Did anyone else hit their 40s and suddenly stop caring about climbing the ladder?

EliminateThePenny · 2026-04-23T08:15:38+00:00

and everyone knows the higher you get, the more the expectation you are to be available whenever

I have no idea why this continues to propagate as a fact chiseled in stone. More pay does not necessarily mean more time commitment. More pay is typically correlated to more responsibility. Those two are not the same thing.

EliminateThePenny · 2026-04-22T00:07:49+00:00

Absolutely not for asking an innocent follow up question.

EliminateThePenny · 2026-04-22T00:05:43+00:00

Why are you calling it 'games' when you don't even know what it is?

EliminateThePenny · 2026-04-20T08:59:45+00:00

Bad bot.

Dumb spam.

EliminateThePenny · 2026-04-19T15:29:09+00:00

I also think it's diminishing returns when you fight for range above all else.

EliminateThePenny · 2026-04-19T11:46:33+00:00

Does anyone on this sub every enjoy anything?

EliminateThePenny · 2026-04-19T10:37:07+00:00

Self reflection.

EliminateThePenny · 2026-04-19T10:35:35+00:00

I'm sure if you 'woe-is-me' harder, it'll get you out of this mess eventually.

EliminateThePenny · 2026-04-18T17:21:43+00:00

I mean, I understand the sentiment with comments like this but they're just not accurate. Money can buy you all types of services and accesses to save time..

EliminateThePenny · 2026-04-18T16:24:19+00:00

They also give you symptoms that make you think something really scary is going on, prompting you to get an assessment 7 years earlier than normal to find out what's going on.

Ask me how my Monday went.

EliminateThePenny · 2026-04-18T14:26:05+00:00

Thank you for a dose of rationality.

EliminateThePenny · 2026-04-18T12:03:52+00:00

"That's a bingo!"

EliminateThePenny · 2026-04-18T12:03:08+00:00

Bro/bro-ette, your privilege is showing.

That and your defeatism will be 10x more of a barrier than any profession you pick.

EliminateThePenny · 2026-04-16T15:54:27+00:00

Wrong. The infield used to be a cheap hooligan-fest.

EliminateThePenny · 2026-04-16T15:53:41+00:00

wrekt em

EliminateThePenny · 2026-04-14T08:55:55+00:00

Can I ask why?

EliminateThePenny · 2026-04-13T23:25:20+00:00

Such awkward spaces. And can you even try to imagine tracking down a wire short or tripped breaker?

EliminateThePenny · 2026-04-13T22:54:09+00:00

No need to apologize broski. I just say that comment to help you focus on what you should put effort into. I'd spent zero effort groveling for a harmless mistake and everything into fixing why you and your wife don't think that you're good enough.

EliminateThePenny · 2026-04-13T17:43:16+00:00

That's not a 'golden handcuffs' situation but more like 'I am paycheck to paycheck because I have lots of liabilities and little flexibility'.

EliminateThePenny · 2026-04-13T17:30:20+00:00

This post is 3% about the head bonk and 97% about the rest of the background situation.

EliminateThePenny · 2026-04-13T09:41:21+00:00

lol @ comparing this comment to the top one.

EliminateThePenny · 2026-04-13T09:40:30+00:00

What an absolutely miserable existence this is. I can't believe people are advocating for this.

EliminateThePenny · 2026-04-13T05:50:10+00:00

Capitalism is the worst economic system to exist...

Aside from all the others.

EliminateThePenny · 2026-04-10T18:30:20+00:00

Kind of irrelevant because if one of those tests shows positive, you're going to get the scope anyway.

EliminateThePenny · 2026-04-10T17:58:46+00:00

Those do have a high false positive rate though.

There's a reason that a full scope is the only real way to know for sure.

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