New house bought, a bank loan that needs to be paid, a dog in the yard, one old car in front of the house that keeps on going like a charm, a "half big pay-check". Let us compare to: house, loan, yes pet/no pet, car, "big pay-check". It sounds really good and at first glance that is a definitely YES, I WANT THIS!!
But do you?
Leave for the office at 8:30 AM, work work work until....and now it gets tricky and things move in two directions. One direction is that in which you can work until 06:00 PM and half an hour later to park in front of your home and get busy doing home things and all other types of things you do outside your work-life. Eventually you end-up in front of the Netflix screen when you browse shit for 30 minutes and fall asleep.
The other direction is that in which you work until God knows when, let`s translate God`s hour into 8:00 PM but you feel that your big success every month is that 5 figure pay-check you discover in your Internet banking app on your phone. That one day is all you get as a thank-you note or as a compensation for all the hours you are not home in the evening, for all those guilty pleasures you have and do not happen because you leave the office to late every single day.
This is the moment when all the ignorance in the world steps in and when this "big pay-check" helps us to only pay the loan at the bank for the house, only to pay for gas to drive to the office and only to buy that expensive food from the pub that is near the office building. Those actions are the main activities that you get to do just to get that salary every month and hang on to that job that you thought of all your life.
Now, let`s go back to "half big pay-check". You go to the office, you eat at lunch that same expensive food because there is no other way and.....after 6:00 PM you get to: see a movie, attend a book launch, go to one art gallery, take your girlfriend to a romantic dinner, go ice-skating in the park, go take a ride on a bicycle, go to your favourite shop that closes at 8:00 PM, go take a run with some people you met on-line, go to the local car-dealer and take that test-drive just to change that old car that you think it will last a lifetime :). And there are a lot of other things you can do if you just give yourself those 2 hours between 6 PM and 8 PM every day, every week, every year.
One more example to be compared between the big pay-check and the half one: holidays!
We all think that a person who has that "big pay-check" can go abroad on a holiday 3,4, 5 times in one year, but we are so wrong. And just to be clear about it, tell me one thing that could buy TIME!!! Time is what the guy with the "big pay-check" lacks. Big or half, the pay-check can only give us a 10 day vacation interval. The fun in one holiday is similar taking in consideration that is a holiday on a specific resort.
Now do you really understand what 2 hours mean to us? And how small are the financial differences?
I had my share of a "big pay-check" and now I am really happy working from 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM*.
*working hours in Romania, including one hour lunch break.
But do you?
Leave for the office at 8:30 AM, work work work until....and now it gets tricky and things move in two directions. One direction is that in which you can work until 06:00 PM and half an hour later to park in front of your home and get busy doing home things and all other types of things you do outside your work-life. Eventually you end-up in front of the Netflix screen when you browse shit for 30 minutes and fall asleep.
The other direction is that in which you work until God knows when, let`s translate God`s hour into 8:00 PM but you feel that your big success every month is that 5 figure pay-check you discover in your Internet banking app on your phone. That one day is all you get as a thank-you note or as a compensation for all the hours you are not home in the evening, for all those guilty pleasures you have and do not happen because you leave the office to late every single day.
This is the moment when all the ignorance in the world steps in and when this "big pay-check" helps us to only pay the loan at the bank for the house, only to pay for gas to drive to the office and only to buy that expensive food from the pub that is near the office building. Those actions are the main activities that you get to do just to get that salary every month and hang on to that job that you thought of all your life.
Now, let`s go back to "half big pay-check". You go to the office, you eat at lunch that same expensive food because there is no other way and.....after 6:00 PM you get to: see a movie, attend a book launch, go to one art gallery, take your girlfriend to a romantic dinner, go ice-skating in the park, go take a ride on a bicycle, go to your favourite shop that closes at 8:00 PM, go take a run with some people you met on-line, go to the local car-dealer and take that test-drive just to change that old car that you think it will last a lifetime :). And there are a lot of other things you can do if you just give yourself those 2 hours between 6 PM and 8 PM every day, every week, every year.
One more example to be compared between the big pay-check and the half one: holidays!
We all think that a person who has that "big pay-check" can go abroad on a holiday 3,4, 5 times in one year, but we are so wrong. And just to be clear about it, tell me one thing that could buy TIME!!! Time is what the guy with the "big pay-check" lacks. Big or half, the pay-check can only give us a 10 day vacation interval. The fun in one holiday is similar taking in consideration that is a holiday on a specific resort.
Now do you really understand what 2 hours mean to us? And how small are the financial differences?
I had my share of a "big pay-check" and now I am really happy working from 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM*.
*working hours in Romania, including one hour lunch break.
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