markarsenal
8-21-14, 11:28am
Hello, I've lurked here forever but only yesterday decided to sign up so I could start posting.
I have been drawn to simple living several times in my adult life. Each time it seems to be at a time of great insecurity, where I start assessing what I have and how much it costs to maintain and whether I really want to put that energy into it all.
Things are that way again right now in earnest. I've spent 12 years feeling like my job was not very secure, only to always be spared through repeated rounds of layoffs. However, the cards are that this can't last forever (eventually the "last" layoff will happen).
I have my life down to some fairly bare essentials, though. And knowing that without my day work I could bring it to even more bare essentials is comforting.
My dilemma is that I'm still a perpetual worrier and I spend my time working and focused on money rather than networking and focused on people. This is great on one hand because I'm a self-sufficient person who has never had to ask for help, but not handy when that time comes that I might have to ask for help and realize I don't have anyone around to ask!
Anyway, we'll see if this place can give me some insight on making the leap toward a more community-minded person on top of my already well-rounded financial minimalism. Who knows, it might bring work ideas that have long-lasting potential rather than an ever-threatening dead-end!
I have been drawn to simple living several times in my adult life. Each time it seems to be at a time of great insecurity, where I start assessing what I have and how much it costs to maintain and whether I really want to put that energy into it all.
Things are that way again right now in earnest. I've spent 12 years feeling like my job was not very secure, only to always be spared through repeated rounds of layoffs. However, the cards are that this can't last forever (eventually the "last" layoff will happen).
I have my life down to some fairly bare essentials, though. And knowing that without my day work I could bring it to even more bare essentials is comforting.
My dilemma is that I'm still a perpetual worrier and I spend my time working and focused on money rather than networking and focused on people. This is great on one hand because I'm a self-sufficient person who has never had to ask for help, but not handy when that time comes that I might have to ask for help and realize I don't have anyone around to ask!
Anyway, we'll see if this place can give me some insight on making the leap toward a more community-minded person on top of my already well-rounded financial minimalism. Who knows, it might bring work ideas that have long-lasting potential rather than an ever-threatening dead-end!