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This but for real
This is what finally growing up feels like and it's shit
sell all your shit, get an older van with good mechanics (easier to fix)
convert it into a portable house
quit your job, go on an adventure...
NB : you require some savings before you do this, otherwise you just become homeless.
Remember kids, time is money, but money is also time.
Source : Took a year long sabbatical and moved continents and started a family. Please help me, the DGI is on my ass.
Disseminated gonococcal infection is on your ass?
savings is good, but most people longing for such a change aren't in a good position to save up... and you can always make money somewhere else you go to (often, not always)
if you can't, just hobo somewhere you can...
Sure, just giving advice to people who want to do this with a kind of safety net. Doing it "your way" is more risky, but doing it as opposed to not doing it can still be possible, if you're a bit more prudent.
DGI is the acronym for the tax institution in the country I'm in.
you can make money while living in a van...
one of the subs i mentioned is "digital nomads", which is entirely employed people... living nomadically while working online... aka remote...
in r/vagabonds there's a lot of more traditional traveler type work... seasonal stuff...
or you could tend bar or something
remember kids, money is a figment, time is counting down and you will die someday...
you won't regret having adventures... but you will regret being comfortable
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You gonna reply to this?
i see no point in replying to you at this point...
I didn't ask you to reply to me.
i see no point in doing anything you ask me to... which could also be seen as me replying to you
Yeah, no. Plus, you already did. ;)
sometimes i do things that are pointless
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I was just wondering if they were gonna address your point.
Joke?
nope... i know reddit is trash and all... but good info on the subs vandwellers, vagabonds, and digitalnomads...
adventure is always an option...
(and risky and scary...)
there's also adventurous sports, like freediving, camping:hiking... shit like that...
i think skydiving is dumb but a lot of people consider that adventurous...
you could also do protests, volunteer firefighter, become a paramedic...
i have just given you a call to adventure: but will you answer?
Yeah, definitely trolling
I refuse to believe anyone is stupid enough to see this as a realistic option
enjoy sitting in your apartment, doing the exact same thing
every day,
every week,
for the rest of your life...
never changing anything...
take no risks....
a handshake, with carbon monoxide
no alarms and no surprises
p.s. people living lives that are difficult for you to understand are not "stupid"...
you, however, are "ignorant"
you wanted a call to adventure, i gave you one...
read those lyrics again... it's a great song
"I refuse to believe anyone is stupid enough to see this as a realistic option"
yes, you called me stupid... you're stupid if you think i'm trying to tell you every step of the way... like "get a driver license"
you could get a fucking boat, the whole point is choosing your own adventure...
i'm trying to remind you that you are not stuck, you are not too old to have opportunity for adventures... you are comfortable and you are afraid of change.
it quite common, really... but we're not stupid
"This but for real This is what finally growing up feels like and it's shit"
dude, just try to follow along a little with the conversation before getting all defensive.
you're so entrenched in capitalism you think that everything requires a purchase and privilege... but here's a documentary, from the Anarchist Yacht Club on how to get a free yacht (it still requires work)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lwbHYOFD-4
still think i'm out of touch?
this whole conversation began with you saying growing up means no call to adventure... then you called me stupid, then said you didn't call me stupid, then called me an "idiot"
which, btw, is ableist language... people with low intelligence are still qualified to have lives and opinions and conversations...
your complete lack of consistency and character attacks make this "conversation" rather obtuse.
now you're calling me stupid again... but, my dearest friend, i never said it's simple...
it is not simple... but it IS possible...
also, i've done it and have been living a "vagabond" lifestyle most of my privileged life...
i do suppose my intellectual upbringing and natural abilities is a privilege, in that i can confidently hitchhike and enter a city with $0 and a backpack and have a good adventure... my ability to improvise is a privilege...
i didn't start out with any money if that's what you think...
the things that you own, own you...
i can drop everything and go anywhere i want...
my brother will be dying in the next year from cancer... he never traveled very much... he always wanted to get an RV, work remotely, and travel the country...
for years he was mostly teaching online and could've definitely done it...
now he will be (likely) staying in the same town, getting radiation and chemotherapy until he dies... (prognosis 1 year, <10% make it to 5 years)
i'm giving you advice to take chances, change it up, live the adventure that you want... if the steps to that are unclear, then just take steps somewhere and you'll eventually find the path you're looking for...
"This is what finally growing up feels like and it's shit"
i was moved by this. I do not want you to feel like shit... i want you to do something and change that...
"I am uncomfortable and I want change. You are, in fact, stating the opposite of the truth"
you can pretend like you don't know what i mean, but i can tell we're both too smart for that.... but, more accurate than "comfortable" would be complacent.
i grew up poor... like no money for school lunches, second hand clothes, swimming in pollution (i'll probably get cancer too)...
i left home with a shitty old school backpack with a shitty coleman sleeping bag tied to it with a rope...
my privilege was the freedom of having nothing to left lose...
holy shit you're fucking crazy... i didn't read the rest of your stupid screed
wow just... you're the most full of shit person i've ever met online
i'd accuse you of being gpt but that's a lot more self-aware...
liberal hustle-bro? is that your best attempt at concern trolling or something?
what a weak, pathetic, child...
I know I've got you cornered, now, because you gave up on making points and resorted to solely name calling
I called you names, but at least I had rationale and reasoning
you are fake as fuck and pretending to be some arachno-communist... but i know a shill when i see one...