One of my best fruends from high school talked to me about buying bitcoin. Best I understood it, it was for buying in-game purchases, which I thought was a waste of money, so I declined to follow his lead. He retired at the ripe old age of 45, having quit his “suit” job as an automotive engineer, and just dicks around playing tennis and travelling the world now, and of course busts my balls because he told me so. 😫
He regularly posts on Facebook some new diving adventure, or tennis club somewhere in the world he’s currently hanging out at. He has no kids, so he and his wife (his high school sweetheart no less) are just enjoying life.
He still recounts as one of the best days of his life was when he and his wife finally realized he no longer had to work to live well, cashed in all his bitcoins, and then going into his boss’s office to quit. They offerred him a raise to stay, and he was like “No, you don’t understand. I’m quiting.” Then they threatened that he’d never get a good reference from them, and he was like “You’re not getting it. I don’t give a fuck.” Then they pressed him for what company he was moving to, and he was like “I’M NOT. I quit. Entirely, here, and everywhere.” He says even as he was walking out, the whole department was just looking at him like he had just gone insane, still thinking he was making a big fucking mistake.
Had I listened to him, I wouldn’t have to still be setting my alarm every morning either.
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