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caughtinside

Social climber
Oakland, CA
Sep 30, 2014 - 09:48pm PT
Thinking of it in a binary way is a sure way to lose
Sierra Ledge Rat

Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
Oct 1, 2014 - 04:18am PT
Location when you're young, because you gotta get sh#t done while you can. The rage of youth, big walls, extreme skiing, base jumping....

Job when you're older, because you wanna retire eventually and don't wanna be working at Walmart when you're 75 years old.....
Charlie D.

Trad climber
Western Slope, Tahoe Sierra
Oct 1, 2014 - 04:58am PT
When I got out of college I was flat broke and in debt. I needed a job and a good one. I moved from Oregon to San Diego, the only place on the west coast in 1974 that had much work in my field. The first two years there was great the second two I couldn't wait to leave but what it did accomplish was getting marketable training. I moved to where I really wanted to live with skills and experience that helped me set up a business and secure a future for myself and my family.

I admire the kids these days. My oldest has always sought great places to live first and simply figured out a way to make a living second. He has a professional degree and is living in Bozeman MT with his family and has managed to figure a gig that is building a future.

Bottom line follow your heart, when it speaks listen. I'm sorry for so many of my contemporaries who have spent their entire lives living somewhere that doesn't fit who they are and talk about moving once they retire. Life isn't a dress rehearsal don't postpone your happiness.
skitch

climber
East of Heaven
Topic Author's Reply - Oct 1, 2014 - 08:23am PT
I have to ask questions, I don't know everything yet like you guys.
NutAgain!

Trad climber
South Pasadena, CA
Oct 1, 2014 - 10:55am PT
The decision depends a lot on the individual- if you have a rewarding career that holds a part of your identity and contributes to your meaning in life, or if it pays you well enough to enable other things in life that contribute to your identity and sense of meaning, then you make concessions to keep that.

The things that give my life meaning require me to hold a steady job and move based on where my wifey can have the same for herself. Hanging out here helps keep the climbing spirit alive in me, even if the body doesn't partake as much for the next few years.
Gunkie

Trad climber
East Coast US
Oct 1, 2014 - 12:38pm PT
When I was footloose and fancy free... Location
Now... Job

(because even if I was in the perfect location, kids & house responsibilities would severely limit my fun time anyway)
Cragar

climber
MSLA - MT
Oct 1, 2014 - 12:53pm PT
Location.

I have been lucky in both place and work in life. I did follow a woman around for 2-3 years and if anything I learned a lot about what I don't like in a place. Place can shape folks and being somewhat social, there were some speedy-rooster zones from that experience that I am glad to have experienced and even more glad to be away from. For me, I don't like the idea of needing to travel to fix on gettin' my fix on. I like the lonely mountains. I do not care if they are a 'mecca', popular or the gnar. I just like natural(for the most part) topographically interrupted space with nice ele gains and some shear faces here and there for the pepper effects. Money means little to me as well(my micro house and old trusty car help hella with that) so that helps with what kind of job I would need.
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