gsjackson wrote:
Right on the money. My career has been avoiding stress, not unlike the esteemed Mr. Wu. I've worked as a lawyer, journalist, college instructor, congressional aide, federal bureaucrat and substitute teacher. None of them ever took. Quit every job I ever had when it became aggravating and started to grind me down (though I probably stayed in criminal law a bit too long, albeit working for myself).
So yeah, to the extent I've been able fend off aging, stress avoidance probably has a lot to do with it. I've always prioritized health.
Same here. Back in Cali I got a job (with no college degree) in factory that at the max I could make 45k per year. I made far less then 45k simply because I never took the extra hours that were optional for me to take when people called out sick and so forth. I wanted to quit on the second day, but not only did a friend get me the job, but I was forced to stay for one year to pay off a few outstanding bills that I had. The company was a vendor to a major fast food corp, so if you ate any fast food in the west coast from 2006-2007, I had something to do with it, but I'm not going to say what..lol
The work was 10, sometimes 12 hours shifts, and I would work all night and come home and I had bags under my eyes! I was only 26 or so at the time, so I quit, and that was one of the best decisions that I have ever made in my life.
My friend however did not fare so well. My friend use to work this job like a mad man, well, he just had a baby and bought a new car for his bride to be, so it's understandable, but, he collapsed at the job due to something with his heart and overexertion.
He told me the guy next to him at the plant just stepped over him and kept on working and he had to struggle to get somebody to call 911. I think it was more of a racial thing as to why my friend did not get help right away, and nothing with the company, because at this plant, the Whites, Mexicans, and Blacks all kind of stayed with their own kind.