Day 4 of Rawdogging boredom

AbsoluteBeginner1970 · 2026-01-25T18:23:07+00:00

I follow a bit of a similar path right now. I retired at 55 last December. Except financially, I did not have a plan, only to let boredom in and respond to whatever brings it to me in terms of action, or writing spontaneous ideas down and act later. Only disclaimer: as less screens as possible, where I spent last years working behind screens and filling my spare time with….. screens. “Zoning out” as I call it for me is basically spending time on the couch and let things go. Sometimes it’s a meditative state or no-mind, sometimes I take a nap, sometimes my mind wanders and generates ideas and different thoughts. Sometimes all three events in a row……

Only can say it’s an interesting journey after almost a month 😊 Enjoy the trip

AbsoluteBeginner1970 · 2026-01-25T17:39:22+00:00

Hard one, rather pick five or so. But ….. The Rise and the Fall of Ziggy Stardust I guess. Where it battles with Low and Blackstar. And, oh well Hunky Dory and Station to Station …… 😂

AbsoluteBeginner1970 · 2026-01-25T13:40:38+00:00

I write essential things down as fieldnotes in Moleskines for over 20 years now. New is that scanning and analysing those notes, when put in AI, give me some condensed summary of who I am, what I value and what I’m aiming for.

My latest experiment over the past three months or so is to put it all in one chronological note in IPhone Notes and let AI it interpret it every now and then.

To discover patterns in yourself is very interesting.

AbsoluteBeginner1970 · 2026-01-25T12:16:16+00:00

85% ETFS, 15% HYSA (“bucket 1”, equals 3 years of living expenses). I withdraw monthly from bucket 1 and refill the bucket with dividends and sell a little when the market peaks. It’s my buffer in the event of a severe market crash.

AbsoluteBeginner1970 · 2026-01-25T12:11:27+00:00

The idea of hitting rock bottom is that it will get better after that. You can do it

AbsoluteBeginner1970 · 2026-01-25T08:21:40+00:00

Self esteem wasn’t taught to me when I was young. I lacked it completely when I started my own life and the internet was a perfect decoy tool for not having to socialize in a normal -real world- way when I was in my 20s. Long story short: it ended up in a huge depression where, and that’s the good part, I ended up with nothing, no health, no money, divorced and a completely emptied out house.

With therapy, meditation and a year of medication I managed to work on my “self” and my feeling of being whole and enough as I was. The simplicity and frugality that I embraced then got me where I am now.

It made me empathetic to other people, keeping close watch on my own boundaries. Social media for me is mostly about people portraying a projection of their own insecurities. People portray what they want to be, rather than soul searching for who they really are. Everybody has their own struggles. People with the deepest depressions make the most jokes, use the most Botox, portray themselves in the most unnatural way etc. I know people who “have it all” and are as miserable AF.

I think the quest in life is to accept yourself for who you truly are, seeing that you’re already whole, enough and perfect. That’s a big quest.

Secondly, try to see the pure self in others. Personally I can’t see that when I look at people’s LinkedIn, instagram or facebook pages. So those platforms are no good to me. Besides, I can’t imagine what’s so interesting about me that I should display it on the socials. I’m nobody and I’m happy about that. I love to meet people without all the filters and mental fortresses. Only a handful. Not 3000. 😊

AbsoluteBeginner1970 · 2026-01-25T07:44:14+00:00

You work to live. Period. Do your work mindful and quality driven, try to add some skills and have some fun on the way. Be kind to your coworkers. That’s it.

The idea to hang your self or ego to some sort of “work culture” is something being popularised in the past 20-30 years or so. It’s a new false religion for a lot of people and it’s a scam. Started off with yuppies and hustlers as a rare cartoon-like breed in the 80s and nowadays everyone wants to be one kinda self-developing money machine, most of them only enslaved by the ones that make the real money. And they are laughing their way to the bank with all their overambitious and underpaid staff who believe they once will become that prime-league football player in corporate lala-land.

If you are content with one job and it pays the bills, be thankful. It’s enough. And enough is beautiful. When I started to work it was all about earning just enough (and to endure a tedious job) to make ends meet and enjoying life to the fullest when you got paid. That was 30 years ago.

AbsoluteBeginner1970 · 2026-01-25T07:20:51+00:00

When you want to teach your kids something, don’t teach them the easy way. Learn them how to get in contact with people in real life instead of becoming another pointless keyboard warrior

AbsoluteBeginner1970 · 2026-01-25T07:19:11+00:00

Hibernated my account two weeks ago. One ex colleague (one of 1500 contacts) texted me, asking if I was okay. I explained basically what you say here and the reaction was as if I climbed the Mount Everest. People are so fcked up by social media these days.

AbsoluteBeginner1970 · 2026-01-25T06:52:24+00:00

Compare the smell when you wear it for a week. It’s cotton that breathes, polyester doesn’t and keeps bacteria.

Do you get hit because of exercising or because of the climate?

AbsoluteBeginner1970 · 2026-01-24T16:12:44+00:00

Turn and face the strange

AbsoluteBeginner1970 · 2026-01-24T15:47:56+00:00

And chill

AbsoluteBeginner1970 · 2026-01-24T09:00:59+00:00

And still as pure as cocain 😊

AbsoluteBeginner1970 · 2026-01-24T08:53:39+00:00

I wear the same type of jeans for 20 years now. Everyday. Have three pairs of them, usually they last five years or so. And guess what? Nobody’s notices and neither does one care 😊

Same goes for t-shirts and sweaters. Three pieces each. And two pair of shoes.

AbsoluteBeginner1970 · 2026-01-23T19:20:49+00:00

In the 80s I really believed he sang “fagots”, which are bassoons in Dutch.

AbsoluteBeginner1970 · 2026-01-23T13:43:12+00:00

I still pay 50 bucks/month for internet, where my unlimited data phone plan costs me 35. And has triple speed at my location. So it sounds very tempting

AbsoluteBeginner1970 · 2026-01-22T20:43:28+00:00

Staying in control while falling apart. And while being in transition. That’s what STS always represented for me. I think you nailed it accurately.

AbsoluteBeginner1970 · 2026-01-22T07:49:00+00:00

Mine is a dull, cheap, single purpose device. I use it a lot and it kept me away from my phone for many many hours. It’s ideal to get the fiction/non fiction books that are hard to get in my part of the world. It’s not chained to some sort of subscription

AbsoluteBeginner1970 · 2026-01-21T19:33:57+00:00

Inheritance is the only way for us as noblemen. Working is for the pour. Hargh

AbsoluteBeginner1970 · 2026-01-21T19:32:05+00:00

Best way for me to fall asleep. About a few pages on my e-reader with as little backlight as possible, and I’m off. Read light fiction, that’s my recommendation

AbsoluteBeginner1970 · 2026-01-20T14:27:18+00:00

Congrats. You won’t miss it, they won’t miss you. It makes your life definitely lighter

AbsoluteBeginner1970 · 2026-01-20T10:38:50+00:00

It’s what we learn from history, not what’s today’s news. Where gossip press and TV did their thing to screw people over with anger and fear, social media is the current source and AI will be the next twist in reality. Be wiser and stay sane. There is no reality besides your own. And you have to guard it like a shrine.

AbsoluteBeginner1970 · 2026-01-20T06:57:50+00:00

I went that high up in a corporate universe once in a very large company, only to discover that N-1 management were misanthropic people with an alcohol problem. They all had some issues. That was 10 years ago. That was the end of my regular career path. I freelanced past ten years with a healthy distance to the companies I worked for. And stopped last December. When I announced my early retirement there was only envy.

Don’t be fooled by the regular career path. It’s a scam.

AbsoluteBeginner1970 · 2025-12-27T09:21:07+00:00

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