The other week, I caught up with the one (naturalized) (Mexican) engineer who used to date my one lawyer friend from Missouri, who I stay in touch with here and there, but who I hadn't seen in a few years.
We were catching up on career stuff, and he was surprised that I don't have much room for advancement in my current job, and since plausible paths forward take too much time or money and I'm happy just to do reading and writing stuff on my time off, that my new philosophy is to make enough to live and have a financial cushion, but otherwise work as little as possible.
"That's what we do in Mexico," he was like, and he shook his head. "The U.S. is becoming a third world country."
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