• Skip to main content
  • Skip to secondary menu
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Over The Reef

Sailboats, fishing, environmental policy, and other interests of Joe Wagner

Time Wasters

January 19, 2016 by Joe

“I took a new job—it pays less but I can work as much overtime as I want to make up the difference.”

“I paid a little more for the car than I was comfortable with but I can make it up by working Saturdays.”

I know there are times when overtime is necessary. Maybe there are problems at work and you’re behind. Or, maybe you’re short-staffed at work because someone quit or they’re out on vacation. Sometimes, things happen at home and you need to pay some extra bills.

What I find disturbing is seeing people choosing careers and lifestyles that force or depend on long hours at work when they have alternatives that offer more free time. I know, everyone has their reasons—I just don’t understand most of them.

Dogs like days off spent hiking...
Dogs like days off spent hiking…

Those two quotes up there—I’ve heard variants of them a lot lately. I don’t understand why you would choose to have less free time. Time is the only thing that we have that we can’t make more of; we can’t get it back after we’ve lost it. Yet people choose things like new cars or career changes that guarantee less free time. Why is this? Is it something new or is it something that has been around since the monetary system started?
Maybe some people just don’t know what to do with themselves when they’re not working. I don’t believe that it’s just greed or desire for more money. If that’s the case then why not go all in and get into investment banking or something extremely lucrative. Don’t just hang out in the blue-collar world and work overtime to keep up with your white-collar neighbors. It doesn’t matter; no one looks back on their lives and wishes they bought more new cars or had a bigger living room when they were 40 years old.

Get out—go fishing, hiking, take your dog for a long walk, take the kid out for a bike ride. Remember, time is our only non-renewable resource.

Filed Under: Policy and People

Primary Sidebar

Categories

  • Boats (6)
  • Environment (5)
  • etc…. (1)
  • Featured (5)
  • Night Fishing Stories (4)
  • Outdoors (2)
  • Policy and People (12)
  • Uncategorized (1)

If you’d like to comment or ask a question, don’t hesitate to contact me!

Contact Me

About Me:

A little about me…I’m Joe. I like to learn, and I’m interested in just about anything.

You can usually find me outside- Maybe fishing on a lake or beach, hiking with my dogs, camping in the woods, or trying to sail.

Or, trying to learn a language (mostly unsuccessfully) or reading about who-knows-what.  Quite often, you’ll find me out working on the car or building something in the garage.

Read on…hopefully you’ll find something here that interests you.

Visit my other sites:

writing services for business and aerospace The Academy that brings the outdoors inside, brings adventure into your classroom, and educates while entertaining

Recent Posts

  • Bristol 26- Replacing the chainplate knees on the galley side
  • Filling deck holes on the Bristol 26
  • What “We Need You to Go Get Help” Really Means: Lessons Learned from a Wilderness Experience.
  • How to tell if you’re a mindless partisan
  • Bristol 26- Rebuilding the shelf and chainplate knee in the dinette area (Part II)

Copyright © 2021 · Magazine Pro on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in · 2019 Over the Reef, LLC.