I do that now. Go to bed thinking about all the things I still need to get done. I've awoke so many times thinking that I was late on an approval or authoring a document. That's sort of the point of salaried positions, they expect you to always work or at least be thinking about work.
Absolutely
Some of the most worthless employees I have ever known were $100,000 a year shits (State Govt 15 years ago)
I agree. That was my point. Other people have it harder than most of us.
You think you have it bad? I grew up living in a shoebox in the middle of the road. My dad used to beat us to sleep with his belt. I yelled at my mom: “All I can do is run around in circles!” She said: “Shut up kid, or I’ll nail your other foot to the floor!” And that was on Christmas Day!
I want to retire, but I fear it will never happen.
You have some good points but you're making the same mistakes of assigning more weight to your opinion and view of the truth than theirs. You don't know their needs, motivations or fears. All you fuckers who think there's one truth or one way are about equally messed up, imo.
Exactly. I did a few years working 70+ then finally hired some people which is scary at first. Work much less now (20ish) but always on call.
I was raised on a subsistence farm where we bought hog feed in cotton bags seamed on three sides. We made clothes , quilts and such out of them. When I started school, I carried my lunch in a brown paper bag and frequently wore homemade clothes. I never went hungry but I know what possum and blackbird tastes like, too.
Maybe that's why we relate with the struggle and empathize with the drive to do better for one's family.
A shoebox? You were lucky!
Both of my parents were first generation to leave the farm. My father had a 7th grade education and my mother finished 11th grade. Their families valued their labor on the farm more than their education. They both grew up with no indoor plumbing and they moved to town as young adults to work in the textile mills. They raised my three sisters and me in a 1100 sq ft house with one bathroom, it wasn’t a mill house but it was in a decidedly working class neighborhood. My sisters eventually had careers as an MD, a teacher, and a senior hospital administrator. I had a fairly successful business career.
how else are you supoosed to put kids to sleep? Also, you had christmas?
When I complained to my mother “Oohh! Daddy’s leg is all green!”
