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LIFE'S LESSONS

If you work hard and save your money here is what you can do.

You can retire early and live someplace that no business would be able to endure. It is the sybaritic factor. You will not want to work anyway. Even if there was a business there.

Here is another thing you can do. You can make friends with whoever you want whether they are of any use to you at all. No networking. No ass kissing. No going to "conferences" which are really a lot of penis waving. Even by the girls.

You will not have to please anybody. If you want, your motto can be "fuck off".

You do not have to explain. Anything. Except maybe to your husband but that never works anyway. Whatever it is, "it" is not a rational issue.

One of the best things is that you can go to the gym every day and have buddies who have no idea of your life outside the gym and don't give a fuck. They just sort of like you and are willing to stick to a few words of one syllable. It is all smiles, fellowship and indescribable mutual attraction. No one cares what your workout plan is either. If any.

The biggest payoff for some diligence during your work life is to have the time to read all the books you want to read and see all of the movies you want to see.

You do not, after all, have to discuss any of them at the water cooler anymore.

Ever.

And you don't have to see blockbusters or oscar pictures or any fucking any of that crap.

You can, incidentally, if you have saved your money, buy a book whenever you want to.

Hard cover.

And even with overnight shipping.

And if you don't like a book you can throw it across the room and put it in the library donation pile where almost all the books go.

They are consumables.

There will be a few that you will want to read again and again. I have about 20 such books. You will know when you hit one.

The other thing being well to do (not rich) allows is being in the Netflix 6 disc plan and have movies to wallow in. You can also buy a few that you really, really like so that when they die in the Netflix disc inventory, which they do and fall out of the queue, you will be able to watch them.

If they have DVD players forever. If not, there are plenty where those came from.

There is a lot of bullshit about retirement and how difficult it is for people who have been working hard and have a lot of responsibility. This is the propaganda put out by the military industrial complex to scare people into working longer for less money.

I retired at 60 and have seen more movies and read more books than anyone I know. And I have a superb life. Especially the part of being able to tell people I do not like to fuck off. In a nice way.

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