If you could quit your job tomorrow and be financially okay, would you?

[merithyn]

I don't think it is.  Where is the motivation to work for free?  That like playing poker for play money.

It depends on what you're doing, doesn't it? If I had the opportunity to work 20 hours a week volunteering for something like the library, I'd be happy as hell.

[derspiess]

It's hard to not mentally decompose once you stop working, so no.

Well I would not stop working, but working for free is alot more fun than working for your bread money.

I don't think it is.  Where is the motivation to work for free?  That like playing poker for play money.

You're doing what you want, can work at your own pace, and have the comfort in knowing you can always walk away from it if it starts to piss you off.

[DGuller]

You're doing what you want, can work at your own pace, and have the comfort in knowing you can always walk away from it if it starts to piss you off.

In that case it's really a hobby then and not work.  Then again, I suppose that working when you can quit is a hobby too in some sense. 

[dps]

A BK Quad Stacker can be special?

Apparantly for DG anyway.  Not my idea of a fancy meal by any stretch.

[derspiess]

You're doing what you want, can work at your own pace, and have the comfort in knowing you can always walk away from it if it starts to piss you off.

In that case it's really a hobby then and not work.  Then again, I suppose that working when you can quit is a hobby too in some sense. 

Work and hobby are not mutually exclusive.

[DGuller]

A BK Quad Stacker can be special?

Apparantly for DG anyway.  Not my idea of a fancy meal by any stretch.

It's fancier than BK Triple Stacker.

[Ed Anger]

A BK Quad Stacker can be special?

Apparantly for DG anyway.  Not my idea of a fancy meal by any stretch.

It's fancier than BK Triple Stacker.

Get the fancy ketchup

[Caliga]

I've started going to Burger King more frequently.  The one near my office has one of those cool drink mixing machines where you can get a ton of different flavors of Coke and get it with or without caffeine.  It's also right across the street from the plant where Ford makes the F-250 thru F-550, which gives me a boner.

[CountDeMoney]

I bet you mix and match your Slurpee flavors, too.  Country ass.

[Caliga]

I don't drink Slurpees, and even if I did I'd be SOL because we don't have any 7-11s here.  CIRCLE K Y'ALL

[Tamas]

I am not convinced that it is healthy to have work be the point of your life, especially if you are just an employee instead of running your own business.

[Razgovory]

I voted for the "absoultely", because, let's face it, I don't have a lot going on now as it is.

[katmai]

Most weeks I just do my government-mandated 37.5 hours.

Then quit your bitching in TBR.

[mongers]

Re: If you could quit your job tomorrow and be financially okay, would you? 

I'm so close to that now and it's getting so hard to work. I've kind of "hit the wall", especially after last summer's illness and having ongoing minor medical issues for the past year, I've really had it with having to be on the job, any job. Maybe something fun and creative would be a nice change that I would want to work for but otherwise I really just want to spend time doing whatever I want. Funny too because I always figured I'd be wanting to work until my mid-late 60s before retiring but I can't wait to stop. A very different frame of mind from any I've had towards working. A couple of retired neighbors said the same thing, that they just got to a point and said they're ready to call it quits and retired early. One a teacher and the other a maintenance guy for a College, both were good jobs and benefits.

Kronn, I'm in a similar frame of mind for similar and also different reasons. 

I just need to come up with one last workable business idea, that I can throw myself into and that'll see me up to retirement.

[garbon]

I've started going to Burger King more frequently.  The one near my office has one of those cool drink mixing machines where you can get a ton of different flavors of Coke and get it with or without caffeine.  It's also right across the street from the plant where Ford makes the F-250 thru F-550, which gives me a boner.

I don't like that machine with the ton of flavors of Coke. I think there is a reason that regular coke is the most commonly sold version.