I do my job as I am financially trapped and no other job would pay me what I earn for what I do.
I have just over 5 years left. The job pays for my biking trips my kids have all left home and when i finish I will be debt free have money in the bank a pension no ties and a wife that rides and wants to explore like me.
I will stick at the grind because of the benefits do I enjoy it no not any longer would I walk away yes if I could.
Thats why Im on this forum to gain experence insparation knowledge and know how so when I am free I will have the funds time and money to travel and explore.
Just got to do the 5 years first.

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I've been enjoying myself at HU meets for years, but this is my first post on the HUBB - I think. No. It says, it is my fourth (must have been years ago). So, who am I to disagree?

I must have been asleep when they explained about the work ethic. (Very likely!) I've tried to penetrate the mysteries of work for years but have failed. That doesn't mean I like hanging around doing nothing; far from it. I'm a fidget. It's just that I don't like Work.

I have a special aversion to my current work contract which says I have to sit behind a PC most days writing and editing pointless documents that no-one will read. Most of them won't even get published. Worse, I am surrounded by managers who think all this is 'meaningful' - or so they pretend. I dream that one day someone will tell me that my work had helped to save a life or has made an old person happy, but no-one ever does, and if they did, they would be lying.

A couple of times a week I'm given a reprieve and get to facilitate meetings or give presentations. This is better. It gets my performance needs met. As I'm an ace bullshitter, there is some fun to be had here, especially when things go wrong and I have to make stuff up.

Since my wife died (some years ago now) riding a bike is the only thing that convinces me that I inhabit a material, sensual world. Without a bike, I'm lost. I fret and bite my nails. I walk up and down. I spend precious hours logged onto facebook. I think they call this a dependency.

To answer the topic question: I do the job, endure the tedium, and feel useless for six out of eight hours every day to feed my dependency. I get the bikes, the books, the food and the bills. I get to go on short trips and travel up to the UK HU meet.

I had a revelation yesterday. It's time to move on!


P.S. Canazei1200. Yes. Exactly. I have four years left in the galleys. I'm chalking up the hull day by day.

Just summed up a lot of what I think about myself and work, thanks
Attending the HU last week was a great reminder that dreams can come true

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Striving to live the ordinary life in a non ordinary way

changed my life to new carrier , working and living in thailand now, doing what i like to most scuba instructor, yet im still to collect some moey buy some thumper with knobbies and the beggining of the rest of my life can start

Love my job, the benefis and compensation are great, but there's that one person in the group that makes most days a living hell!

Owned my own business and a paid for house in the US with the truck, suv, and bike...it was all right. Sold them all and moved to Kyrgyzstan. Love it! Starting a transportation/tourism company. Sure it's a lot of work...but hey, I live in Kyrgyzstan and my job just required me to help a nomadic family build their summer mountain yurt camp at 9000 ft (2750 meters) in the Tian Shan mountains...I'm not sure it really even qualifies as work

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9000 miles 'round the US riding two up on a ratted out 1985 Shadow 500 and now exploring Central Asia on a 1994 Honda Dominator...ride what you own where you are!