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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yeah, I don't either, even after the grueling training of my profession (medicine). I'm not bitter about my path - grateful that it was there to offer me the chance to excel at something I liked and make a great life for myself and my family. Not everyone gets that. I would rather be me than the person whose only option was to flip burgers. Or the person who hated work from the very beginning and has been FIRE since 22. That's real pain - to have to spend 40 years doing something you hate because you never found a passion.

I'm now in it for the financial stability and the role modeling to my children. I'll retire around 55/60 and enjoy the hobbies I started in the last few years. But I'm definitely not one of those "work is $tuPiD" people. People were made to work - even a 1,000 years ago, grandpa contributed to the farm until he died. But I've gotten far enough along that I can put work in a specific box.[/quote]
Work itself isn’t stupid. But trading 50+ hours per week and not seeing your kids, damaging your health, etc for money is insane. You spend your prime years getting other people rich in exchange for nothing. Some fleeting thought that your mortgage or that one trip to Paris really does make you happy. True work is good. Making something useful, helping people, building community, THAT is real work that humans were made for.  [/quote]

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