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You may die younger but is slaving away in an office to make money for someone else for most of your waking hours really living?



What if you happily work in a low-stress office, enjoying what you do and with whom you do it, and are satisfied with your compensation?

There are definitely healthy middle grounds available as life choices.


Nope. I keep getting told "career limiting" like that's a bad thing. I'm good, it keeps wanting more. It mirrors that thing about food: "eat to live or live to eat"

edit: Despite now making 5x my first salary, I still feel my situation; less than Serfdom. For the same outcome... there are easier/more rewarding paths.

Under this light, with capital for a house I'll never afford sitting in the bank, less-than-mainstream options start to look more appealing. To borrow a term I've learned in this supposedly-fanciful Up-or-Out corporate life: my 'blockers' are legality/morality and... I wasn't born in [or relocated to/kept in] the right ZIP code.




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