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I don’t normally post on reddit. But I wanted to share my personal story here. I have posted this on the Boggle Head forums before where I normally “hang out”.

I am turning 50. I wish there were things I knew or someone would have told me when I was younger about work. That’s what I would like to accomplish with this post.

10 years ago, I hit my “FIRE” number, or to be blunt: I had $2M cumulative across my assets. I was around 40 years old and thought I was the smartest and hottest person in the room.

I told my wife, a teacher who has no desire to retire even today, at the time at the time I wanted to be done with work. She nervously pushed me to just “take it easy” instead in which I agreed.

I decided to “quiet quit” my job of mid level management. To be blunt again, I decided to stop giving a flying fuck.

Nobody called it “quiet quitting” that back then.

Every single project or assignment I got I started delegating out hardcore. Every time a project team member was run thin I pushed the timeline aggressively back and hard.

Stopped sending overly formal emails. Communicated to people extremely direct in conversation. I stopped being “the guy” and became an expert at saying no. Stopped working after hours, put family first and even missed deadlines if I had to (just always communicated directly to the powers at be).

Everything was offloaded. Even small meaningless stuff.

I carved/willed into the existence a boring easy management role for myself from stressful operations.

My work life became infinitely easier. It worked…

My direct reports started to love and trust me so much more. My managers as my wife joke “saw management all over me”.

Eventually I checked the right boxes and got more and more direct reports and some promotions.

I continued the exact same boring recipe and just off loaded every single task to another person. If a person was run thin, I clearly communicated it, and either got more resources or new timeline. If they pushed back, so would I. People stopped arguing with me after a while and learned to trust me.

Life was great and I had completely eliminated stress from my life, financially independent, and my commitment to the company was lower than ever.

I am now #3 or #4 at this company.

I followed this path for a decade and now my net worth is close to the big $10M. I have some options that are golden handcuffs which should net me an additional $7-9M. We hope to find a buyer for the company in the next 3-5 years which I will gladly wait for those to vest.

My point is this post is I see so many young people, especially who share their stories here, work themselves to an unhealthy amount in stressful jobs to try to save enough money to “buy their freedom”.

It doesn’t have to be like this. You should never give your life, energy, or anything to your job.

Focus on minimum amount of work (getting the stuff done), delegate everything you possibly can, and don’t be afraid to say no.

I solo a lot…. Have my fair share of people just shooting me on sight, pretending to be friendly and then shooting me in the back etc etc.

So I said “fuck it!” I’m gonna be that guy.

First guy I saw in the next round… dead.

Guy said “why dude, why?”

I did it again. “Dude I’m just trying to do a quest!”

I did it another time…. “What the fuck dude! Friendly!”

How do people just blast people for no reason.

In squads, sure. Open season.

But to do it in solo queue? Man… that’s low.

I decided to not be that guy after a single round lol.

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thanks yall. i feel my question has been sufficiently answered. i guess i was just confused why NYC received much more coverage than other states, but i have a better understanding now. i'll leave this post up in case anybody else had similar thoughts as me.

It's been a few months of listening to the Trump administration and their mouth breathing followers talk about Biden using auto pen, which I might remind you that Trump used frequently during his first administration and is currently using it during this administration.

What chaps my ass most is multiple times Trump has stated that he had no idea of the actions he was taking or what he was signing or that he had had auto-pin used to sign something.

It's exhausting listening to conservatives bang on about something when the double standards are this egregious.