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final_identity · 05-20-2004, 07:07 PM

The idea of money giving you options -- sometimes that's the case, but quite often the quest for money LIMITS your options instead. At least, occupies so much of your time, that you don't have the freedom to exercise or consider all those options that you can afford. It's an odd balancing act.

And to me, travel is VERY important ... not that "go to the condominium on the beach" type of travel so many folks do as tourists, but rather that deep "experience the soul of the people" type that you can only do by means of extended stays in places. Which takes a type of wealth or logistical arrangement I haven't worked out, yet. I'd love to move somewhere for nine months, and then come back and write about it. Even if I lost significant cash in the process. But my problem is, there wouldn't be a job waiting for me upon my return, and so the departure (and the hiatus in my resume) would be too much of a detriment. It isn't the travel or the expense or the lack of income that's the risk, it's the actual not-working.

We Americans put LOTS of stock in the idea of continually slaving. If you don't, you don't fit the mold, and you might find you won't be let back in.

05-20-2004, 07:07 PM	#7 (permalink)
final_identity Tilted Location: Jackson, MS	The idea of money giving you options -- sometimes that's the case, but quite often the quest for money LIMITS your options instead. At least, occupies so much of your time, that you don't have the freedom to exercise or consider all those options that you can afford. It's an odd balancing act. And to me, travel is VERY important ... not that "go to the condominium on the beach" type of travel so many folks do as tourists, but rather that deep "experience the soul of the people" type that you can only do by means of extended stays in places. Which takes a type of wealth or logistical arrangement I haven't worked out, yet. I'd love to move somewhere for nine months, and then come back and write about it. Even if I lost significant cash in the process. But my problem is, there wouldn't be a job waiting for me upon my return, and so the departure (and the hiatus in my resume) would be too much of a detriment. It isn't the travel or the expense or the lack of income that's the risk, it's the actual not-working. We Americans put LOTS of stock in the idea of continually slaving. If you don't, you don't fit the mold, and you might find you won't be let back in. __________________ The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently. Friedrich Nietzsche Last edited by final_identity; 05-20-2004 at 07:31 PM..