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To: THE ANT who wrote (96523)	11/13/2012 12:59:56 PM
From: dan6	5 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218863

<70 hours...> Thank you, klaser (and all) for your thoughtful responses. I hope you know how fortunate you are to find such satisfaction from your work. Let me tell you, this is not the experience of most people. (In fact, my local newspaper has had Letters to the Editor recently about a spate of physician suicides in my community.) My most satisfying job was mowing lawns when I was in my 20s and it has been all downhill from there. I am thankful for the egalitarian nature of the internet that allows me to sneak in (mostly as a lurker) to this gentleman's club here. At a bricks-and-mortar club, the doorman wouldn't have let me through the door. I have never had a career, but have never been a wastrel either. My peer group might be called "clean hippies" (though my hair hasn't been long for decades). If anything, my "career" has been to figure out how to live a rich and meaningful life without money or a career. I have had some positive national and local impact in my fields of interest. 'Nuff about me... While a career is certainly one avenue to a "life of the mind," it is by no means the only one. A lifetime of exploration leads me to think that the more satisfaction people are able to achieve outside of work, the less stress is placed on the economy and society as a whole... Slightly off-topic, I remember reading years ago that In Japanese corporations the general policy was to ease their more senior employees out of positions of authority so that young bucks could take their place. They were still valued for their long and broad experience, but it made for a more graceful transition. I seem to recall that the retirement age in Turkey is 45. (Is this possible?) There are a lot of ways to skin a cat...