okay wait they saved the most insane quote for last. here’s a zoomer talking about estate planning. I wonder how much money his dad has in his bank account. no reason
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ok but also how does a school teacher do this? A week or two ever month?! That’s…not a flexible job
jul 3, 2025, 1:15 pm • 4 0 • view
I remember being really genned up on estate planning when I was young oh wait
jul 4, 2025, 6:22 am • 2 0 • view
"...they're probably squander the money anyway." Is he telling on himself?
jul 3, 2025, 1:05 pm • 37 0 • view
That has to be a bit, right?
jul 3, 2025, 1:21 pm • 15 0 • view
I hope so. I hope it’s a bit this guy got over on a Fast Company writer because I shudder to think he is loose on the streets of my town like this when he is not micro vacationing
jul 3, 2025, 1:23 pm • 10 0 • view
Hope it is. And I'm taking a mini-micro-retirement of a four-day weekend. That includes a US holiday and a single day off on Monday.
jul 3, 2025, 1:28 pm • 5 0 • view
"All I"m gonna do is hand it off to my kids who will squander it" Well, no, for like 20+ years each, you're going to have to feed and house and educate them, not to mention taking them on vacation WITH you..... (I am very sure Ben does not yet have any children)
jul 3, 2025, 1:06 pm • 14 0 • view
He’s a public school teacher who takes a week-long vacation each month? Naw.
jul 3, 2025, 1:48 pm • 8 0 • view
As a bay area/I80 teacher, I gotta say that kinda "financial freedom" seems super common along the inexperienced 25 year old PhD students who aspire to be consultants paid by the district. (no, don't ask why they started accepting Ed PhD students without prior teaching experience)
jul 3, 2025, 3:01 pm • 3 0 • view
Broooooooooo
jul 3, 2025, 1:08 pm • 1 0 • view
So really this is just weird congenitally rich people shit, right?
jul 3, 2025, 5:44 pm • 3 0 • view
I feel like they should have fact checked this last guy. logistically how is a public school teacher traveling 1-2 weeks a month while school is in session?
jul 3, 2025, 1:06 pm • 1,690 13 • view
Chat-GPT ass article. No fucking way that guy exists.
jul 3, 2025, 1:19 pm • 9 0 • view
unfortunately I live a stone’s throw away from the Berkeley campus and there are probably a dozen of him over there
jul 3, 2025, 1:20 pm • 15 0 • view
I believe it! My baby sister is a Berkeley High grad, my mom taught at a cute local preschool for like 8 years. There is no shortage of out of touch trust fund dipshits around, but this anecdote truly makes no sense, top to bottom. Even as a lie it doesn’t hold up.
jul 3, 2025, 1:24 pm • 9 0 • view
def some job where you can fake it or go remote but you got 30 kids in a class room someone is going to notice
jul 3, 2025, 2:16 pm • 6 0 • view
Public school teachers generally do not combine the words “when you consider how estate planning works” in that sequential order
jul 3, 2025, 2:44 pm • 17 0 • view
Seriously! Joshua Charles and Benjamin Fields are also both listed as employees at Frontier Dominion as well. www.frontierdominion.com/team
jul 3, 2025, 4:59 pm • 2 0 • view
He's not. The PhD program he claims to be in is full time (I've had people from that program do field work in my room). He might be able to sub or be part time, but let's be honest, he doesn't need money.
jul 3, 2025, 3:03 pm • 14 0 • view
Lol. I just found this: I Quiet Vacation From My Jobs As a Teacher; Employers Have No Idea www.businessinsider.com/quiet-vacati... Same dude
jul 3, 2025, 2:13 pm • 27 0 • view
> I had the opportunity to speak at a conference in Dubai, and the Dubai government funded my transportation and hotel. > I used to work at Subway during the summer in high school for 60 hours a week. Neither of these things sound true. He never mentions any names. What a weird article
jul 3, 2025, 2:18 pm • 33 0 • view
It really seems like he may spend his time convincing gullible journalists about his supposed lifestyle
jul 3, 2025, 2:20 pm • 47 0 • view
he said “In the future, whenever someone compares US economic figures to European figures, I will point out that Americans consider a ski vacation a micro-retirement” 💀💀💀
jul 3, 2025, 1:17 pm • 1,001 41 • view
hän sai meidät perseelle
jul 3, 2025, 1:31 pm • 2 0 • view
Apologies to Teemu for what is surely a wrong translation
jul 3, 2025, 1:33 pm • 0 0 • view
Close enough. A more Finnish way would be to say "He showed us the jay's eggs" (don’t ask).
jul 3, 2025, 2:28 pm • 8 0 • view
I love this, thank you!!!!
jul 3, 2025, 2:32 pm • 0 0 • view
OH MY FUCKING GOD
jul 3, 2025, 8:32 pm • 1 0 • view
apologies in advance but [kendrick lamar voice] EIGHT MINORRR
jul 3, 2025, 1:29 pm • 934 7 • view
Everyone has worked with this guy and everyone cheered internally when he left. It is not possible to have EIGHT minors unless you went to school for a minimum of eight years.
jul 3, 2025, 1:42 pm • 25 0 • view
my fellow Americans, we are getting absolutely cooked in the quote posts. I translated one from Portuguese that said “1-2 weeks of vacation a year? and they still consider themselves a first-world country?”
jul 3, 2025, 1:40 pm • 1,822 129 • view
They're right though. Asking for vacation time I earned is a humiliation ritual. I feel like Oliver Twist
jul 3, 2025, 3:58 pm • 24 0 • view
and rightfully so
jul 3, 2025, 4:06 pm • 4 0 • view
😂.. I was waiting for comments from Europe on this (and with all the traveling he does during his micro-retirements, you'd think Joshua Charles would know this about Europe)..
jul 7, 2025, 12:32 am • 0 0 • view
I'm a lot older than the Gen-Zs that they're talking about. I took my current job a few years ago and negotiated everything else, but they stood firm that the amount of vacation was the same for everyone, so I'm stuck with that and the only way to get more would be to switch jobs...
jul 3, 2025, 2:30 pm • 6 0 • view
Two years at a company is just when people start hitting their stride and I'd hope management types would see that they could stem the bleeding by giving people an adequate amount of vacation and maybe even a sabbatical every X years, but I doubt it.
jul 3, 2025, 2:34 pm • 18 0 • view
gonna mute this thread because it’s taking off but I will leave you with: of course not all zoomers, most of you are lovely and I will be happy to fight alongside you in the water wars. it is a time-honored tradition to have a journalist write a weird trend piece about your generation ❤️
jul 3, 2025, 2:00 pm • 693 12 • view
I love how Boomers just can't help patting themselves on the back for being so amazing. "A hard act to follow?" Yeah, because you gobbled up all the resources and pulled up every possible ladder behind you.
jul 3, 2025, 5:46 pm • 10 0 • view
I love that our "trend" was moving back home after college because there were no jobs available and no way for us to afford rent/pay a mortgage.
jul 3, 2025, 6:31 pm • 5 0 • view
i think Linkedin missed a trick in not hiring you
jul 3, 2025, 2:55 pm • 0 0 • view
now that we’ve officially passed the torch can we admit avocado toast is just fine? even the best avocado toast is mid. xoxo a millennial
jul 3, 2025, 2:03 pm • 538 7 • view
Maybe Gen Z will editorially be allowed to grow up while millennials will forever be perceived as the youth as we enter middle age.
jul 3, 2025, 2:05 pm • 148 5 • view
Like that’s nice of the media I guess but I also asked my brother in law for knee pain stretches earlier this morning so…time doesn’t lie
jul 3, 2025, 2:21 pm • 21 0 • view
I don't think it's gonna happen. bsky.app/profile/atru...
jul 3, 2025, 2:32 pm • 4 0 • view
Love this place man
jul 3, 2025, 3:56 pm • 1 0 • view
This skeet in the thread getting the fewest likes feels just
jul 3, 2025, 5:48 pm • 2 0 • view
jul 3, 2025, 11:58 pm • 1 0 • view
Hahaha
jul 4, 2025, 12:04 am • 0 0 • view
ok wait shoutout to @mmasnick.bsky.social for the investigative work, here's what we know about Benjamin Fields: 1. he teaches high school online and sometimes does so remotely via VPN 2. the guy who wrote the fast company piece also wrote this piece 3. I don't think it's much of a secret now!!
jul 3, 2025, 4:03 pm • 139 7 • view
There's some sort of scam going on here, but I don't even want to know what their game is kconstable.com/about/
jul 3, 2025, 4:06 pm • 32 1 • view
kconstable.com/4-online-ent...
jul 3, 2025, 4:10 pm • 12 0 • view
radiologists may have been doing it longer. you can read an xray wherever there's good bandwith, often at resorts, where i've met a few from the US
jul 3, 2025, 6:21 pm • 7 0 • view
Looks like he does the high school in person except for saving up all his days for a big trip, so that's slightly less insane. All the university stuff is what he's "secretly" traveling constantly for in the summer it seems? Still doesn't 100% make sense
jul 3, 2025, 4:54 pm • 5 0 • view
"Kimanzi Constable is an author of four books and a freelance writer... He's a global traveler and digital nomad that has been to 83 countries and counting. Keep up with his global travels with his wife on their YouTube channel."
jul 3, 2025, 4:20 pm • 3 0 • view
I would rather get sepsis
jul 3, 2025, 4:33 pm • 6 0 • view
If you travel to 83 countries, you just might!
jul 3, 2025, 5:06 pm • 3 0 • view
I will go so far as to say it sucks. Toast is fine, avocado is fine, mixing them doesn’t make either better. Gimme some tasty jam and keep the avocado for lunch where it belongs
jul 3, 2025, 4:47 pm • 6 0 • view
Weird business-speak psychos happen in every generation
jul 3, 2025, 3:00 pm • 7 0 • view
"Money is just a tool" Yup, definitely daddies money.
jul 3, 2025, 1:10 pm • 26 0 • view
Substitute
jul 3, 2025, 1:12 pm • 30 0 • view
Yeah, I’m thinking a sub…
jul 3, 2025, 1:14 pm • 7 0 • view
ok actually rich failson moonlighting as a sub absolutely makes sense here
jul 3, 2025, 1:13 pm • 60 0 • view
Oh sorry. Lol.
jul 3, 2025, 1:08 pm • 3 0 • view
no it’s okay it’s such an obvious question I fear for the reporter who didn’t ask it
jul 3, 2025, 1:09 pm • 11 0 • view
"What am I gonna do? Pass my wealth onto my kids? Kids? They are out of frame. You dont know them."
jul 3, 2025, 2:41 pm • 5 0 • view
What kind of public school teacher can take off one week a month?
jul 3, 2025, 1:07 pm • 61 1 • view
A substitute teacher. There's *plenty* of work whenever you want it 50-50 he's real and has a trust fund. The part about estate planning seems like a giveaway
jul 3, 2025, 1:45 pm • 27 0 • view
did about two minutes of digging and he’s definitely real, he even has the perfume side hustle in his LinkedIn bio lol. but yeah he’s probably a sub
jul 3, 2025, 1:49 pm • 6 0 • view
I dunno, that perfume side hustle...smells. I'll see myself out.
jul 3, 2025, 2:03 pm • 6 0 • view
Public school teacher who spends a third of his time on vacation in addition to being a business owner and grad student…
jul 4, 2025, 8:26 am • 1 0 • view
I have decided Benjamin Fields trolled the author of this article and I applaud him
jul 3, 2025, 1:08 pm • 66 0 • view
His linked in says he graduated college with a double major and eight minors.
jul 3, 2025, 1:11 pm • 79 1 • view
jul 3, 2025, 1:58 pm • 27 0 • view
omg
jul 3, 2025, 2:27 pm • 3 0 • view
So he just took every class offered at his school to avoid having to graduate.
jul 3, 2025, 1:42 pm • 51 0 • view
Could be a substitute teacher who is overstating their role, or a dude who is not getting their contract renewed come June.
jul 3, 2025, 2:43 pm • 3 0 • view
Someone posted another article he actually penned, and he's a PhD student. He's supposed to teach in person as part of that program, but he's been teaching virtually and since no one is checking up on him, that's how he's managing so much travel.
jul 3, 2025, 5:53 pm • 1 0 • view
Generally speaking in public ed you will put up with someone like this for one school year, because filling in a new full time teacher in the middle of a school year is that much of a hassle.
jul 3, 2025, 2:45 pm • 4 0 • view