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by pgm8705 3500 days ago
I'm on board with all his points except for "Stop doing shit you hate." Lovely idea, but completely unrealistic.
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Depends how wealthy you are I guess. If you have a billion dollars, I doubt you need to do ANYTHING you don't like.

As your money scales down, you may have to do a few more things you hate ;)

However I think it might be easier to find joy in things you hate vs just hating them :)

> it might be easier to find joy in things you hate

That is arguably the key to happiness :)

I agree for the most part, you can't just drop everything because you're frustrated. You probably have people depending on you for income, or find moving basically impossible. I will say this though, you really should keep a keen eye out for something better.

I have a cousin who lives in a rough neighborhood. I don't mean scary looking, I mean bullets flying and blood soaked people walking down the street at night (literally saw that the last time I drove out of there). When I was a kid living there, I always thought to myself there's got to be something better and I hated the area. They choose to embrace it. Now, years later, streets are as dangerous as ever. They're still there and I found something a lot better.

I had a few lucky breaks, but I was watching for them and I didn't let it pass me by. My wife did the same, moved to entirely different countries and learned the language there. We treat our jobs the same, when we find it's something we hate, we work toward fixing that. We talk to management about issues that come up. We job search when we have too. We don't give up, we work toward something better.

I quit my job, moved to a country where i can life of the money i have and work exclusively on my side projects while outsourcing stuff i dont like.

I mean, its not so far catched if you have no kids & wife.

I love my wife and son a lot more than I hate some of the things I don't like to do.

That doesn't mean I should keep doing things I don't like...

yeah i see that point. I am really glad i realized that i could do that before i had serious stuff going on.
Perhaps. I'm lucky to work a job I love, so I have that privilege.

But there used to be a lot of stuff I hated doing that I've been able to ditch. I probably could have written that point in a more realistic way.

Neither poor enough nor rich enough not to do what you don't want to do. The curse of "middle class" so to speak.