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Man Quits $80K Job to Work in Grocery Store Part Time - Minimalism - YouTube
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I decided to simplify my life for years
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you know I was convinced that I had to
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make more money more money and that
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money would bring me freedom and
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happiness I was just scared of making a
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change but as soon as I made that change
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I knew right away that it was the right
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thing to do because I I felt like this
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weight lifted off my shoulders I got a
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pretty cushy government job right after
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graduating from university so I had all
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this money I was single so I decided to
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buy myself a house bought a big house in
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the suburbs for a bedroom house and my
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new obsession was buying furniture and
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from there I sold my house and bought a
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condo kept the same job kept making more
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and more money every year for 11 years I
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stayed in that job and I had the golden
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handcuffs you know I had the pension the
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benefits I was making 80 thousand bucks
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a year I had all this you know freedom
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to go shopping if money was a non-issue
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so I could buy whatever I want I could
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get all these toys all these musical
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instruments saw these microfiber couches
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but deep down I wasn't happy I would
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come home from work and I was miserable
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and I dreaded going to work every day my
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job was super super unfulfilling it
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wasn't making me happy being in an
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office an hour today just sitting there
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at a desk staring at a computer screen
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you know you're sitting down you're not
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doing much but it's actually exhausting
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and I was trapped I felt trapped once
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you get into this you but you go on this
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path of buying things you get addicted
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and you feel like you know you're stuck
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and you have people around you telling
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you that you know you're you're set for
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life and it would be crazy to leave this
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job like why would you leave this job
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you're you know what maybe nuts you're
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set I flipped out I just flipped out one
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day and I realized yeah this is not
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making me happy and I made some changes
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and what did it for me is a silent
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retreat for ten days and just did a lot
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of soul-searching and I realized yeah
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this this can't go on I quit my job but
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the condo up is up for sale and I just
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walked away I was super scared but I
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knew I had to change my life if I was
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gonna you know be happy and looking back
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I have no regrets zero regrets
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whatsoever it was the best move ever
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made my entire life and I work three
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days a week in a grocery store I have a
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lot less money but I have a lot more
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time a lot more time to do the things
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that I love spend time with people I
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love do a lot of you know personal work
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and personal growth kind of stuff which
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is really important to me and that's
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what makes that's what makes me happy so
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I have less money but you know so that
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means you have to simplify your life so
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I got myself a super small apartment
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it's easy to take care of I bike to work
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I love biking it's the cheapest way to
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travel and you know because I cut all
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these expenses now I'm able to work only
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three days a week where I work now at
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the grocery store it's you might think
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it's you know boring or mind-numbing but
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actually I'm on my feet all day I'm
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running around dealing with customers
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and talking to people and actually leave
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work feeling invigorated and energized
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so once I downsized to a smaller space
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that's when you realize like oh my god I
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have a lot of stuff and to me having a
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lot of clutter in your physical space to
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me it makes
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like have clutter in my mind so it just
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stresses me out so when I sold my condo
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I sold a lot of stuff I gave stuff away
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I put stuff away in storage living in a
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small space in my bachelor apartment
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you're forced to live simply you're
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forced to be more organized and just to
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be clutter free of course this is not
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the solution for everyone doesn't mean
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that you know if you do if you do what I
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did that you're going to be happy that's
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not what I'm saying at all you know I
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still have problems I still have
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challenges that doesn't go away but if
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there's something that you know you can
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change in your life and that's gonna
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make you happy or you should do it if
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you know there are things you can't
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control you have to accept that but I
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think you have to have the courage to
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you know take charge and make that
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change if you can
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