Track_Shovelthink of the shareholders
MrJameGumbYeah guys, everyone knows that not being sleep deprived, burnt out, and on the verge of mental and/or physical collapse is super boring
MNByChoiceYou can do all of those things when retired as well.
How do you know your living if you are not wishing to die every second?
Guys be careful! You don’t want to be only bored instead of burnt out, frustrated, taken advantage of, and bored.
Pleasure cruises, golf and tracing the family tree seem like cherry picked bad examples.
cm0002Not necessarily, those are all things lots of people get pleasure out of, I even like to research my family tree from time to time and I’m nowhere close to retirement yet lmao
Lots of, but not the majority. They could have picked many other things that would seem fun for much larger demographics, but that would be counterproductive to trying to convince you to work forever.
Jo MiranWhat my retirement is shaping up to look like:
- Steam backlog with over a thousand games
- Dozens of board games
- Card games
- Gigs worth of TTRPG PDFs
- Gigs of Audiobooks
- Terabytes of TV and Movies
- Snowboarding
- Skateboarding
- Mountain biking
- Off-Grid Van Life
- Learning guitar
- Learning electronic music production
I dunno. I suspect I won’t miss office politics, stressed clients and the rest much.
Unless you plan to retire very early, you should try to learn guitar long before retirement. Learning something, especially music, is much harder when you get older.
I get that you’re trying to be helpful, but playing the guitar well isn’t the goal. It’s ok that it is more difficult to learn as you get older, the point is to enjoy the learning. It’s unhelpful to discourage anyone at any stage of life from learning to play a new instrument or learn a new skill. Enjoy the process when you are free to take all the time you need.
Flying SquidI agree. I have taught myself to play many instruments in my life. I can’t play any of them well, but that wasn’t the point. The point was to learn how to play a new musical instrument. Sure, I can’t pick up a saxophone right now and sound like John Coltrane, but I know all the essentials of how to play a saxophone, and if I spent a couple of weeks at it, I could probably do some basic, but listenable, jazz on it. With a guitar, I can’t pick it up and play like Jimi Hendrix, but I can play chords and sing along with them. I’ve learned a lot of other instruments at a very amateur level because the joy wasn’t in learning to play them well, it was in learning to play them.
Load of bullshit. You can learn guitar at any age.
Retirement home Halo 3 LAN
Nope. For me it will be a retirement home Unreal Tournament LAN. Instagib!!
I don’t know if my old ass roll have the reflexes for 90’s shooters
Dont sell yourself short. I (50) joined a lobby a few months back and I didn’t fully suck.
I’m already bad now, lol.
I have a friend who is very happily spending his retirement wargaming- playing games, inventing games, painting models and writing and self-publishing books on wargaming. He seems extremely satisfied.
Yep. I forgot to add “painting miniatures” to the list.
Some of his miniatures are super miniature too. Like a quarter the size of Warhammer miniatures. And he does a very good job of painting their little Napoleonic uniforms or whatever.
Bro I’m gonna retire next fucking year YEET THAT CAREER the whole idea of working to make someone else money is DUMB buh bye
theodewereuh oh, sounds like someone's got a case of the Mondays
I believe you'd get you'd get your ass kicked for saying something like that, man.
Start your own business then…
Why don’t you mind yours and let them enjoy their retirement rather than taking on unnecessary debt and awful hours to compete in a market designed to benefit megacorps over small businesses regardless of all the empty rhetoric from both parties?
Lordy, say one thing that doesn’t toe the line, and people get uppity real fast.
Maybe it’s less a line to be toed and more your utter tonedeafness. Also, “uppity” is perhaps not the best word choice since that’s usually used as a racist and/or classist dog whistle…
Aaaaangry people angry.
On a lighter note, how do you make your coffee?
And following up on that tangent, how do you like your coffee?
I like my coffee like I like my women: COVERED IN BEES!
Eddie Izzard paraphrase aside, I’m not fancy about it. I like Usain Bolt coffee: black, strong and (near-) instant 😉
You?
French Press. Trying some new beans from Costco called Greenberry’s. Didn’t realize the front had a zipper and cut the whole damn top off, so feeling like a moron (good start to Monday).
Been cutting myself from any sort of dairy, since been adding a splash of oatmeal in it, and it’s pretty much perfect.
We sometimes add a piece of cinnamon to the grinder to get it a little extra flavor sometimes. It’s actually really nice on occasion - gets to be a little much when you do it too often though.
Have you considered just being born rich?
Or, you know, enjoy retirement.
Maybe you want to work your ass off until you die. Not everyone does.
Snot FlickermanSelf-fulfillment is for suckers!
I’m going to try to swallow some shotgun shells if I have to see one more article telling me to work until I die.
Are you currently working? Because if you are, then swallowing shotgun shells now, means that you have technically worked until you died.
The best thing to do is to quit and then go live in a van down by the river. If you can afford a van in this economy.
Convenient, I already own a van. Time to put in my resignation.
Working is great if you’re some manager or CEO type. I can see why they’d love to keep working and stealing from labor.
I don’t get it? Is it like work until we say so? Cuz I worked for a company. Most people were somewhat happy working there then it was sold/move overseas. Some people got forced retired.
I’m fifty, love what I do, and I’m already prepping for my third attempt at retirement and this one is going to stick. My team keeps burning out but clients refuse to make plans to replace our skill set. Now they are gaslighting?
Working is overrated
EdibleFriendOH MY FUCKING GOD I THOUGHT THIS WAS A SHITPOST THIS IS A REAL ARTICLE
The Economist is truly awful. Just deep throating capitalism in every article.
It’s kinda funny watching neoliberal zealots try to rationalise how their economic system eating itself is actually a good thing.
All we can hope is that China will be a better superpower than the US was 🤷♂️ the collapse of the west seems inevitable.
What makes you think china won’t collapse along with them? Our economies are tied at the hip and they are sitting on a massive debt bomb with their real estate woes.
They already resolved the real estate issue, without any crisis. And you might not know cause this isn’t news in the US, but China has been massively offloading all its US debt and dollar reserves. They are preparing to decouple, the US has been threatening to do it for so long. But the fact is, the US and the West will suffer much more than China. They are pivoting to a service and economy, and will become the new US of a new “global south” pole.
Tankies gonna tankie.
They already resolved the real estate issue, without any crisis
Nope. Most definitely not. Never heard of Evergrande have you?
This is bait
My favorite was watching Chris Matthew’s lose his shit when Bernie won California. Literally cried on air and for some reason was also antisemetic?? Anywho would love to see more of the former from them.
Tbf I wouldn’t really expect much from a newspaper going by “the economist”
Bartleby is satirical
Oh thank god
Is it? I found this page and nothing indicates it’s satirical at first glance (and no way I’m registering to read that).
“Thoughts on management and the world of work, in the spirit of the “scrivener” of Herman Melville’s 1853 novel” from www.economist.com/bartleby
Even there, though, nothing explicitly states it’s satire. I found the column’s introduction and even there it doesn’t seem ironic at all.
Zuberi 👀pls ignore me crying in my cutoff by 5 years corner 💔