Not quite what I meant. I just mean what if you had more free time, but not more cash. Sort of what you wanna do for free that you can’t do now because of time restraints.

I’ll edit to rephrase the question.

I don’t know. I’d def hate to be the only woman on that team though!

Ah, the propaedeutic effect? I think that Esperanto shows the “guts” of the grammar faster than other languages do, and that helps learning languages with similar features.

Yep, that’s what they say.

I can tell you exactly what I do, because 25 years ago, I chose to forgo promotions at work and prioritize free time and quality of life over money:

My hero! I just recently retired at 55 for same reason.

Ya just gotta accept and move on.

Even when people seemingly gang up on you for no reason.

If ya fucked up, move on. If you didn’t fuck up (even tho people try to say you did), stand up and stand by what you did.

:)

I’m the same age and I’ve been retired for 25 years

I would have if I could have. But I had to wait until I hit the “20-years in” mark to be able to get my pension. It’s the lowest pension because I’m out early, but like you, I wanna enjoy stuff while I’m still fit and healthy.

My gf is 35, so she kinda sorta tried to talk me out of it. She’s fine with our age difference, but I think she got caught up in “OMG you’re getting a pension!” haha

After she noticed how much I mess around and do whatever I want now, she sorta changed her attitude. But I’ll be honest, she seems to be a little passive-aggressive. Maybe jealous of it?

Even tho she makes more money than I do, she seems a little bit resentful, so I dialed back the “Oh I just read this really good book all day” comments.

Not sure if our relationship will make it. But I don’t care. I have no regrets about retiring early. And now I get to fuck around on Lemmy all day too! haha

Oy, those are tough ones for us English speakers.

Well I get where you are coming from, but the world has changed since you were a kid.

Imagine when he is in school and his friends tell him to scroll and he has no idea how to even scroll?

They won’t. At least here in the US. More and more schools don’t allow kids to even take phones to school and if they do, they have to stay in backpacks. In my state, all schools are like that.

The last school I worked at last year, if a could was caught with a phone, they would take the kids phone and keep it in the office and would only hand it over to a parent

Now the kid does need to be tech-oriented for the modern world. But WAY too many people are addicted to phones. So teaching the kid that life is more than tech is a good thing.

Heck, I’ve even seen posts in this community where people are saying they couldn’t go an entire week with out Youtube and are frustrated with themselves over it.

I’m flying to Vegas this weekend! Let’s see how it goes!

GF actually already has a slight fear of flying, so this should be an adventure trying to calm her down. lol

Whoa! I’m having a tough enough time just learning Esperanto, which is supposed to be easy. But bruh, you are a whole other level. Awesome!