positively in any way to this world for 22 years of their life starting off
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