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is it a sign you have watched too many when you remember all but one of the videos the gags come from?..
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is it a sign you have watched too many when you remember all but one of the videos the gags come from?..
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Hi all, long time lurker, first time poster 🙂
I’d like to add another aspect to this conversation, being the thought of not wanting time off atall.
Bear with me.
Without going into too much detail about all the nitty grittys of my life, I currently find time off to be the problem to the point that I spend all the time I have at home wanting to be at work.
Why you ask?.. money of course.
During my teens and early twenties I had an easy financial life living at home, getting whatever I want and not having a care in the world. loans here, credit there, catalogues etc.
Long story short I ran up alot of debt that has now come back to bite me, hard.
Finances are tight at the moment to the point of buying food based on two criteria:
1) the inital cost of buying it and
2) the cost (in electric/gas) to prepare/cook itI recently took my bike off the road to spare the expense of keeping it and and now contending with an MOT (MOT is a yearly safety inspection in the UK) for the car.
With this in mind, consider the fact that as I sit typing this, I have a fan heater running which keeps me acutely aware that its chewing up the electric bill and I’ll soon turn it off to save a few pennies.
I will also not go anywhere in the car because every trip in the car somewhere uses fuel that could otherwise be a trip back and forth work. I am more concerned with the fuel guage than I am anywhere I may be going.
Anyway, my point being, that given the way the finances are, I am sitting at home spending, not making money and am not being “personally productive”
when you are in a bad way for money, your mind set changes from living freely to existing and paying bills.
All the time I am at work I am not only earning some money to help pay the bills, I am also not spending money on electric and any other activities non work related, therefore “personal productivity” is in effect and I am at my happiest.
Where I work I am about to be hit hard by a huge workload that could potentially be daunting to others, except I dont see it as a huge workload, I see it as a means to pay bills, reduce my debts and make progress toward financial freedom.
My mind works in reverse to what is suggested in the video, its not the “working life” I need a break from, working is the solution to the financial crippling that I need the break from. To achieve that I need to work more and not have holidays.
I am even tempted to forfeit my holiday entitlements to keep working to help improve my finances.
I am determined that this year I will solve my financial woes and bring about a time in my life where I am not defined by “how much cost” but rather by “yeh, why not”.
But until then, I am worn down and burnt out by the ratrace of existing to pay bills, rather than burnt out by work.
I have been asked before now, how do I cope with this situation.
I’d answer that by looking at my bucket list, or my “things I would be doing if moneys wasnt an issue” list and remembering, given time and work, I will be able to do those things soon.
Focus on the light down the tunnel, not the mud you are stuck in now.
Happy days
Dave
Hi all, long time lurker, first time poster 🙂
I’d like to add another aspect to this conversation, being the thought of not wanting time off atall.
Bear with me.
Without going into too much detail about all the nitty grittys of my life, I currently find time off to be the problem to the point that I spend all the time I have at home wanting to be at work.
Why you ask?.. money of course.
During my teens and early twenties I had an easy financial life living at home, getting whatever I want and not having a care in the world. loans here, credit there, catalogues etc.
Long story short I ran up alot of debt that has now come back to bite me, hard.
Finances are tight at the moment to the point of buying food based on two criteria:
1) the inital cost of buying it and
2) the cost (in electric/gas) to prepare/cook itI recently took my bike off the road to spare the expense of keeping it and and now contending with an MOT (MOT is a yearly safety inspection in the UK) for the car.
With this in mind, consider the fact that as I sit typing this, I have a fan heater running which keeps me acutely aware that its chewing up the electric bill and I’ll soon turn it off to save a few pennies.
I will also not go anywhere in the car because every trip in the car somewhere uses fuel that could otherwise be a trip back and forth work. I am more concerned with the fuel guage than I am anywhere I may be going.
Anyway, my point being, that given the way the finances are, I am sitting at home spending, not making money and am not being “personally productive”
when you are in a bad way for money, your mind set changes from living freely to existing and paying bills.
All the time I am at work I am not only earning some money to help pay the bills, I am also not spending money on electric and any other activities non work related, therefore “personal productivity” is in effect and I am at my happiest.
Where I work I am about to be hit hard by a huge workload that could potentially be daunting to others, except I dont see it as a huge workload, I see it as a means to pay bills, reduce my debts and make progress toward financial freedom.
My mind works in reverse to what is suggested in the video, its not the “working life” I need a break from, working is the solution to the financial crippling that I need the break from. To achieve that I need to work more and not have holidays.
I am even tempted to forfeit my holiday entitlements to keep working to help improve my finances.
I am determined that this year I will solve my financial woes and bring about a time in my life where I am not defined by “how much cost” but rather by “yeh, why not”.
But until then, I am worn down and burnt out by the ratrace of existing to pay bills, rather than burnt out by work.
I have been asked before now, how do I cope with this situation.
I’d answer that by looking at my bucket list, or my “things I would be doing if moneys wasnt an issue” list and remembering, given time and work, I will be able to do those things soon.
Focus on the light down the tunnel, not the mud you are stuck in now.
Happy days
Dave