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Work-strife balance
My FIRE hiatus was purely about the money. It wasn’t about buyer’s remorse or trying to fill a void.
There was no post-career void to fill. I don’t miss my old life. I don’t need it, I don’t want it.
That isn’t to say ‘work’ doesn’t have a role to play in my version of a fulfilling life. I’m completely happy to accept Visa, Mastercard, or cash for doing a few things I’m not terrible at.
Sometimes I even enjoy these tasks, provided they don’t:
- Consume my every waking hour
- Involve a deluge of ‘comms’
- Require me to invent a nonsense reason about why I want this role. (It’s for the money, obviously)
- Attend ‘ra-ra’ team days that constantly invoke a set of ‘values’ that should, let’s face it, be a given
On the other hand, challenging work – that’s easy on the BS, and fits into a sane fraction of the week – is absolutely fine by me.
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