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saltesc@lemmy.world 6 months agoYou kinda just described the majority of remote work jobs, which there are heaps. I don’t know about 401Ks. I’ve never opted to live somewhere where I’m not legally taken care.of. Like now in Australia, all that’s automatic by law. My employer pays an additional 17% of my salary into a retirement investment fund.
Friend just got bacl.from three.months in Japan. Wanted to see if he could do his job overseas without anyone realising and pulled it off with most people. Another’s off to go surf in Portugal for a while and working out of a van. Another’s just sold their house and touring Australia until they find a spot they like and move there. They’re a marketing lead for some big company, no degree. I myself just finished an 18 month stint in a totally different city and just flew back every 4–6 weeks to say hi and see the gang. Oh and there’s the one that plays golf every afternoon by himself because he logs on at 5am and gets work out of the way and free up his day. His work isn’t even based in Australia. I know more, but they’re just your.normal WFH jobs, one guy’s seen his office once to pick up a laptop on day one two years ago lol.
So, yeah, there’s a lot. I think that’s the preferred market.
If it’s not like this where you are, just leave for a place that’s better living.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I can’t even read this ignorant mess after that first sentence. I no longer think you were being nice.
saltesc@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I’ve just shared with you people’s experiences proving a common society… If you’re not prepared to hear such things or you find people’s experiences personally offensive, don’t ask such things and certainly don’t attack me for it. This is your problem, not mine or anyone else’s. Feel free to continue addressing or ignoring it alone.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 6 months ago
You weren’t asked nor were you attacked. “Attacking” is not pointing out rudeness. You sound like a very privileged and ignorant person, completely unaware that 99% of people alive like you would kill for what you’re pretending is standard.
saltesc@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Heh. My life has been anything but socially privileged and, yeah, I see that as a privilege. When you have nothing to lose, there’s no fear holding you back, and you reap the rewards. This is why my friends are where they are and will drop everything they have, where others can’t imagine it. Most people won’t ever get to that level of what they have been taught is “success”. But in truth, there’s nothing more satisfying than closing a chapter, resetting to zero, and doing it all again somewhere new, something new, new experiences.
What you know as “privilege” and those you have been taught to be in it, all of it is a big disadvantage in life. The fuel of social and status anxiety fears, holding people back from living.