I enjoyed college and was fortunate enough to enjoy a good white collar career. But if I could do it all over again, I would have learned how to become a licensed electrician, plumber, etc.
Yes!! Would rather have the wear and tear on my body than the mental toll of corporate culture.
Having worked in both, the physical ease doesn’t make up for the culture.
No. For whatever reason I’m just not good at it. I can do basic things well but otherwise it’s just not my thing. When you have a skilled craftsman’s their work is beautiful. My birdhouse was condemned in shop class.
No but I definitely enjoy learning those trades now as a homeowner, but every time I do a major project on my house I’m reminded why I don’t want a job like that. I’m sore for days and usually have a new cut or something on my hands.
Good answer. For me I try to do stuff around the house and I usually make it worse costing me more money in the end when a professional comes to fix it.
Yes. As somebody in their mid thirties, blessed by corporate America, I’d give it all up for a simpler life in a heartbeat. the rat race is exhausting and corporate America doesn’t care about me. I’ll never produce something that brings me value as a human being. I’ll probably die knowing some stakeholders are pretty happy…
I have a friend who had to move back to Japan due to family health issues, but ended up taking over a family tea farm. he is just living a simple, hard working life and is able to provide for himself and his family. if this opportunity came knocking, I’d take it in a heartbeat.
I could just take the major risk and leave it all behind, but the capitalist world has made instability so damn terrifying that I’m petrified of doing something that can possibly lead to further instability. all those in college now, don’t let your peers going on nice vacations or buying nice things make you think that’s what happiness is. it’s not. find something and someone you love and it’ll all be easy going from there. if it’s corporate America, more power to ya, but think about it first.
Ugh, I’m in the exact same situation, I can feel your pain. Seems to be a common theme.
I actually bumped into a guy at the local pet store, and after a short chat he told me he was a developer at a big company and just couldn’t take it anymore. He quit and became a manager for the local pet store. He says he loves it. I’m envious lol.
seriously.
I always get the “are you really sure you would give up your current lifestyle for something like that?”. and the older I get, the more I think I think… yeah… I kinda do…
