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Career suicide or great idea?
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Bah! be smart, kid. Everest will be there in 100 years, will your job? Work your job now, you may not get the chance later in life.
edit for jonkranked: this is actually heavy sarcasm, and just a joke. Of course you should take the opportunity to climb everest.
edit for jonkranked: this is actually heavy sarcasm, and just a joke. Of course you should take the opportunity to climb everest.
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Yeah...you may really value that job when you are 126 years old.
BTW - I've never been fired from a job, but I have left some mid stream to follow my heart. Once you get some distance from your office, mentally, you may come to realizations about that particular job. Sometimes you realize you hated it all along, sometimes you miss it more than you thought you would. You gain this perspective from distance and time.
And I can't imagine a perspective that would make a job look so insignificant in your life as from Everest.
BTW - where are you going in Europe?
And I can't imagine a perspective that would make a job look so insignificant in your life as from Everest.
BTW - where are you going in Europe?
this is one of the worst attempts at trolling i've ever seen.
rep communism must occur before you can get in the bread-line again.
this isn't 4chan....and you can't even form that into a kanye reference? come on dude...
so are you actually climbing it or just hanging out at base camp
This is worth risking losing a job over. You are completely crazy if you don't go. You can share my spare room with Joe if you need a place to live.
Careers are for those who don't appreciate life to the fullest. Sure it might be good pay, but when you tell your grandkids about your life, would you rather say that you were at base camp at mount everest, or sitting in a cubicle hating life.
Think about it.
Think about it.
Just going to base camp. The trip is something like 19 days long, 14 of which are spent hiking to trail to base camp. Unfortunately I will be doing nothing more than peering up at the summit.
Spoken like someone who can't figure out what they want to do in life.
Why is it people think you have to choose one or the other? If you do it right, there's plenty of time/money to do both.
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which is closer than anyone here has been.
Not only do I know what I want to do in life, but I am living that life right now and enjoying it fully. It is an amazing feeling to be your own boss. I was in the Air Force for 9 years and knew everyday that I wanted to try and do what I wanted to do whilst I had the time and money to do it, and I did, and I am still doing it.Spoken like someone who can't figure out what they want to do in life.
Why is it people think you have to choose one or the other? If you do it right, there's plenty of time/money to do both.
I will never complain about what I am doing, about my clients, or about the many countries that I am visiting every year for clients and for personal travel.
Life is more than a dollar sign and a cubicle. I would rather live on a penny and love what I am doing, rather than making as much as I used to and hating every second of it.
I feel incredibly sorry for the people that have a "good" job that just pays the bills and gets them by, yet doesn't fulfill their wants and desires at all. Keep being a slave to the dollar sign, I'll keep being a slave to wanting more and experiencing life.
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That's the thing.....why not have both? You make it seem like it always has to be one or the other.
was gonna say, both are possible, but its a tough balance.
That being said, no, not crazy about the cubicle life. Then again, its provides me the funding I need to do a lot of the fun things I want.
That's what I'm saying.
I look at it like this...I'm fortunate enough to like my job, so it's not like I'm spending 40hrs a week staring at the clock waiting for each day to end. Hell, sometimes I enjoy a particular project or what I'm working on so much I'll work extra hours just because. On top of that, working allows me to enjoy the activities I want to do when I'm not working, which is great.
Like Jon said, it's a balance. If you gave me the choice between living comfortably and not doing what I WANT 100% of the time, or barely eeking by but doing what I want 100% of the time, I'd opt for the former, which I have. And I'm grateful everyday I've been able to make that choice and continue to make it work.
When JBP was 25 Mount Everest was a molehill.
If I have ever been in that position in regards to a cubicle. I had a great gig in the AF with ridiculous pay and way too much time off. In most cases it has to be one or the other in regards to hating what you do yet you make good money to do what you want. I am saying, what is stopping you from doing what you truly want to do while also having the time off to enjoy your passions. I am thankfully in that position while also enjoying social security disability and retirement pay at 29 due to my head in jury in Iraq, so I am the exception, but for you, that doesn't have to be the case.
I just want to make sure that everyone has the opportunity to do what they want to do and to enjoy all that life has to offer with no regrets.
If you enjoy enough what you do and still get to enjoy your passions, then more to you. I'm not going to hate. Just don't be a slave to the proverbial system ONLY so that you can enjoy what you love during that short weekend.
I stuck to my guns when I was in my 20's and did what my heart and soul said was the right thing. That usually meant sitting in a van or a bus or in some filthy backstage room at some filthy club. I'd get a couple hours bliss per day and the rest was hell. Loved it. Still do.
I didn't even approach the whole "career" thing until my early 30's. And you know what? I found out it wasn't for me anyway. No matter who I worked for, it was always a "day job".
Now I live from tour to tour and project to project, and try to make ends meet. Sometimes it's feast or famine but I've never been happier.
Fvck The Man.
I didn't even approach the whole "career" thing until my early 30's. And you know what? I found out it wasn't for me anyway. No matter who I worked for, it was always a "day job".
Now I live from tour to tour and project to project, and try to make ends meet. Sometimes it's feast or famine but I've never been happier.
Fvck The Man.
Our fans have jobs?Is that the same "Man" that signs the paychecks of the people who buy your albums and merch, and go to your shows?
Just checking
Wildly dependent on what you do. Right now I don't see it for my job but I think it may come from an itch to requalify or sth.Spoken like someone who can't figure out what they want to do in life.
Why is it people think you have to choose one or the other? If you do it right, there's plenty of time/money to do both.
As for the everest. Go for it without a doubt. People usually overestimate how bad it would be if their lost their jobs and you don't even have that problem.
Take the opportunity, do both trips. If you don't you will regret it 10 years down the road.
Try to get some Italy or spain in there also. I mean, you are in europe anyway.
This right here. Fact is your boss is doing his job in trying to scare you into not going, when he said its ok for you to go. He is right though, your career is always in your hands. Go to everest, have the trip of a lifetime, come back and show gratitude for going on your return. By gratitude show your employeer that your worth letting go for a long vacation such as this and your worth keeping your spot for your return.
Your still going to have your job, Work extra hard up to the point of leaving, work extra hard when you get back.
This is the same thing I said to one of my guys a few years back when he wanted all of his vacation at one time, it was a try and scare him into not going because I needed to find coverage.... For the next year after his return anytime someone else was gone... he covered.
I will never let a good job keep me from living a real live ever again.
Don't grow old saying I could have.
Don't grow old saying I could have.