Call it a millennial crisis if you want.
But in my 30's, I realized l don't actually want the life I worked so hard for. I don't care about titles. I don't care about climbing anyone else's ladder. I care about time. I care about slow mornings. I care about peace. I care about bare feet at the beach with nowhere to be. I still want to make money.. just not at the cost of my life.
A win for accountants and and tax practitioners and a (potential) loss for lawyers:
The SCA has agreed that ‘lay people’ (non-legal tax practitioners) must be allowed to represent taxpayers in the Tax Court.
I want to be rich. But not Lamborghini
or Rolex rich, I want to be rich enough to go to the gym at 3pm and nobody can tell me no. To tap the family in front of me at the supermarket and say, "It's on me," Rich enough that my future wife never has to worry about getting a job. Rich enough to show my children the world, not pictures of it. Rich enough to take my friends to dinner and say, "| got this", Rich enough that God uses me to help the people who are in need. That's my version of rich.
In South Africa, at about the same time, one Province was completing 80 KM of its High Speed network - just in time for the 2010 World Cup. The only one in the country.
The system is great, if you can afford it, but not a single extra kilometre has been added since even though plans to expand are announced annually.
Related; the Head of State who had lost a party conference resigned on 21 September 2008. His successor signed the Bill that killed the country’s elite corruption-busting entity.
A latter successor came into Office and, in his second term, the current Head of State joined his administration as his Deputy. Around 2014/15, the government began instituting austerity (ie; defunding the State).
The Deputy would go on to prevail in their party’s 2017 conference and takeover government in February 2018. Yesterday, he appeared to double down on what looks a lot like privatisation of (freight) rail and water services & infrastructure.
On the plus side, the National Airline is recovering, though, so there’s also that…