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I need my salary to pay the rent of my appartment and I sure would make a good use of a year off. This said I’m definitely not interested in becoming financially independent. I somehow associate security to death and chaos to creativity. I like the feeling of being on the edge, not by seeking danger but rather by avoiding excessive stability.
The current trend of seeking security by looking for a civil service job and desesperately getting a thirty years loan to own a house makes me uncomfortable. How would these people adapt to the loss of something they believe indestructible? What unacceptable things may they accept just because they are locked into paying for that loan? Is this security?
I recently quit a comfortable position of director to accept a new 15% less paid job, doing something I had little expertise, just to kick my ass and train my adaptability.
This way I’ve never been afraid of loosing my position and have always been able to say anything to anybody without any serious risk. Behavioral independence has no price.
Putting adaptability before security is something I’ll keep doing.
