I have an incomplete understand of the term "Rat Race". I always thought it means in the process of working to earn money. And that the only way out is to be financially independent.
Encountered 2 of my colleagues using this term recently, and so, being my usual self, I checked it out in my favourite Oxford dictionary :
rat race
• noun informal a way of life in which people are caught up in a fiercely competitive struggle for wealth or power.
As long as you are contended with your job and don't aim for too much, you can still be working at a day job, earning a decent day's pay, not be financially independent, but still free from the rat race.
Damn, with this new definition, I am still in a rat race, though not for the power.
Hmm.. Ok.. Everyday I find my level of knowledge getting worse.. Time for me not to be so opinionated and verify my facts. Ha Ha
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