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Re:A growing number of young Americans are leaving desk jobs... by dejv on Friday November 24, 2017 @01:07PM (#15772135)
Yeah, I spend each winter contracting for funded startups and the vision of new tractor implement or some new gizmo makes it easier to work on the stuff.

I guess the big part of better lifestyle is just giving up on ambitions. You know that you are not building next billion dollar company and you also know that you are not going to buy new BMW every year anyway so there is no pressure in keeping with Jones.

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Re:A growing number of young Americans are leaving desk jobs... by monaghanboy on Friday November 24, 2017 @02:47PM (#15772650)
You don't actually have to become a farmer to adopt the latter viewpoint and reap all the resulting life benefits.
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Re:A growing number of young Americans are leaving desk jobs... by wybiral on Friday November 24, 2017 @02:57PM (#15772698)
True. I live a minimalist lifestyle by design but I don't live on a farm or anything. Unless your main source of pleasure is having the nicest car, newest gadgets, various status symbols, etc, then you can trade your labor hours towards those things in for more time doing what you really enjoy.
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