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Micro-retirement (lemmy.ml)

submitted 6 days ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/funny@sh.itjust.works

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[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

[off topic]

I am a fan of the Travis McGee novels by John D. MacDonald. Introduced to them in childhood and still worth a re-read.

Travis was a 'salvage consultant' who would rob loot back from criminals, and then retire for as long as the money lasted.

[–] exasperation@lemm.ee 2 points 5 days ago

What's funny is I just typed a comment trying to analyze what types of jobs would allow for this, and one category was the "discrete projects that have a defined beginning and end" type jobs, and it did cross my mind that movie-style heists tend to have this kind of arrangement.