Is your toilet making an ominous gurgling sound? Front door lock getting harder and harder to turn? Perhaps your doghouse lost a shingle or your light-switch no longer switches.
The normal (non-FIRE) busy professional will confidently tell themselves, “Self, you’re important and have a full-time job! It’s not worth your time to try and fix that. Plus, you’re a klutz and what if you make it worse?”
Not worth your time. That’s a funny phrase. You’ll see people do this math: 2,087 work hours in a year and if you make $90,000 a year, then your time is “worth” $43/hour. It’s a tempting construction to tell yourself that you’re too busy with valuable activities to bother fixing and fiddling.
But here’s where this theory falls apart: if you aren’t working on fixing something, will you really be using that time to make more money?
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