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Quitting the Rat Race - Seán Barry

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I'm leaving a comfortable job in a big city because there's more to life than whatever this is.

Quitting the Rat Race - Seán Barry All Articles Quitting the Rat Race Some readers may be familiar with the cartoon “Happiness” by Steve Cutts. If you’re not, it’s embedded below. Please take four minutes to give it a watch if you haven’t already: Around the 30 second mark is a scene where the protaganist rat is waiting for a train to arrive at a packed platform. I recently had a sobering realisation while standing waiting at the platform for the Waterloo & City Line : this had become my life. I grew up in one of the least densely populated parts of the United Kingdom. My childhood was a

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