Or be thrown clear and discover that a pine tree is tougher than a human neck. The discovery did not last long and her fiancé still goes through Hell around the anniversary of that accident.
Next November 16th will be the 25th anniversary.
You obviously read different economists than I do. What I have read is that a $15 minimum wage might raise the cost of a burger by a dime. And actual data shows it does not cost jobs. And, most importantly, those minimum wage employees tend to spend every cent they make so that the added money boosts the economy.
I agree with this. Add bugs, insects, and creepy crawlers, which all thrive in a tropical climate.
Owning a Ferrari or other fancy foreign high performance car. Your insurance rates skyrocket, it’s $500 (or more) for an oil change, you may be afraid to drive it for fear of the smallest fender bender, you fear it being stolen.
Having breakfast in bed is a standard cliche, but many people don’t like it.
Horse bourguinon is quite lovely, heart en casserole [diced into 1 inch cubes, excess blood and clots rinsed away in salt water, then stewed with chopped onion, garlic and italian herbs in red wine at a low temp for hours until meltingly tender and served with sourdough bread … nom!] ground into burger meat and made into meatloaf, meatballs italian style [ok, italian wedding soup…] and horseburgers on the grill …
Meh, I grew up with servants at my grandparents, and my mom had maids and I had a nanny … and have vacationed at a resort and on cruise ships that had that type of service. You learn to drop your used clothing into the hamper instead of tossing it all over the floor, and you deal with wet towels and such a bit more neatly than if you were home alone. No sense in being an asshole and just trashing the places. You still say please and thank you when asking for a service or receiving a service. As they were my family servants, one doesn’t tip at the time of service, but you do give birthday and christmas presents and typically a cash bonus around the holidays, though when traveling and at a hotel, resort or cruise you tip at the time of service [well the room service gets tipped at the end of the vacation.] You probably will get walked in upon at least one in a naked/almost naked/in the shower/in bed and you just deal with it, it is just as embarrassing for the servant as it is for you.
Depends. Younger people love it. Its the people with families who find it difficult.
It’s way too easy to tip over that little lap-tray, then your leisurely morning is spoiled by having to strip the bed quickly before the pot of tea you just spilled soaks down into the mattress. I know this.
I recall reading somewhere that protesting against the presence of U.S. military forces is or was something of a national pastime in South Korea, but that whenever the U.S. government has appeared to seriously consider withdrawing its forces from South Korea, the South Koreans suddenly say, No, we didn’t *really *mean for you to leave! Stay!
Everybody hates tenants. Everyone loves collecting rent.
Nothing much to see here.
Open borders. Unless you keep all your doors unlocked 24/7/365 you should already know that’s a terrible idea.
At my family’s homes, the reasoning to bring your clothes to the hampers and separate them by colors was precisely the lack of servants. Being polite to whomever will do the laundry does not require them to be paid for it.
I’ve never liked the hotel parts and one of the reasons I’d like to go in-house has been the effect of too much airport food on my ass-size, but I still like the actual traveling. Many of my coworkers have very sharp household divisions; others are empty-nesters. The ones who dislike traveling the most are those with little kids, and not always.
For a few years I had an apartment right on the beach, on the south shore of Long Island. I was overjoyed when I first found the place. I was working nights at the time, so I’d be able to spend all day on the beach, bicycling up and down the boardwalk, listening to the surf and the cry of the sea gulls.
The first summer started out like that, but after a while became quite boring. By the end of the summer I was bored out of my skull. By the time the second summer came, I hardly went out to the beach, only for brief walks, never to just lie in the sun. I actually liked the beach a lot more in winter … and in a hurricane. And I never want to hear another sea gull again.
I think it depends on the frequency and nature of travelling. Consultants (of which I think you are one) seem to travel 50-60 times a year, and that is very very hard on family life.
For me, its perhaps twice a month out of town and perhaps half a dozen times overseas. I can easily maintain that even after I get married.
That kind of frequency is a pain in all parts of the body, frankly, even without involving family life. In one of my projects we lost one person (dude in his late 50s) because it was in Middle of Nowhere, France, three of us (dude, me and a guy whose wife did 99.999% of the childrearing) wanted to rent a flat there and stay every other weekend, but the team leader (one 3yo, one 5yo) could not conceive of “not going home” (IME, not doing something is often a lot easier than doing, but what do I know). There was even one weekend that we flew home, he met his wife and kids at the kids’ school, they took the kids to the grandparents’ and flew back to spend the weekend in Paris - I get tired just thinking of it. Bossman couldn’t conceive of “not going home”, I was having fits thinking of being on the freaking Channel area for half a year and not taking advantage of the weekends to do some sightseeing :smack:
For the last two months of that project I was the only one on site, so I flew home only once. And I stayed at an aparthotel, where the room you get has a kitchenette so it’s pretty much a serviced studio. And I went to Mount Saint Michel, and to Caen and to… 
I’ve had other projects which involved relocation but zero travel, and one on the ingenieros Telefónica (named after the company which made it commonplace) schedule of traveling to a Latin American site for 89 days, spending 32 days back home and back onsite. This last version is much less stressful, even for people whose family is an ocean away.
I’m not the poster you were responding to, but :
Yes.
Trust me, it doesn’t. And I can’t see it setting in even in 30 years. I’m definitely not afraid of retiring and finding myself bored. At least not until a deteriorating health limits me severely.
People are very different. What doesn’t work for you can work perfectly well for plenty of other people.
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I am utterly lost without structure. I know plenty of people who really struggled after retirement because of similar issues.
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Even though I’ve known people who need to be provided with structure, it never occured to me that it could a problem for retirement. Another example of people being different.
And yet another hobby to prevent boredom : providing structure.
If someone needs a job in order to provide structure, then that seems a rather tragic way to get “structure.” Time is finite and life is short; working an unnecessary job for “structure’s” sake is sad.
I think another thing that is popular, but often backfires, is the idea that people can identify as whatever or whomever they want. In theory, it sounds like freedom and identity-self-consciousness power, but then you end up with situations like Rachel Dolezal, or perhaps you might have white Caucasian students deliberately claiming to be of a minority race so they can get affirmative action.
Speaking of minimum wage, the concept that “minimum wage jobs are for teenagers.” How would that even work?! Teenagers are in school during the day, which means all restaurants, retail stores, banks, daycare centers, and every other job that depends on minimum wage workers would either be closed during the day, or be staffed entirely by high-school drop-outs.
Nitpick: whoever
Is it actually a popular idea? I have never heard of anyone actually in favor of the idea, the only people who talk about ‘people can identify as whatever or whomever they want’ are people critical of things like non-standard gender identity. I’m very skeptical of any ‘popular idea’ that only the opponents of the idea actually talk about.