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Great oldie by The Onion
« on: June 12, 2015, 08:41:24 AM »
So browsing the Internet, I ran across this old gem from The Onion:  http://www.theonion.com/article/temp-hides-fun-fulfilling-life-from-rest-of-office-49

The last paragraph really hit it out of the park and I just had to share.

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"They wanted to go for the brass ring and really live the good life," Braxton said. "What they don't seem to get is that the key to living the good life is to avoid that brass ring like the fucking plague."

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Re: Great oldie by The Onion
« Reply #1 on: June 12, 2015, 06:05:34 PM »
Brilliant!

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Re: Great oldie by The Onion
« Reply #2 on: June 12, 2015, 06:55:01 PM »
This was great.


On a side note, did anyone else notice how much shorter Onion articles have gotten? Has our collective attention span shrunk that much in a little over a decade?

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Re: Great oldie by The Onion
« Reply #3 on: June 13, 2015, 07:59:54 PM »
Love it.

We should start a thread compiling all the Onion articles relevant to Mustachianism (mostly the money or work ones).
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Re: Great oldie by The Onion
« Reply #4 on: June 14, 2015, 06:52:34 AM »
Are Onion pieces supposed to be inspiring?

Maybe the way for me to do this would be to go part-time. Although, I've been talking with DW about a retirement gig that would be pretty easy and fun. Doesn't pay well of course. But if we don't spend much, it would be freedom.

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Re: Great oldie by The Onion
« Reply #5 on: June 14, 2015, 07:36:43 AM »
That's awesome! Thanks for sharing.

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Re: Great oldie by The Onion
« Reply #6 on: June 17, 2015, 09:11:20 AM »
If we're adding Mustache-related Onion articles, I loved this headline:

Health Experts Recommend Standing Up At Desk, Leaving Office, Never Coming Back

http://www.theonion.com/article/health-experts-recommend-standing-up-at-desk-leavi-37957

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Re: Great oldie by The Onion
« Reply #7 on: June 22, 2015, 06:47:20 PM »
This is great! I know the "air of dissatisfaction" so well ... brass rings be damned!


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Re: Great oldie by The Onion
« Reply #8 on: June 23, 2015, 09:31:12 AM »
This is how I feel every time I have mentioned our FIRE plans to somebody, I am better off to wipe the smirk from my face and play along that I'll be miserable for the next 30 years too, lest we escape this self imposed servitude long before those who have 'put in their time'.  I really think someone should rewrite this article from a FIRE prospective, I would volunteer, but my sense of humor is absolutely terrible.
Thanks for posting  seanc0x0.

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Re: Great oldie by The Onion
« Reply #9 on: June 26, 2015, 10:37:11 PM »
Loved it.  Thanks for sharing.

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Re: Great oldie by The Onion
« Reply #10 on: June 28, 2015, 08:25:15 PM »
Nice read.  I wonder if that guy has kept up the same lifestyle for the last 13 years?

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Re: Great oldie by The Onion
« Reply #11 on: July 01, 2015, 06:38:53 PM »

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Re: Great oldie by The Onion
« Reply #12 on: July 17, 2015, 12:05:28 PM »
Funny, I just logged in to post an Onion article myself...

http://www.theonion.com/article/unambitious-loser-with-happy-fulfilling-life-still-33233

Nice!  That guy is living my dream. Too bad I got sucked into some soul-sucking career BS I'm slowly working my way out of. :(

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Re: Great oldie by The Onion
« Reply #13 on: July 19, 2015, 08:52:22 AM »
That was awesome. Thanks for the link.

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Re: Great oldie by The Onion
« Reply #14 on: July 20, 2015, 11:13:27 AM »
As a relatively successful associate who hopes to make partner at his law firm, I can confirm that the more success I experience, the more miserable I am.

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Re: Great oldie by The Onion
« Reply #15 on: July 20, 2015, 12:43:02 PM »
If we're adding Mustache-related Onion articles, I loved this headline:

Health Experts Recommend Standing Up At Desk, Leaving Office, Never Coming Back

http://www.theonion.com/article/health-experts-recommend-standing-up-at-desk-leavi-37957
This one's awesome, thanks for sharing :)

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Re: Great oldie by The Onion
« Reply #16 on: July 20, 2015, 01:57:10 PM »
As a relatively successful associate who hopes to make partner at his law firm, I can confirm that the more success I experience, the more miserable I am.

Out of curiosity, if that's the case, why do you want to make partner (continuing and presumably increasing the misery)? Do you need to make partner in order to FIRE?

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Re: Great oldie by The Onion
« Reply #17 on: July 20, 2015, 11:10:02 PM »
To the OP, thanks for the link to that story, it was hilarious, its something about the picture in the article that just makes it that much better.

After reading this article, I realized how much more enjoyable the Onion's news is compared to the real world news articles.  In the future, I may need to start to get all my news from the Onion.

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Re: Great oldie by The Onion
« Reply #18 on: July 21, 2015, 08:19:58 AM »
As a relatively successful associate who hopes to make partner at his law firm, I can confirm that the more success I experience, the more miserable I am.

Out of curiosity, if that's the case, why do you want to make partner (continuing and presumably increasing the misery)? Do you need to make partner in order to FIRE?

Hmmm... I don't know that making partner will increase the misery.  The firm has told me pretty directly that I've maxed my compensation as an associate, and that continued success in bringing in clients won't do anything more for me.  That actually lifted somewhat of a weight off of me, even while it pissed me off.  Most of the stuff I hate has to do with law firm politics where senior partners shit on associates who have big clients, so I think some of that would go away (but not all).  But more than anything else, making partner is a shorter route to FIRE than anything else I realistically have any shot at.

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Re: Great oldie by The Onion
« Reply #19 on: July 21, 2015, 08:24:08 AM »
After reading this article, I realized how much more enjoyable the Onion's news is compared to the real world news articles.  In the future, I may need to start to get all my news from the Onion.

This! Standard news reporting is only making me depressed.

I stopped reading or watching the news a few years back and don't miss it at all.

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Re: Great oldie by The Onion
« Reply #20 on: July 21, 2015, 10:27:30 AM »
As a relatively successful associate who hopes to make partner at his law firm, I can confirm that the more success I experience, the more miserable I am.

Out of curiosity, if that's the case, why do you want to make partner (continuing and presumably increasing the misery)? Do you need to make partner in order to FIRE?

Hmmm... I don't know that making partner will increase the misery.  The firm has told me pretty directly that I've maxed my compensation as an associate, and that continued success in bringing in clients won't do anything more for me.  That actually lifted somewhat of a weight off of me, even while it pissed me off.  Most of the stuff I hate has to do with law firm politics where senior partners shit on associates who have big clients, so I think some of that would go away (but not all).  But more than anything else, making partner is a shorter route to FIRE than anything else I realistically have any shot at.

Hi gReed Smith, I was just taking your statement of more success = more misery to its logical conclusion. Since partner = more success (than associate), thus partner = more misery. Good to hear that you don't think being partner would actually be more miserable!

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Re: Great oldie by The Onion
« Reply #21 on: July 21, 2015, 10:36:48 AM »
FrugalShrew,  I understood.  It was a worthwhile thought exercise for me to consider why I even want to be a partner.  I have recently been contemplating why I work so hard when success seems to actually increase my displeasure with my job.  I do plan on cutting my efforts back because I can't gain any more marginal reward, but I can bring more political bullshit down on my head.

 

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