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Re:What if you didn't need money or attention? by ritchiea on Wednesday March 19, 2014 @03:40PM (#7431234)
Well, to be frank, I am putting off thinking seriously about retirement. I feel like I can accomplish some substantial creative work and that the time to try to do that is now while I'm young. I guess you could say I'm hedging multiple interests, with the expectation that if none of my experiments takes off I'll have to try out something different and more full time in the future. Just to be clear, the idea isn't to not work. In many cases I'm actually working far more than 40 hours a week, but I'm only doing 25 hours of work for some person or organization that is paying me. But I'm working on stuff I personally care about.
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Re:What if you didn't need money or attention? by josefresco on Wednesday March 19, 2014 @03:52PM (#7431336)
Some of us work for today ... but many of us work for tomorrow. Let's hope your side projects prove fruitful.
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Re:What if you didn't need money or attention? by psyklic on Wednesday March 19, 2014 @04:17PM (#7431547)
Even at working 25 hours a week, a freelancer can make a good income.
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Re:What if you didn't need money or attention? by ritchiea on Thursday March 20, 2014 @10:11AM (#7435592)
That's true. I am doing far better than just scraping by but I also don't have much in terms of savings. One challenge is that I live in Brooklyn, which has a high cost of living.
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