The Easy Life? 2727 Responses

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• randomname

  Have you ever thought of quitting your job and moving close to a beach?

  That is essentially retiring, but what prevents us from doing it? Our Kids?

  What keeps you motivated to work hard?

  Apr 17, 12, 2:09 a.m. – Permalink

• Shepstar15

  Yes, but there is no beach near me :(

  • Then move it closer, thing outside of the box man damn it!– kalkal1/2

    That's why you move.– randomname2/2

  

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  Dog-earApr 17, 12, 2:15 a.m. – Permalink

• Bluejam

  reads this book...

  http://ia600801.us.archive.org/z…

  • d'oh– Bluejam

  

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  Dog-earApr 17, 12, 2:20 a.m. – Permalink

• Bluejam

  

  • That schedule around the edge looks like way too much hassle to me.– kalkal

  

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  Dog-earApr 17, 12, 2:20 a.m. – Permalink

• sine

  I'm young, and I want things...

  But, I live close to the beach, don't work too hard and have ample free time.

  • I believe you are winning. good job you– flashbender1/5

    hehe, winning!– sine2/5

    i'd be winning doing what i want to do instead of being idle at an easy job i'm not into.– sine3/5

    what do you want to do?– NathanNice4/5

    make furniture and shape surfboards– sine5/5

  

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  Dog-earApr 17, 12, 2:21 a.m. – Permalink

• Peter

  >what prevents us from doing it?

  Debt

  

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  Dog-earApr 17, 12, 2:28 a.m. – Permalink

• freshdude

  How would one support themselves?

  • By offering couples to take photos with their own camera, only to charge them for simply clicking the shutter.– kalkal1/2

    lucrative!– freshdude2/2

  

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  Dog-earApr 17, 12, 2:41 a.m. – Permalink

• freshdude

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  Dog-earApr 17, 12, 11:17 a.m. – Permalink

• freshdude

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  Dog-earApr 17, 12, 11:18 a.m. – Permalink

• nb

  I'm working on a plan to achieve this in the next 10 years. Call it early part-time retirement. I don't have kids, so that makes it easier.

  I've decided that it's crucial to have a solid plan. Currently working on a criteria to help determine my perfect destination. Factors will include cost of living, climate, health care, economic and political stability, language, property costs, safety. There is no place that will meet all my desires, so my criteria should help me decide on the best possible location.

  Also need to figure out how to save enough money to survive, and have enough squirrelled away to move back to Canada and get re-started, if I choose to do so in the future. Don't want to get stuck in a struggling economy.

  There's so much to figure out, but I've got time because it's going to take a while to save up a nest-egg. I just turned 32 and realized I have no long-term goals. Nothing inspires me to make money these days. I've become comfortable and unmotivated. Hopefully this is a project that can keep me occupied and motivated for the next few years. Then, relax.

  • Nice. What criteria regarding language? That the majority speak your native tongue?– CanHasQBN1/3

    I'd prefer English, Spanish or French. Just easier for me to learn at this point. Not a deal-breaker.– nb2/3

    You can be happy anywhere - find the right people and make something happen.– mikotondria33/3

  

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  Dog-earApr 17, 12, 12:33 p.m. – Permalink

• qoob

  I've considered moving abroad to somewhere cheap to live and continuing to freelance like I do now. The cost of living is so low in some places that I could work a couple weeks a month and do just fine.

  • There's only four weeks in a month.– freshdude

  

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  Dog-earApr 17, 12, 12:38 p.m. – Permalink

• qoob

  Let's face it Western civilization is doomed anyway

  

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  Dog-earApr 17, 12, 12:40 p.m. – Permalink

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  Dog-earApr 17, 12, 12:43 p.m. – Permalink

• Wolfboy

  the thing that stops me from moving to the beach is my life in London. I love it.

  The thing that stops me from working is my life in London. It costs cash in wage size amounts.

  (I studied in Falmouth, Cornwall - so I have lived by the beach without many responsibilities for 3 years and I prefer my life now).

  

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  Dog-earApr 17, 12, 12:46 p.m. – Permalink

• qTime

  Too many people are conned into believing this work hard play hard lifestyle is actually good.

  You don't get much in return for working your life away at some agency. Working for yourself is a different matter.

  It always makes me laugh when some people say they like working late.

  • Cause they have nothing else to do with their time– clearThoughts

  

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  Dog-earApr 17, 12, 1:15 p.m. – Permalink

• scarabin

  i live near a beach, can't remember actually ever going there

  

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  Dog-earApr 17, 12, 1:17 p.m. – Permalink

• scarabin

  everyone works their asses off for "someday", "someday" i'll retire, then i can really live life. just 15 more years, then i can live life. as soon as the kids move out i'll live life. as soon as i save enough money i'll live life.

  fuck someday.

  figure out how to live now. you don't need to be sitting on piles of cash to be happy in life...

  it's the present that matters

  • yup– CanHasQBN1/5

    !!!– NathanNice2/5

    +1– clearThoughts3/5

    :)... takes a while to figure that out. Often only happens as a last resort. Very welcome at any age though. Cheers :)– mikotondria34/5

    Totally. My life is amazing, and I love it. But I'm also looking forward to the beach.– nb5/5

  

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  Dog-earApr 17, 12, 1:20 p.m. – Permalink

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  Dog-earApr 17, 12, 1:22 p.m. – Permalink

• Horp

  Have you ever thought of quitting your job and moving close to a beach? That is essentially retiring, but what prevents us from doing it? Our Kids?

  I quit my career and moved to the beach. I did it specifically because we were having kids not in spite of it. Moving to the beach is a great thing to do with kids.

  

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  Dog-earApr 17, 12, 2 p.m. – Permalink

• desmo

  If you choose the easy life, that means you are not ambitious and are a lazy sob.

  • A=A reasoning. facile.– ebertzjaw1/4

    What if your ambition is to achieve the easy life? Wouldn't that make one ambitious?– CanHasQBN2/4

    and what if you work hard at having an easy life? how can that be lazy?
    – ebertzjaw3/4

    All this, and more, Plato.– ebertzjaw4/4

  

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  Dog-earApr 17, 12, 2:02 p.m. – Permalink

• clearThoughts

  Very good point

  

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  Dog-earApr 17, 12, 2:31 p.m. – Permalink