This is living

homelessskilledworker

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2102585/Couple-quit-jobs-sailing-finally-return-UK--marathon-36-YEAR-trip.html

Of course we cannot all live like this, but most could do with going more towards this direction.
My daughter has just finished uni, the last thing I want to see her do is live the same type of life that millions of robots are conditioned to live like when in reality there are a million different paths you could choose.

matbe

This is just what we need. A couple spend life savings on a forty year jolly round the world paying no tax, contributing nothing to society.
Now when ill health sets in they return to milk the nhs claim old age pension and pay no council tax.
What an inspiration!

molerat

I know of a couple who retired but decided to carry on working in a new career .......... sailing yachts between med countries for clients .......... a hard life

pinkteapot

homelessskilledworker wrote: »

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2102585/Couple-quit-jobs-sailing-finally-return-UK--marathon-36-YEAR-trip.html

Of course we cannot all live like this, but most could do with going more towards this direction.
My daughter has just finished uni, the last thing I want to see her do is live the same type of life that millions of robots are conditioned to live like when in reality there are a million different paths you could choose.

Well, this couple gave up very good jobs in their 40s that funded their (then) future lifestyle. So they took the robot route for 20 years after uni...

Amazed no-one in the Daily Mail comments has yet picked up on the fact that the man was a banker*.

* Banker in the current popular sense of the word, meaning "anyone who works in financial services".

Davesnave

"But Dad, hitch hiking to Nepal, or eating insects with natives in the Amazonian rainforest just isn't me....Besides, I really like being a chartered accountant!"

:rotfl:

homelessskilledworker

Davesnave wrote: »

"But Dad, hitch hiking to Nepal, or eating insects with natives in the Amazonian rainforest just isn't me....Besides, I really like being a chartered accountant!"

:rotfl:

And I get your point, and to be honest sailing is not for me, and I also get it when some people even like the rat race, I do at times.

The point I am making is that 90% of the population live exactly like the other 90%, and there the remaining 10% and probably less live a one in a thousand/million individual lifestyle that is unique to them.

Would'nt the world be a better place if people did not conform as much as they do, that all I am saying:)

Davesnave

homelessskilledworker wrote: »

And I get your point...Would'nt the world be a better place if people did not conform as much as they do, that all I am saying:)

I get your point too, but no, I want the person who fixes my car to conform, keep up to speed with developments and turn up on the day it's booked in etc. I want the same from my builder, dentist GP and so on. In an ideal world I'd like them all to enjoy what they're doing too, because then I think I'll get better service.

The guy in the story wasn't enjoying what he was doing, but he'd built up the resources to say,"I don't need to do this any more." So, he threw up his job, knowing he could still live in relative comfort. Most of us need to work for more years than he did to reach that position.

Nevertheless, people who have steady, humdrum jobs are still the lucky ones. There are millions for whom getting a decent meal today is a lottery. They won't be too fazed by convention as they pick over the local rubbish tip, beg at the ferry port etc.