(03-12-2019, 05:44 PM)GTBrandon Wrote: I guess I'm curious why all of you say it's easy to get trapped in a job or location?
Inertia's a bitch - humans tend to discount the cost of doing nothing (e.g. unhappiness, regret) and overvalue the cost of lifestyle changes (e.g. money, regret). It's easy to say "I'm just going to stick it out for x more time" and see if job/location/relationship/whatever plays out in my favor. They rarely do.
There are opportunities and high paying places in a lot of places. If you move and regret it, you can move back. Moving costs money, but not as much as wondering what might have been the rest of your life.
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"Here, at last, is the cure for texting while driving. The millions of deaths which occur every year due to the iPhone’s ability to stream the Kim K/Ray-J video in 4G could all be avoided, every last one of them, if the government issued everyone a Seventies 911 and made sure they always left the house five minutes later than they’d wanted to. It would help if it could be made to rain as well. Full attention on the road. Guaranteed." -Jack Baruth