Posted on 07/26/2018 6:17:20 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Sarah Solomon had a pretty sweet life. The 20-something publicist was always out at fashion events, dinners and parties — and even hung out with John Legend during Fashion Week.
“It was definitely New York glamourous — the black dress, leather pants and high heels, and an hour putting on my makeup,” says Solomon. “Anyone would think I had a really fun life, meeting cool people and celebrities.”
But she yearned for something more and resented only having two weeks of vacation a year. So, last August, she quit her seemingly great job at a plum downtown p.r. firm.
“I wanted to travel more — I didn’t want to have to ask for time off and grovel for extra days, you know?” says Solomon, now 25 and living in a rental house in Kauai, Hawaii, overlooking the beach.
Over the past 10 months, she’s scaled volcanoes in Guatemala, soaked up the waterfalls of Bali, Indonesia, and basked on glorious beaches halfway around the world. She gets by doing freelance p.r. work on the road, so long as she can get decent Wi-Fi in paradise.
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If they are in stressful jobs they decide they don’t like, then it makes sense they would quit.
“and she expects free healthcare and full retirement.”
She knows that when Rahm is reelected she will be getting money for nothing & tax free! $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
https://theintercept.com/2018/07/16/chicago-universal-basic-income-ubi/
With all this talk about government minimum income on the way, is it any wonder??
Why bust your nut when you can vote in the socialist whos gonna guarantee you income for doing NOTHING?
who’s probably still working 65-70 hours a week with two weeks vacation.
I know a freelance graphic designer.. who can barely get work and lives in St. Thomas.
Her water bill is about $800 a month. That place is ridiculous.
I kinda get it...
For a while I earned 6 figures. I was into work by 7:00am, came home at about 7:00pm, after dinner worked at home until 10:00pm or so. Worked most Saturdays. I had 20 paid days off, but those also had to count towards holidays (7 days), sick days and days the company was closed (between Christmas and New Years, usually 5 days). That left 8 days between sick days and vacation days a year.
Then the excrement hit the air oscillator. I went from executive vice president of one of the largest decorated apparel companies in the southeast, living in a $500K house in Fort Lauderdale, to jobless and homeless in three weeks.
It was actually rather freeing. We were adequately insured (paid off the mortgages and a bit for replacing clothes, etc.) and the lot with the burnt out house provided us with enough money to buy a house in New Mexico. We called it our reboot, and we commemorate the day the house burnt down every year as Reboot Day.
We started over at a much reduced pace. Eventually I started my own business, but I get to control how hard I work and I don’t need to worry about some person having a bad day and finding myself unemployed. I don’t make anywhere near what I used to, but my expenses are much lower as well.
Sometimes the cost of busting your hump for someone else is just too high.
Do you want to look back on your life and say, “Well, I worked really hard and made someone else a whole bunch of money...”?
Good post.
If the Dems win she’ll have it too.
That’s what struck me, is some of them sound kind of crazy, with no spiritual grounding.
That said, I read the book “Your Money or Your Life” many years ago and it certainly inspired me to save for early retirement and get out of a job I hated.
These days there are all kinds of early retirement blogs, so that may be inspiring some of their decisions. And the increasing possibility to work remotely while living cheaply overseas.
These kids are all too aware of the massive amounts of government mandated paid vacation the Euros get. They will be voting that in the moment we are no longer the majority, mark my words.
Sorry friend - the jobs you have compared this girl to having are contributing jobs to society.
If you are going to try to convince me that having to get dolled up to hang out at PR events........drink and meet celebs........and only be in the workforce for a handful of years........and complain that 10 days vacation just isn’t enough to “enjoy life”..........not buying it.
This girl had the means going in and has the means coming out. It’s not anything about being “burnt out” as this article portrays. She just didn’t want to work that hard so she packed it and rationalized that it was work stress.
She doesn’t know what work stress is because she’s not locked in to any real form of responsibility except to that of herself.
Maybe the title is off then.
Looking at it from an investment standpoint. Her being so young she could work her tail off and sock away a lot for retirement. With compounding interest over the decades it will grow to a tidy sum. She could still take off a year or more with her current enjoyable lifestyle or go permanent with it while her retirement investments grow plus staying out of debt. Just my opinion.
Didn't want to ask for time off and grovel for extra days. Hmm. Well, if you can get work that lets you avoid that...good on you.
But most of the time, you have to coordinate with someone else.
Did she make that much as a "20-something publicist" to be able to buy airplane tickets to Guatemala and Bali, which aren't cheap, and all that goes with it? She may have. But it sure does sound like she has a sugar daddy.
“There’s nobody on their death bed who will look back and say, “I wish I spent my 20s chained to a desk.””
I wasted my 20s. It’s a regret I wouldn’t wish on anyone.
She may be able to afford those things on her salary. Healthcare, retirement, savings, investments. No way can she fund exotic travel working part time and paying rent on Kauai. The cheapest apartment is $1550 a month, and your food cost are the highest in the country.
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