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@canefan said in Happiness Scale:
Started the new year with a pretty high rating. I've come to the conclusion we simply need to work less
Fucken ay. Wife started her new role as manager and she's relieved she doesn't have to deal with the old duck she replaced, but has found other things to stress about. Because that's what she does.
Meanwhile, I'm clocking in maybe five hours a day of good stuff to keep the wheels turning enough to make me look awesome.
I'm never going back to the office full-time. A mate of mine from the Rugby club works nearby, and is thinking of selling his house here and moving up the central coast into their investment place.
Now I'm thinking about buying an investment place up the coast and moving there when the kids are done with high school
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@NTA said in Happiness Scale:
@canefan said in Happiness Scale:
Started the new year with a pretty high rating. I've come to the conclusion we simply need to work less
Fucken ay. Wife started her new role as manager and she's relieved she doesn't have to deal with the old duck she replaced, but has found other things to stress about. Because that's what she does.
Meanwhile, I'm clocking in maybe five hours a day of good stuff to keep the wheels turning enough to make me look awesome.
I'm never going back to the office full-time. A mate of mine from the Rugby club works nearby, and is thinking of selling his house here and moving up the central coast into their investment place.
Now I'm thinking about buying an investment place up the coast and moving there when the kids are done with high school
Balance is so hard. But when Mrs CF is not working she is much more receptive to work. If you know what I mean....
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@NTA said in Happiness Scale:
@canefan said in Happiness Scale:
But when Mrs CF is not working she is much more receptive to work. If you know what I mean....
I think I do. But for me that is just a theory, and don't think it is likely to change
We are nothing but opportunists
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@canefan said in Happiness Scale:
@NTA said in Happiness Scale:
@canefan said in Happiness Scale:
But when Mrs CF is not working she is much more receptive to work. If you know what I mean....
I think I do. But for me that is just a theory, and don't think it is likely to change
We are nothing but opportunists
Dirty, maniacal sex opportunists
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@NTA I've just done the same! Re-read this thread that is, not hit that Reddit forum
Boy did we cover some ground. Workplace pay structures, bedroom antics, wives trying to kill us, magic retirement numbers needed from lotto. Good stuff.
By way of update, we have settled right back into the hectic Sydney life of busy jobs and crazy kid schedules. Wife starts a new job in 2 weeks, and it looks like I've lined something up to start immediately after I finish my current gig in April - different sector, super interesting, less comp initially but lots of potential. Scary but exciting! Not confirmed yet, but
I think we have just accepted that life is going to be mostly-happy carnage until the kids finish school. After that we can do whatever we want. We will still be young enough in our early 50's and hopefully healthy enough to enjoy it.
In the interim, just keeping trucking on assuming! And assuming this new job comes off, Covid may end up doing us a favour with the new WFH regime making stuff a lot easier to balance.
Hope 2021 has started well for you guys
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@voodoo said in Happiness Scale:
I think we have just accepted that life is going to be mostly-happy carnage until the kids finish school. After that we can do whatever we want. We will still be young enough in our early 50's and hopefully healthy enough to enjoy it.
The potential trap is in "whatever we want" being changed significantly, depending how things have evolved.
I want to make sure something solid is there on which to continue when the kids leave the nest, and that requires healthy continuation of The Relationship.
I'm not talking about The Marriage; I posit that The Marriage to me is a combination of The Relationship, kids and household etc. It isn't all of The Relationship, because part of that existed before The Marriage. So in a Venn diagram they don't overlap 100%
A few older couples get a shock when the kids fly free, because the underlying basis of their interactions got lost when kids came along, becoming more about the family unit rather than The Relationship with each other.
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@NTA no doubt, the relationship is a constantly evolving thing, and I reckon 90% of parents go through some form of struggle when the kids finally leave the nest for good.
I cant bring myself to worry about that now - the relationship is good at the moment, and if 2020 has taught me anything, it is to savour the now and not to stress about stuff years (even months!) ahead that I really can't control.
I plan to sort the finances out, help the kids as much as possible, then just see what happens!
In the interim, I'll drink much beer and wine, and come here to the Fern when shit doesn't work out like it should
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Ok I've only got as far as people saying 3 mill isn't enough to stop working and m4l saying 2 mill would hardly change his life and fucken hell I'm flabbergasted.
What the fuck do you guys earn and spend on that you couldn't live off 50k a year for the next 60 years?
I could easily turn 1 mill pounds into pretty much retirement with the odd spot of work on property or what have you here and there.
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@Bones said in Happiness Scale:
Ok I've only got as far as people saying 3 mill isn't enough to stop working and m4l saying 2 mill would hardly change his life and fucken hell I'm flabbergasted.
What the fuck do you guys earn and spend on that you couldn't live off 50k a year for the next 60 years?
I could easily turn 1 mill pounds into pretty much retirement with the odd spot of work on property or what have you here and there.
IIt's gotta be travel, doesn't it? You take all that free time and that's probably a good 3-4 trips away each year, each for a few weeks. To my mind, that averages out at ~5000 quid per trip unless your only holiday destination is Vietnam or Laos.
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@Bones As I am closer than most to retirement I have probably been giving more thought to this than the average Ferner.
I am aiming to have an income of $70K plus my pension. I figure this will allow me to live comfortably for a couple of decades.
As @junior says a lot of it is travel. I budget for two long haul overseas trips and half a dozen domestic p.a.
COVID permitting.....
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@Bones said in Happiness Scale:
Ok I've only got as far as people saying 3 mill isn't enough to stop working and m4l saying 2 mill would hardly change his life and fucken hell I'm flabbergasted.
What the fuck do you guys earn and spend on that you couldn't live off 50k a year for the next 60 years?
I could easily turn 1 mill pounds into pretty much retirement with the odd spot of work on property or what have you here and there.
Kids, travel and a love of cars.
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@Bones said in Happiness Scale:
Ok I've only got as far as people saying 3 mill isn't enough to stop working and m4l saying 2 mill would hardly change his life and fucken hell I'm flabbergasted.
What the fuck do you guys earn and spend on that you couldn't live off 50k a year for the next 60 years?
I could easily turn 1 mill pounds into pretty much retirement with the odd spot of work on property or what have you here and there.
There’s obviously massive amounts being spent on blow and hookers that they’re ashamed to admit.
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@MN5 said in Happiness Scale:
@Bones said in Happiness Scale:
Ok I've only got as far as people saying 3 mill isn't enough to stop working and m4l saying 2 mill would hardly change his life and fucken hell I'm flabbergasted.
What the fuck do you guys earn and spend on that you couldn't live off 50k a year for the next 60 years?
I could easily turn 1 mill pounds into pretty much retirement with the odd spot of work on property or what have you here and there.
There’s obviously massive amounts being spent on blow and hookers that they’re ashamed to admit.
It's a good theory but this is a guy that happily confessed to holding a dildo in his mouth.
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@Bones said in Happiness Scale:
@MN5 said in Happiness Scale:
@Bones said in Happiness Scale:
Ok I've only got as far as people saying 3 mill isn't enough to stop working and m4l saying 2 mill would hardly change his life and fucken hell I'm flabbergasted.
What the fuck do you guys earn and spend on that you couldn't live off 50k a year for the next 60 years?
I could easily turn 1 mill pounds into pretty much retirement with the odd spot of work on property or what have you here and there.
There’s obviously massive amounts being spent on blow and hookers that they’re ashamed to admit.
It's a good theory but this is a guy that happily confessed to holding a dildo in his mouth.
The cost of ridiculous bow ties adds up as well I guess
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