Re: not sure but i'll try Journal
Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2021 8:23 pm
Nice! I bet that was a cool pet.
I have had this nickname for over a decade because a long time ago, I was acting drunk/wild from drinking too much. Back when I was in the military...I tried climbing a tree drunk and jump from branch to branch and someone said I needed to stop acting like I was a Lemur....and then it stuck lol.
Anyways, one more consideration for work only because it may be doing something for me - it could just be that you're bored / need to be challenged. I was given more responsibility and a leadership role for my client work and it hit me into an energized gear I have not felt in a while. I used to shy away from this sort of role...no longer due to social anxieties but because I had erroneously felt it was at odds with FIRE. Why would I want MORE responsibility at work? And probably likewise, MORE Stress? (OTOH it is possible a leadership role could be less stressful then being the worker bee...I get to be the one to create & assign tickets and delegate...not just be the one being assigned the tickets and pinged for status).
But then a point of resilence...as an ERE'er we should be pushing ourselves to grow and challenge. In hindsight, I wish I assigned this to my work-life rather than try to lay low. Most posters here simply try to do this in other areas (ones that do not involved paid work); otherwise, I think it can simply be easier to align work with this challenge while one still feels the need to accumulate assets. Standard work makes that convenient too...for compartmentalization, for eliminating cognitive dissonance, and perhaps even for web of goals. For instance, maybe my leadership role at work will help me develop leadership and project management skills for something I want to do post salaried work one day. I don't have to figure out just now what that is but I can hoard up the skills (just like I do with money) to do so.
I have had this nickname for over a decade because a long time ago, I was acting drunk/wild from drinking too much. Back when I was in the military...I tried climbing a tree drunk and jump from branch to branch and someone said I needed to stop acting like I was a Lemur....and then it stuck lol.
Anyways, one more consideration for work only because it may be doing something for me - it could just be that you're bored / need to be challenged. I was given more responsibility and a leadership role for my client work and it hit me into an energized gear I have not felt in a while. I used to shy away from this sort of role...no longer due to social anxieties but because I had erroneously felt it was at odds with FIRE. Why would I want MORE responsibility at work? And probably likewise, MORE Stress? (OTOH it is possible a leadership role could be less stressful then being the worker bee...I get to be the one to create & assign tickets and delegate...not just be the one being assigned the tickets and pinged for status).
But then a point of resilence...as an ERE'er we should be pushing ourselves to grow and challenge. In hindsight, I wish I assigned this to my work-life rather than try to lay low. Most posters here simply try to do this in other areas (ones that do not involved paid work); otherwise, I think it can simply be easier to align work with this challenge while one still feels the need to accumulate assets. Standard work makes that convenient too...for compartmentalization, for eliminating cognitive dissonance, and perhaps even for web of goals. For instance, maybe my leadership role at work will help me develop leadership and project management skills for something I want to do post salaried work one day. I don't have to figure out just now what that is but I can hoard up the skills (just like I do with money) to do so.