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straightlinespeed said

Good question, may sound stupid but I've been thinking a lot (for a long time now) about why are we on this earth, what do I want to accomplish etc.. Well although a good job and health insurance is nice, and we have a comfortable life. I dont feel like if I continue this route I will be fulfilled and happy with my life. I dont think Im here to eat, sleep, work, repeat, and then when I can finally retire, go out and enjoy it. I dont know how my health will be when I retire. Im healthy now and I want to make the most of this life while I have my health and the time. If things dont work out Im still young enough I can get decent employment if I need to return.

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My first kob out of college, I was sent to Arkansas to work in the company's manufacturing plant... There was an older engineer there named Stu that had been there forever and was three years away from retirement... He was a good guy, but kept to himself usually... He wouldn't volunteer any information to us, but if we asked him, he would tell us that they tried that years ago and it failed and this is why... He was kind of our mentor...

One day while I was there, he got pissed off at our current plant manager (president of the design headquarters nephew) and called the old plant manager from that plant that was now working at a joint venture plant in Kentucky to transfer there to complete his work and retire... I left the company a year later and one day ran into one of my coworkers at my new job and asked about Stu... The guy told me that Stu recently passed away... He was so close to retiring and never got to retire... I felt bad for him....

All those years of drinking and smoking caught up to him...