Hello dear subreddit,
I'd love to hear your opinion on this. First thing; I'm in my mid-20s and have been working in IT for about four years now, earning fairly well.
I despise the corporate world deeply. To me it seems like an illusion of live improvement while I actually spent most of my wake time, almost my entire life working for others in jobs I couldn't possibly have a relation to. Of course I'm granted few hours until the next day to properly recover and consume, which I find myself being encouraged to do by both economy and society all the time.
For me personally, personal and spiritual growth seem to be among the few things that make sense in my life, as it's not predetermined to go, like material belongings and money are. Also other than those, they have the ability to make me happy. As my development in the recent years has revealed to me, they already started to do so. But spending ~8 h
So here's my actual point: Talking about this made people often bring up their desire to work as much and hard as they could, so they'd reach financial independence in a few decades. While the eventual outcome sounds decent, I can't imagine sacrificing all my youth and energy, only to make myself a nice life when it's too late.
On one hand it seems like there's no good option. On the other I'm thinking working part time - as little as possible - and living of as little money as possible (only buying clothes from flea markets, having no smartphone, not driving a car, cooking instead of restaurants/takeout, not flying by plane, only drinking tab water prove to be a good start for me to live simply and spend less money as well). But it hurts to think I need to at least suffer a few days each week for almost the rest of my life and not have even a pension when I'm old. I just want to have time to paint, read, code for fun, photograph, write, meditate, etc.
What's your point on this idea of achieving financial independence? And what option did you choose? Thanks for your time guys!
Submitted September 29, 2020 at 06:57PM by natural-born-chiller https://ift.tt/3lboch5
