*sigh*

[ksmith]

An interesting post by an agent tailor-made to burst my little soap bubble dreams.

I dream of the quit-the-day-job deal. I am also a tad security-conscious. I once took one of those on-the-job personality tests--the results were a tie between "entrepreneur" and "security", which is about as conflicted a result as you can get.

To be a full-time writer. The books need to keep selling, and you need to keep writing them. For 20, 30, 40 years or more.

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[mindyklasky.livejournal.com]

Sigh, is right. I don't have any answers, but I ask myself the same questions, early and often.

I dropped out of the super-high-paying, 60+-hour a week job about ten years ago; I left being a lawyer to become a librarian. At the time, my salary was halved (although my hourly wage didn't take anywhere near the same hit!)

I enjoy being a librarian, but I tire of the time commitment. I'm ready to scale back again, but I'm afraid to do it. My husband and I discuss this a lot - he is much more willing to trust the accoutants' graphs than I am. (According to those graphs, we can be out in 9 years, with plenty to last us in our current lifestyle. I don't believe them - maybe because it seems to good to be true.)

I really don't like being a grownup sometimes.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

(According to those graphs, we can be out in 9 years, with plenty to last us in our current lifestyle. I don't believe them - maybe because it seems to good to be true.)

I'm prepared for my standard of living to take a hit. I am figuring that the freedom will be worth it. I may kick myself later, but I won't know until I know.

I really don't like being a grownup sometimes.

Testify, sister! I may swipe this as a Thought for the Day.

[mindyklasky.livejournal.com]

I was going to type "swipe away" and then I saw that you had :-)

I'm prepared for *some* hit. (We eat out at restaurants a lot, for example, because we're both too beat to cook and clean up when we get home. I love cooking at home and wouldn't mind doing it, in a world where there's more time.)

That's the balancing act, though, isn't it? figuring out the things that we're willing to sacrifice, and the things that we aren't?

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

I jumped the gun. Sorry. :-/ But you said exactly what I'd been thinking for the past few days. I still think this adult thing is waay overrated.

As the day draws closer, I think I'll finally be able to shake out once and for all what I'm willing to do without. I only hope that I don't jump before I'm really ready, and end up regretting it.

Then there are days when I think I'd be willing to live on peanut butter if I could just step away. It isn't even that my job is 60+ hours a week stressful. It's just that I'm going through the motions.

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

(According to those graphs, we can be out in 9 years, with plenty to last us in our current lifestyle. I don't believe them - maybe because it seems to good to be true.)

I really do think there's a genetic pop on some of us that is always skeptical. It goes along with vivid imagination and the ability to speak eloquently. I think we may be an early warning system for our tribe, so to speak.

Since they don't want our advice, we're trying to look after ourselves. Down here, we watched the people burned by Enron. We don't believe in pensions, unless they are something simple like "Can buy health insurance at current cost to employees" or some such.

No--being the adult is vastly over-rated...