Comments on: Asked and Answered – Workaday Life Editon

By: Michael Reynolds

Michael Reynolds — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:42:38 +0000

Reynolds is a professor?

Worse yet, a writer.

By: odograph

odograph — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:35:34 +0000

A year or two ago I might have been talking right here at OTB about the low US savings rate. Some people might do better than expected with leasure time ... but a high savings rate helps. It is possible to live paycheck to paycheck on any amount, and be insecure on 1/4 million a year, as other people demonstrate. (We are doing better, as a nation.)

By: Rick Almeida

Rick Almeida — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:58:32 +0000

Reynolds is a professor?

By: another matt

another matt — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:39:36 +0000

Job? You have a job? Luxury!

By: Steve Verdon

Steve Verdon — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:54:58 +0000

I hope that post is in jest, otherwise somebody needs his ass kicked.

By: Michael Reynolds

Michael Reynolds — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:32:02 +0000

I work about 4 hours a day, pick the time, pick the place, wear whatever is comfortable, and take off whenever I like for as long as I can manage without falling too far behind.

I welcome your impotent abuse. Ah hah hah hah!

By: Phil Smith

Phil Smith — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:10:27 +0000

I'm contractually entitled to two weeks, but I'll be damned if I know when I would take it.

By: Brian Knapp

Brian Knapp — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:09:19 +0000

Heh, Alex, I worked 168 hours a week turning this stupid wood mast around in a circle, wearing only a loin cloth, as an apprenticeship before being forced into gladiator death-matches.

Now who's the pansy?

By: Alex Knapp

Alex Knapp — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:53:19 +0000

I work 161 hours a week. To get to work, I have to walk six miles, uphill each way, in the snow. I've been doing this since I was three years old. I have never had a vacation. In fact, I have to have a portion of my pay taken each week that gets paid to my employer so that HE can have a vacation.

You people are all pansies...

By: E.D. Kain

E.D. Kain — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:45:48 +0000

Hey I work 50 hours a week and don't get a day of paid vacation. Not one day.

By: Billy

Billy — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:39:50 +0000

Yeah - two weeks vacation a year sounds great. I barely get one.

By: One Fine Jay

One Fine Jay — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:33:57 +0000

I get a max of 40 hours of vacation that accrues at 1 hour a week, with no carry over to the next year. This guy needs perspective.

By: floyd

floyd — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:28:20 +0000

No, you can not be expected to do any of these things , as long as you do not expect others to suffer the consequences or reap the rewards of your behavior.

By: Dave Schuler

Dave Schuler — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:07:59 +0000

The moral of the story is to make your living doing something you love doing or else learn to love whatever you're doing to make your living. You're going to be doing a lot of it.

BTW, 15,000 years ago we were doing a lot less. Check the lifestyles of hunter-gatherers. But if you think that boom-bust is tough now check out what it was like for hunter-gatherers.