8AM? You’re not the kid, you’re getting 6AM so you can get that kid(s) dressed, fed, washed, etc.
No kids and looking forward to retiring in my mid-30s
this one falls flat. most people have to wake up before 8 to go to work regardless of marital status or kids.
I don’t. My work schedule is flexible, I have a five-minute commute, and I can sleep and wake up pretty much whenever I want to.
yeah I don’t think the average person can get that just by not having kids though.
I’m on track to retire in my mid-30s due to not having the expenses that my co-workers with kids do, and I don’t have to do a damn thing before or after work I’m just sitting on a couch drinking a beer and watching anime when I get home. I’m 2 miles from work and don’t have to be there until 10 but that’s not necessarily the norm.
Damn, you must’ve been fortunate with job placement. Wtf. Half of my 20s was jobless, not for a lack of trying.
I got my good paying job at 24 and saved most of my money, but as a single person I spent $20k/yr total cost of living while living in a room in someone’s basement and a lot of that was just takeout and beer honestly.
I’m sorry but if you’ve been in the workforce for 10 years and are ready to retire soon you’re either doing some really bad math, are a prodigy making 7 figures since the age of 24, inherited money from someone else, or are planning to live off beer in someone’s basement for the next 50 years
I think 78k was my salary back then, the stock market has done really well the last decade. $1.5 million is the amount I plan to retire with.
8AM is late. 6 or 5 is typical.
LPT: Marry a “morning person”.
Well, you luckily do not have to, if you dont want to.
Thats like, your choice, man.
I’m a very late night person, and do work around the clock. Haven’t ever done 9-5 work. Having kids does not make that easy, but thats my choice, once again. Pushing 40 years I wouldnt be able to go through it again with small kids. My wife just had to get a few dogs though. Same things as with small kids…
As someone with 2 kids and wasn’t the biggest fans of kids all O can say is we kind of trained them to sleep in lol. With that said school is the worst part… im up by 6:45am during the week, but once they are gone i go back to bed for an hour or get some stuff done before my 9am job. Also weekends and summer they sleep till like 9am which is ok in my book!
I did that (breakfast, going to school) by myself since I was like 5
I’m not childfree, I have a kid, but he’s 22 and no longer lives with me.
But the thing is, I’m consistently woken earlier by my fucking cat than I ever was by my kid when he was little.
Jokes on you! I wake up at 5am already and 4am if I’m going fishing.
But that’s just me getting up, I don’t have kids or anyone else to get moving in the morning.
Maybe it’s jokes on me 🤷♀️
My wife and I wake up at ~6:30am to get our daughter on her bus. We are not morning people, in fact we are quite emphatically night people. Left to our own devices, we will sleep more like 1am-9am. We knew this when we had our kid, and we figured that our circadian rhythms would naturally adjust to the baby’s.
They did not. It’s been six years since I had what felt to me like a “normal” sleep schedule.
I love my daughter, she’s my reason for living, I wouldn’t trade her for anything, not by a long shot.
But nobody should fuck around with parenting, and nobody should have to be convinced to do it, let alone coerced. The very idea of someone doing this without 100% wanting to do it sounds like just about the worst kind of hell I can imagine, for both parent and offspring.
Bruh my cats are basically alarm clocks in the morning 😹
Heh, my cat does the same to my parents when they visit.
Not to me though. My cat knows I ain’t gonna get up and feed him until I’m awake. He will wait patiently and judge silently. Loud meowing only works on my parents.
Omg SAME. We taught ours to talk (using buttons) and she’s such an absolute unhinged menace in the mornings
12-15 years of helping them go to school, then 10 years of helping them avoid terrible life choices when they are most prone to making them and least likely to listen to you, then 5-10 years of worrying about their career and finances and then you can finally start everything again with your grandchildren. Yay!
I love how posts on this sub get absolutely ratioed.
I don’t see it. Pls explain?
Avoiding god’s toughest battles guys 😂
