I WANT TO BE A TIME MILLIONAIRE AGAIN.

I want to go back to my old self where I always had enough time to do what I loved. When I used to live HAPPY.

I used to live that brilliant life and infact pandemic fucked it up. lol

https://theguardian.com/lifeandstyl...

I did some quick maths of working 2 hours extra (it could be commuting time or whatever).

What the.....

If you earn $100/hour and work for 261.25 hours,

Then either plan to earn $500/hour to offset the time lost so that you can buy it back.

Or reduce the number of hours worked keeping wage to $100/hour.

Thanks, now I'm petrified to know what mine could be.

@C0D4 I did some additional mathematics.

My hourly worth is ~$20 EBITDA

I get it, but I think I'd sooner just, well, enjoy my job rather than try to do the absolute minimum like some of the awful examples in that article.

What they don't realise is that, yes, people almost certainly do notice that they clock in at 8 and off at 11. If you ain't there all afternoon, people will know. But in a lot of these places, it's just too much paperwork to fire someone, so they keep them on as is, and just ignore the problem and hope they leave at some point. Meanwhile, everyone else leaves because they're fed up of working their arses off while this guy does sod all.

@AlmondSauce you are missing the point that article makes.

@Floydimus I don't think I am, I just disagree with it. At least in a UK context (which is fair given the article's origin.)

The whole fetishisation of overwork is only as bad as you let it get. Sure, if you work for a company that expects you to work 120 hour weeks, you hate your work and you monetise all your hobbies to the point you don't enjoy them, etc. you're obviously making yourself miserable.

...but you don't have to do that, and while it might be the expected culture in places like Silicon Valley, it's simply not elsewhere. Despite my rants, I have a decently paid job, with a great team, good & understanding boss, really interesting and challenging work, and a decent holiday allowance. I genuinely enjoy my time at work, it's the sort of thing I might do for a hobby otherwise! I also genuinely enjoy my time away from work with family of course, but I've never felt the need to monetise my side hobbies. I can't believe that my experience is really *that* rare.

@AlmondSauce not about monetising the side projects.

Also, as long as you are working 8 hours a day and not stressing yourself out then it should be fine.

The article is about either being underpaid or overworked.

@Floydimus Sure, but that's the part I disagree with.

The article (somewhat sneakily IMHO) compares working hours to the rest of Europe, but earnings to the UK around 15 years ago. If you want to compare working hours with the rest of Europe, you need to compare earnings with the rest of Europe too - and while the UK certainly doesn't come out anywhere near *top* of that, it's much better than average. I'm not sure it supports the author's conclusion that the UK workforce as a whole is overworked and underpaid (and that's distinct from being stressed out, which it provides no sources for whatsoever.)

There's also massive disparity within the UK as well - average earnings in an old Welsh mining village is going to be significantly different from London. In fairness, I don't know how similar that is elsewhere - though I suspect the disparity is a lot greater in the UK than some other places.

@AlmondSauce well a lot of these articles are written to create a biased view to gain clicks and eyeballs.

So I am not surprised that author has mislead the non-critically thinking mass audience (me included?)

But I understand your point that the comparison in the article is unfair.

@rutee07 lol how?

@rutee07 @Floydimus there is a very easy way to be a billionaire.
First, buy a dozen eggs, a few oranges and a jug of detergent.
Then go to Venezuela or Zimbabwe.
Sell those items for eight wheelbarrows worth of moneys.
There. You could be a trillionaire.
I literally have a $10000000 (that's ten million dollars) bill in my wallet. From Zimbabwe.

@JsonBoa you from Zimbabwe?

@Floydimus Nope, but I've been to South Africa, and they sell 10 million Zimbabwe dollar bills on the street as souvenirs. Costs about the same as a can of coke.
Things for tourists are always overpriced...

@JsonBoa is it even safe and sensible to travel to Zimbabwe even as a tourist?

@Floydimus never been there, but I imagine it's almost the same risk as Mexico, Brazil, Ucraine, Egypt, South Africa, Thailand, Indonesia...
In the world we live, pretty much every country has tourist and finance centers that are as gentrified as Monaco and tough places as dangerous as war zones.
Capitalism!

@JsonBoa I get it and that makes sense.