Post #3651965

@alineblankertz@indieweb.social Someone once said, "Once you're rich, focus on making more time." I won't name the person because he showed himself to be a disgusting fascist. But interested people can read philosophers like Krishnamurti, Osho, etc. for yourself, you don't need a podcaster/YouTuber interpreting them for you. Once you no longer need to worry about how you pay your bills or feed your children, you should figure out what it is that you want from life. Why are you alive? What is it that you want out of life, other than money? Becoming "rich" is a means to an end, not the end itself, and many people don't know their personal "end". They might even be *afraid* to search for it because it involves asking deep questions. If they never figure out what their "end", their non-financial desire is, they just continue the path they're on: chasing the next salary raise, trying to flesh out their business so that they can sell it. In that sense, after you have enough, making more money is just procrastination from asking the "real questions". People who never stop making more money are cowards. Too scared to live life on their own terms. "Once you're rich, focus on making more time." In Germany, a salary of 70,000 EUR can already mean you're "rich". That number is easily achievable for any software developer with 3 or more years of experience. Maybe instead of chasing that 80,000 EUR position, ask your boss to reduce your 40 hour workweek to a 32 hour workweek. You can always make more money, but you cannot make the day have more than 24 hours. Time that is passed by is gone forever. And someday you'll regret having spent it all on work and making money.