The Line Up - Daily Chat :)
By all means you can like your job and I guess I was a bit exaggerated to say nobody… But most people would change at least a few things if they could…
Fair enough and in all honestly I would have agreed with your original statement a few years ago before I finished uni again.
I’ve heard this argument before many times, there’s for and against on both sides and it really depends on what you’re most comfortable with. I have friends who have done both ways, one of my mates paid off his place about 18 months ago at the age of 33. He worked his backside off for it and has always been very disciplined with his money. With that said once he was in his mid twenties he did a little bit of travel within his annual leave allowance, usually surf trips. He did take off about 3-4 months at one point and drove from Sydney all the way around to WA surfing the whole way. Right now he’s about to embark on a 9 month trip through Indo then on to the UK and France and other parts of Europe. He’s renting out his flat and that money as well as what he has saved will keep him going. He’s only 35 now so he’s managed to get to a point where he can do these things while still young enough, his saving grace in that regard I suppose is that he has no wife or kids so nothing tying him down at home, most others at his age probably aren’t in that situation.
I have a well paying job as well as freedom with when and how I work that is pretty enviable really. I work to a budget, if I’m hitting that budget no one really cares what else I’m doing or where for the most part. I find this to be an infinitely more agreeable working situation than a job where it’s based on time in situ so to speak. One of the grommies out at my local saw me getting out of my suit before a surf at lunch one day and asked me what I do for work, I told her and she was kinda surprised, she thought I was a fireman cause she couldn’t work out any other sort of job where I could be surfing so much through weekdays.
I would like to travel abroad some more but my OS travel is more slotted between the confines of 4 weeks annual leave or if I chose to take it, maybe a few extra weeks leave without pay. At the moment I’m not overly concerned, my day to day “ordinary” life is awesome, if anything it’s detrimental to my desire to save for a big holiday because I have it so good at home. This year I’ve been on a road trip from home all the way up to Byron and back surfing all the way, a trip to Tonga over Easter for 7 days, numerous weekends up at Seal Rocks surfing, 36 days on snow and I’m about to head back off to Tonga for another 8 days next week so I still do a bit of getting away while maintaining my career “working for the man.”
I don’t love what I do, I’m not even sure at times I really even like it that much but I’m good enough at it to allow me the lifestyle I currently have and that’s pretty sweet with me right now.
I don’t love what I do, I’m not even sure at times I really even like it that much but I’m good enough at it to allow me the lifestyle I currently have and that’s pretty sweet with me right now.
This is what I’d expect to hear from a good portion of people on here and is sort of what I was trying to get at.
It definitely is an interesting debate.
As much as I might love any job, I still can’t think of one I’d enjoy more than not working!
at 31.5, I haven’t yet had a full-time job….had stretches of working full-time a few weeks at a time here and there, but nothing permanent.
All I can think about it how much more fun I’ve had living that way than my contemporaries who have money but not had the fun. More days surfing, snowboarding, more days laughing and having fun with my friends etc etc. The worst for me is when people act like they don’t have any choice in this regard, when clearly they do.
But if nobody worked, the world would be a very different place?????
of course you can work….just don’t understand everyone feeling like they ‘have’ to work full-time all the time.
I had a 4 day per week teaching job for 3 years.
Had tuesdays off, and it was epic!
Have a weekend, work one day, have another day off, work 3 days and then it is the weekend again!
The extra money you earned for working 5 days in a row couldn’t possibly be worth the lifestyle trade off!
I work 4 days out of every 8, yet I work more than Full Time Hours!!!!!
haha yeah I’ve known of a few people who’ve worked their full-time hours in 4 days so they can have an extra day off. I reckon as long as you’re not exhausting yourself doing the extra so you’re too tired to have fun on the day off, then it sounds alright!
I work 4 days out of every 8, yet I work more than Full Time Hours!!!!!
Texting the Ice Prancer is not a real job mate 
I work 4 days out of every 8, yet I work more than Full Time Hours!!!!!
Texting the Ice Prancer is not a real job mate
But it does have its rewards!!!!!
Many many rewards 
I was working in the FIFO industry in WA for 4 years as a Heavy Duty mechanic, Working weeks on end away from home with no set roster and earning $$$$ (alot of it) I got ahead in my house payments and now I’ve quit and am moving to Canada on a 2 year work visa to try my hand at living a better life.
What ever you do its important to have goals set, The first 2 years i wasted a lot of money because i didn’t have much planned, when i realized what i was doing i knuckled down and hit a target, Now my ideas have changed I’m heading out to try something else.
Work your ass off but love the life style it brings? Great, Don’t work hard and don’t have a lot of money but a great family/Wife/Girlfriend you spend all your time with or go out riding every day with every spare cent you have, that’s great too.
The most happy people i see are the ones who make a choice and go for it, What ever side of the coin your on, don’t float in the middle and get nothing out of both sides.
Obviously both have there downfalls, You work hard in your early life some say your wasting your best years, But if you spend your youth having fun and blowing your money you might struggle later. You cant do and achieve EVERYTHING i guess. Best thing to do is what works best for you and don’t have any regrets
(But I’m only 24 i don’t know jack about life yet 
just my 2 cents)
I think it’s a bit of a myth that when people get “old”, they somehow can’t do shit anymore?????
Sometimes people get scared that they’ll miss out on somethin, or use age as an excuse as to their lifestyle!!!!!
I don’t think working for money gives happyness.
I really like that NBG said he has it so good at home and that it is detrimental to his desire to travel. I remember once having a “discussion” with my ex about going on a holiday - my side of the debate was that we lived on the beach with 170˚ ocean views, a swimming pool in the front yard, etc… why spend extra to go down the coast and pay more on accom to get less, that our lifestyle was better than a holiday.
It seems to me most people spend more time trying to escape their lives and complaining about what they have rather than celebrating it.
There’s definitely no place like Home!!!!!
But travelling is a real buzz!!!!!
Variety is the spice of life!!!!!