Why do we have to forget about downshifting

On the Internet a lot written about downshifting and its growing popularity among the inhabitants of developed countries, including Russia. However, if you look, you can come to an unexpected conclusion: we already daunshiftery.

The idea of ​​giving up zhlobskie competition and impressed the author of this material. But it has become a cult cargo: thousands of young men and women gave up on building a career, not build it. Photos taken with hammocks under the Thai palm trees - a simple change of scenery. Making websites, draw icons or to promote their own mobile application to us northerners, much nicer to the sound of the warm sea. But the level and quality of our lives by changing places do not change.

Collect mental focus group of classmates, friends and fellow students.

My focus group

A classmate and budding school clever learned the history department, incidentally interested in Romance languages ​​and English. It operates public bus driver. Not in France or the UK, where his language skills would be useful, and in the Novgorod region in the suburban areas. Career growth driver of the bus? No, have not heard.

Another classmate. He is able to creep into the confidence and communicate with people of different social status. Secondary special education, profession - heating engineer. Demanded the industry in which you can make a career, if you want to. Not worked a single day in the specialty. Worked in an insurance company manager, he showed good results, liked his superiors. I went to the factory for the production of roofing materials. Zero prospects, but also worry about tomorrow is also zero.

Classmate and best friend. Environmental engineer at a major construction company. The location is good, pay a fine, is not complaining. But bored. There is a business streak and ideas, not enough motivating kick from life. I suspect that this situation is familiar to many readers.

for two years with fellow faculty under. She works as a teacher of geography in the city, where 14.5 thousand lives. A lot of you have seen teachers careerists? In the words of Prime Minister Medvedev, teach - a vocation.

Another friend is going to defend the master's thesis, and while working in the shop desktop Games senior shop assistant, talking about updates to the game industry and ready to go beginners. In science, pay less.

The list could go on, but to illustrate the main idea is enough.

About Downshifting

Downshifting - switching to a lower gear. In a broad sense, this is life in the rejection of career and luxury.

From this point of view, all of my focus group - daunshiftery, although I'm not sure that they know something about it.

The specificity of the Russian way of life, climate and attitudes has created the illusion that daunshiftery - necessarily who went to the tropics, and living in a bungalow near the sea and people with a free schedule work. But nobody calls daunshifterom programmers, designers, writers, farmers, drivers and vendors from the local community. We go back to the first point: it's just a change of scenery. Most working away from a fixed place of registration do not differ much from their colleagues sitting in their own homes, or even coworking offices. The same money, the same amount of work, the same profession.

These daunshiftery - people consciously and, more importantly, to significantly reduce the level and standard of living. Chose the bus instead of plane and the title of the farmer, instead of boards of directors. Those who prefer a quiet life in the outback of the Roman Empire.

If you had seen what I've grown cabbage, then stopped to ask me about it.

Diocletian, the Roman emperor, in response to a request by the approximate return to the throne

In my focus group there is no such person. If you call daunshifterom middle management, to abandon further attempts career and went to live in a cheap third-world country, then yes, daunshiftery - most of us. People for whom work - means of livelihood, or at best, something for everyone, and not a field for competition, who has more home and car cooler.

Let's just agree on one thing: not to call downshifting, or some other special terms of normal everyday life.