OT 16: A pirate's life for me!

Johnny_P · Wed Jul 10, 2019 1:36 pm

Y’all should get this book. What Color Is Your Parachute by Richard Bolles

goIftdibrad · Wed Jul 10, 2019 1:41 pm

haleyann wrote: ↑Wed Jul 10, 2019 1:13 pm
troyguitar wrote: ↑Wed Jul 10, 2019 11:58 am Fiata doesn't have the exploding transmission feature, so I like that one better. 124 abarf with the carbon fiber hardtop...
Carbon fiber hardtop must be aftermarket, yeah?

Also, definitely getting the abarf.

ChrisoftheNorth · Wed Jul 10, 2019 1:44 pm

Johnny_P wrote: ↑Wed Jul 10, 2019 1:36 pm

Y’all should get this book. What Color Is Your Parachute by Richard Bolles

This is good and what I'm starting to realize in life. The goal isn't to make as much money as possible. The goal is to make as little money as you need to be truly happy.

goIftdibrad · Wed Jul 10, 2019 1:50 pm

Detroit wrote: ↑Wed Jul 10, 2019 1:44 pm
Johnny_P wrote: ↑Wed Jul 10, 2019 1:36 pm

Y’all should get this book. What Color Is Your Parachute by Richard Bolles
This is good and what I'm starting to realize in life. The goal isn't to make as much money as possible. The goal is to make as little money as you need to be truly happy.

as you sit in your half million dollar :plac:

palace driving 3 cars for 2 people- 2 of which are less than 5 years old- its easy to say 'maybe I don't need all this money'

Johnny_P · Wed Jul 10, 2019 1:56 pm

Big Brain Bradley wrote: ↑Wed Jul 10, 2019 1:50 pm
Detroit wrote: ↑Wed Jul 10, 2019 1:44 pm
This is good and what I'm starting to realize in life. The goal isn't to make as much money as possible. The goal is to make as little money as you need to be truly happy.
as you sit in your half million dollar palace driving 3 cars for 2 people- 2 of which are less than 5 years old- its easy to say 'maybe I don't need all this money'

$100 vet bill = put dog down, brah

Then again, you live in potfiller paradise in Airboatville USA. Is your quality of life drastically increased by the red door or nah? The only thing I don't like about where I live is the lack of central AC and parking, but meh. I can mostly deal with it at this point. Quality of life may be increased but it's just fluff really because I'd be house poor. So tradeoffs. I agree with this book to a point, but I think that safe space in the northeast is more like $100k, or maybe $120k if you're in Manhattan or something.

ChrisoftheNorth · Wed Jul 10, 2019 1:59 pm

Big Brain Bradley wrote: ↑Wed Jul 10, 2019 1:50 pm
Detroit wrote: ↑Wed Jul 10, 2019 1:44 pm
This is good and what I'm starting to realize in life. The goal isn't to make as much money as possible. The goal is to make as little money as you need to be truly happy.
as you sit in your half million dollar palace driving 3 cars for 2 people- 2 of which are less than 5 years old- its easy to say 'maybe I don't need all this money'

That's exactly my point. You reach a point where you're happy with what you have...so why keep pushing for more and more?

I could kill myself working a bunch of hours to get the next promotion which means working even MORE hours to make MORE money to buy a MILLION dollar house and a MASERATI...but I think I'd actually be less happy than I am now. The point is that there's diminishing happiness returns with increased income.

Desertbreh · Wed Jul 10, 2019 1:59 pm

wap wrote: ↑Wed Jul 10, 2019 1:22 pm
Desertbreh wrote: ↑Wed Jul 10, 2019 12:10 am

Ron, you may be too cheap for this forum.
How many others here go to Europe every year?

Also,

Just messing with you.

ChrisoftheNorth · Wed Jul 10, 2019 2:00 pm

Johnny_P wrote: ↑Wed Jul 10, 2019 1:56 pm
Big Brain Bradley wrote: ↑Wed Jul 10, 2019 1:50 pm

as you sit in your half million dollar palace driving 3 cars for 2 people- 2 of which are less than 5 years old- its easy to say 'maybe I don't need all this money'
$100 vet bill = put dog down, brah

Then again, you live in potfiller paradise in Airboatville USA. Is your quality of life drastically increased by the red door or nah? The only thing I don't like about where I live is the lack of central AC and parking, but meh. I can mostly deal with it at this point. Quality of life may be increased but it's just fluff really because I'd be house poor. So tradeoffs. I agree with this book to a point, but I think that safe space in the northeast is more like $100k, or maybe $120k if you're in Manhattan or something.

The book is also quoting figures that are almost 10 years old and just after the great recession.

Apex · Wed Jul 10, 2019 2:00 pm

Detroit wrote: ↑Wed Jul 10, 2019 1:59 pm
Big Brain Bradley wrote: ↑Wed Jul 10, 2019 1:50 pm

as you sit in your half million dollar palace driving 3 cars for 2 people- 2 of which are less than 5 years old- its easy to say 'maybe I don't need all this money'
That's exactly my point. You reach a point where you're happy with what you have...so why keep pushing for more and more?

I could kill myself working a bunch of hours to get the next promotion which means working even MORE hours to make MORE money to buy a MILLION dollar house and a MASERATI...but I think I'd actually be less happy than I am now. The point is that there's diminishing happiness returns with increased income.

Everyone has their individual level of "enough" for them, and getting more with increased effort doesn't bring the same level of satisfaction.

Johnny_P · Wed Jul 10, 2019 2:02 pm

Detroit wrote: ↑Wed Jul 10, 2019 2:00 pm
Johnny_P wrote: ↑Wed Jul 10, 2019 1:56 pm

$100 vet bill = put dog down, brah

Then again, you live in potfiller paradise in Airboatville USA. Is your quality of life drastically increased by the red door or nah? The only thing I don't like about where I live is the lack of central AC and parking, but meh. I can mostly deal with it at this point. Quality of life may be increased but it's just fluff really because I'd be house poor. So tradeoffs. I agree with this book to a point, but I think that safe space in the northeast is more like $100k, or maybe $120k if you're in Manhattan or something.
The book is also quoting figures that are almost 10 years old and just after the great recession.

Yep

goIftdibrad · Wed Jul 10, 2019 2:05 pm

Johnny_P wrote: ↑Wed Jul 10, 2019 1:56 pm
Big Brain Bradley wrote: ↑Wed Jul 10, 2019 1:50 pm

as you sit in your half million dollar palace driving 3 cars for 2 people- 2 of which are less than 5 years old- its easy to say 'maybe I don't need all this money'
$100 vet bill = put dog down, brah

Then again, you live in potfiller paradise in Airboatville USA. Is your quality of life drastically increased by the red door or nah? The only thing I don't like about where I live is the lack of central AC and parking, but meh. I can mostly deal with it at this point. Quality of life may be increased but it's just fluff really because I'd be house poor. So tradeoffs. I agree with this book to a point, but I think that safe space in the northeast is more like $100k, or maybe $120k if you're in Manhattan or something.

Detroit wrote: ↑Wed Jul 10, 2019 1:59 pm
Big Brain Bradley wrote: ↑Wed Jul 10, 2019 1:50 pm

as you sit in your half million dollar palace driving 3 cars for 2 people- 2 of which are less than 5 years old- its easy to say 'maybe I don't need all this money'
That's exactly my point. You reach a point where you're happy with what you have...so why keep pushing for more and more?

I could kill myself working a bunch of hours to get the next promotion which means working even MORE hours to make MORE money to buy a MILLION dollar house and a MASERATI...but I think I'd actually be less happy than I am now. The point is that there's diminishing happiness returns with increased income.

then it sounds like you are in a good place. Just don't loose sight of where you are.

ChrisoftheNorth · Wed Jul 10, 2019 2:12 pm

Big Brain Bradley wrote: ↑Wed Jul 10, 2019 2:05 pm
Johnny_P wrote: ↑Wed Jul 10, 2019 1:56 pm

$100 vet bill = put dog down, brah

Then again, you live in potfiller paradise in Airboatville USA. Is your quality of life drastically increased by the red door or nah? The only thing I don't like about where I live is the lack of central AC and parking, but meh. I can mostly deal with it at this point. Quality of life may be increased but it's just fluff really because I'd be house poor. So tradeoffs. I agree with this book to a point, but I think that safe space in the northeast is more like $100k, or maybe $120k if you're in Manhattan or something.

Detroit wrote: ↑Wed Jul 10, 2019 1:59 pm
That's exactly my point. You reach a point where you're happy with what you have...so why keep pushing for more and more?

I could kill myself working a bunch of hours to get the next promotion which means working even MORE hours to make MORE money to buy a MILLION dollar house and a MASERATI...but I think I'd actually be less happy than I am now. The point is that there's diminishing happiness returns with increased income.
then it sounds like you are in a good place. Just don't loose sight of where you are.

Oh, totally. It's been a lot of hard work and years of

to reach this point. It's the first time in my life where I'm questioning the need for MORE.

Johnny_P · Wed Jul 10, 2019 2:24 pm

Detroit wrote: ↑Wed Jul 10, 2019 2:12 pm
Big Brain Bradley wrote: ↑Wed Jul 10, 2019 2:05 pm

then it sounds like you are in a good place. Just don't loose sight of where you are.
Oh, totally. It's been a lot of hard work and years of to reach this point. It's the first time in my life where I'm questioning the need for MORE.

I've been questioning the need for more for a few years now. I was making good money in my last gig and living off maybe 50% of my take home, which is nuts. Quality of life was horrible I was coming home horribly stressed and taking that out at home. Unable to hang out with friends or do things I wanted to after work because it was taking so much of my time. But I was getting paid. So yay? Not really, I could have been just as happy, or happier, in a lesser paying position with less responsibility and therefore better work/life balance.

ChrisoftheNorth · Wed Jul 10, 2019 2:26 pm

Johnny_P wrote: ↑Wed Jul 10, 2019 2:24 pm
Detroit wrote: ↑Wed Jul 10, 2019 2:12 pm
Oh, totally. It's been a lot of hard work and years of to reach this point. It's the first time in my life where I'm questioning the need for MORE.
I've been questioning the need for more for a few years now. I was making good money in my last gig and living off maybe 50% of my take home, which is nuts. Quality of life was horrible I was coming home horribly stressed and taking that out at home. Unable to hang out with friends or do things I wanted to after work because it was taking so much of my time. But I was getting paid. So yay? Not really, I could have been just as happy, or happier, in a lesser paying position with less responsibility and therefore better work/life balance.

Exactly!

There's costs to making a lot of money. Important to find the balance.

ChrisoftheNorth · Wed Jul 10, 2019 2:29 pm

I remember as a kid talking to my dad about jobs. I was maybe 10? The president at his company was fired and I asked him if he would be the new president. He said no, and wouldn't want it if it was offered to him.

I distinctly remember being :mindblown:

All I had ever known was MORE MORE BETTER BETTER MORE MORE BETTER BETTER. I brought home an A- on a report card, my mom would :triggered:

why isn't that an A? I'd kill myself to get the A...why isn't that an A+? etc.

He said that one day I'd get it that there's an increasing cost for more. I get it now.

troyguitar · Wed Jul 10, 2019 2:30 pm

Detroit wrote:
Johnny_P wrote: ↑Wed Jul 10, 2019 1:56 pm $100 vet bill = put dog down, brah

Then again, you live in potfiller paradise in Airboatville USA. Is your quality of life drastically increased by the red door or nah? The only thing I don't like about where I live is the lack of central AC and parking, but meh. I can mostly deal with it at this point. Quality of life may be increased but it's just fluff really because I'd be house poor. So tradeoffs. I agree with this book to a point, but I think that safe space in the northeast is more like $100k, or maybe $120k if you're in Manhattan or something.
The book is also quoting figures that are almost 10 years old and just after the great recession.

Yep, $75k (per person or household?) in 2010-11 was :waxer:

and in most places still is... I hate work :doe:

and won't really be happy until I can retire, so more money is going to always be better long term until then. Ain't nobody gonna pay me to blow 60 hours a week on muzak and then go racing on the weekends, all in Southern France.

ChrisoftheNorth · Wed Jul 10, 2019 2:34 pm

troyguitar wrote: ↑Wed Jul 10, 2019 2:30 pm
Detroit wrote: The book is also quoting figures that are almost 10 years old and just after the great recession.
Yep, $75k (per person or household?) in 2010-11 was and in most places still is... I hate work and won't really be happy until I can retire, so more money is going to always be better long term until then. Ain't nobody gonna pay me to blow 60 hours a week on muzak and then go racing on the weekends, all in Southern France.

Yea, there's not a ton of demand for that sort of work.

SAWCE · Wed Jul 10, 2019 2:35 pm

Found a hotel in downtown that does movies out on one of their rooftop decks. :notbad:

date night idea. $48 gets you a lounge/recliner for 2 and endless popcorn.

Think the normal seats are $17/each, so the extra $7 a person seems worth it for the popcorn and a more comfortable seat together rather than being in separate chairs.

ChrisoftheNorth · Wed Jul 10, 2019 2:36 pm

SAWCE wrote: ↑Wed Jul 10, 2019 2:35 pm Found a hotel in downtown that does movies out on one of their rooftop decks. date night idea. $48 gets you a lounge/recliner for 2 and endless popcorn.

Think the normal seats are $17/each, so the extra $7 a person seems worth it for the popcorn and a more comfortable seat together rather than being in separate chairs.

That sounds awesome! Solid deal too IMO.

Johnny_P · Wed Jul 10, 2019 2:37 pm

troyguitar wrote: ↑Wed Jul 10, 2019 2:30 pm
Detroit wrote: The book is also quoting figures that are almost 10 years old and just after the great recession.
Yep, $75k (per person or household?) in 2010-11 was and in most places still is... I hate work and won't really be happy until I can retire, so more money is going to always be better long term until then. Ain't nobody gonna pay me to blow 60 hours a week on muzak and then go racing on the weekends, all in Southern France.

No, but maybe you could get a job working a sound board for a music venue or something. My soon-to-be-sister-in-law works as a lighting specialist for a stage prep company, they tour all over the place with bands and weird shit setting up speakers and lighting. She likes it, travel is like 25% of the time and she gets to see the concerts for free.

there are possibilities out there I think that would pay something and still allow you to work in/close to what you like.

Another one of my friends works for Exxon mobil research in their race fuels division. He gets to go to all sorts of races and stuff from Nascar to F1 to whatever. Lots of travel but he's around the racing team and drivers and in the pits keeping the race cars working right.

ChrisoftheNorth · Wed Jul 10, 2019 2:38 pm

Johnny_P wrote: ↑Wed Jul 10, 2019 2:37 pm
troyguitar wrote: ↑Wed Jul 10, 2019 2:30 pm Yep, $75k (per person or household?) in 2010-11 was and in most places still is... I hate work and won't really be happy until I can retire, so more money is going to always be better long term until then. Ain't nobody gonna pay me to blow 60 hours a week on muzak and then go racing on the weekends, all in Southern France.
No, but maybe you could get a job working a sound board for a music venue or something. My soon-to-be-sister-in-law works as a lighting specialist for a stage prep company, they tour all over the place with bands and weird shit setting up speakers and lighting. She likes it, travel is like 25% of the time and she gets to see the concerts for free. there are possibilities out there I think that would pay something and still allow you to work in/close to what you like.

Johnny_P · Wed Jul 10, 2019 2:40 pm

SAWCE wrote: ↑Wed Jul 10, 2019 2:35 pm Found a hotel in downtown that does movies out on one of their rooftop decks. date night idea. $48 gets you a lounge/recliner for 2 and endless popcorn.

Think the normal seats are $17/each, so the extra $7 a person seems worth it for the popcorn and a more comfortable seat together rather than being in separate chairs.

Other date night idea: Go to the local animal rescue and walk some of their doggies together. $free

Apex · Wed Jul 10, 2019 2:41 pm

Johnny_P wrote: ↑Wed Jul 10, 2019 2:37 pm
troyguitar wrote: ↑Wed Jul 10, 2019 2:30 pm Yep, $75k (per person or household?) in 2010-11 was and in most places still is... I hate work and won't really be happy until I can retire, so more money is going to always be better long term until then. Ain't nobody gonna pay me to blow 60 hours a week on muzak and then go racing on the weekends, all in Southern France.
No, but maybe you could get a job working a sound board for a music venue or something. My soon-to-be-sister-in-law works as a lighting specialist for a stage prep company, they tour all over the place with bands and weird shit setting up speakers and lighting. She likes it, travel is like 25% of the time and she gets to see the concerts for free. there are possibilities out there I think that would pay something and still allow you to work in/close to what you like.

Another one of my friends works for Exxon mobil research in their race fuels division. He gets to go to all sorts of races and stuff from Nascar to F1 to whatever. Lots of travel but he's around the racing team and drivers and in the pits keeping the race cars working right.

Apex · Wed Jul 10, 2019 2:42 pm

SAWCE wrote: ↑Wed Jul 10, 2019 2:35 pm Found a hotel in downtown that does movies out on one of their rooftop decks. date night idea. $48 gets you a lounge/recliner for 2 and endless popcorn.

Think the normal seats are $17/each, so the extra $7 a person seems worth it for the popcorn and a more comfortable seat together rather than being in separate chairs.

date night idea!

goIftdibrad · Wed Jul 10, 2019 2:44 pm

Johnny_P wrote: ↑Wed Jul 10, 2019 2:37 pm

Another one of my friends works for Exxon mobil research in their race fuels division. He gets to go to all sorts of races and stuff from Nascar to F1 to whatever. Lots of travel but he's around the racing team and drivers and in the pits keeping the race cars working right.

that sounds bad ass.