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A comment on Early Retirement (2006).

Re:Early Retirement (2006) by baobaba on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @11:59AM (#28062580)
> Retirement forces you to stop thinking that it is your job that holds you back. For most people the depressing truth is that they aren't that organized, disciplined, or motivated.

This resonates. I took a 1-year sabbatical after 12 years in the tech industry. I kept a big text file with all the things I wanted to do once I had the time. When I finally did, I realized I only wanted to do one thing from that list (of 30+ items). The rest sounded good on paper, but I never had the motivation to do them. This was a harsh realization, but now when I think "I wish I had time to...", I know it's an illusion. We tend to make time for what we really want. Overall, it was useful to realize.

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Re:Early Retirement (2006) by zemvpferreira on Thursday August 05, 2021 @06:28AM (#28071856)
Don't blame yourself, one year is barely enough to decompress after a decade of work. Who knows how productively happy you could be after getting all the tiredness out of your system?
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