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Preface: I'm not intending to come off as bragging, but providing some justification
I make plenty enough to retire by 45. Does that mean I'll stop working by 45? No, that sounds ridiculously boring. I'd rather work part time or do contract work until I'm physically and mentally unable because otherwise I'll become a vegetable. I enjoy my work and at the moment have no intentions of stopping at any point
I feel bad for anyone who's identity and self worth is so tied to their job that they'd feel this way.
If I woke up tomorrow and was told I could keep receiving my current income for the rest of my life, but I just wouldn't have to actually put in the time and do the work?
I would never touch that work again.
There's so many things I could do, activities to try, things to learn, and skills to develop that I could never imagine getting so damn bored with my life without work that I'd ever remotely consider getting back into the work force.
Work is what I do in order to afford the life I want. It's not the life I want.
Have you considered that some people might actually enjoy their jobs?
I'm not saying you do but that's fine, but you're pretty much saying that working has to be boring and undesirable, which it absolutely doesn't have to be.
I'm saying nothing of the sort.
All I'm saying is that if you're working at a job, you're being paid to do what your employer asks you to do. If you happen to enjoy it, great, but that's incidental, your only choice is to keep doing what they want or to stop and then stop getting paid.
If you don't have to work, though, now you get to choose what to do with your time. And if the thing you'd most want to do with that power of choice is to give it right back to your employer, then idk...just seems sad to me.
What's you opinion on volunteering then? Maybe people do it because it makes them feel good that they're doing something they want to.
And they're not getting paid to do it.
Why not do something you enjoy and get paid while you're at it?