A new generation of "time millionaires"

Not rushing to work, many young people choose to live slowly and love themselves when the
epidemic breaks out.

Since coming to work until now, at any company, software engineer Gavin is "famous" for
hiding from work. When the pandemic began, Gavin was delighted to be working from home.
Many people think that he is a failure, has no will to advance, works to earn money to live day
by day.

But Gavin thinks otherwise. "Life is short. I want to enjoy the time I have, "he laughed.
According to many, Gavin is a "time millionaire".

The term "time millionaire" was first introduced by writer Nilanjana Roy in 2016 in a column in
the Financial Times. The wealth of "time millionaires" is not measured in money or real estate,
but in the number of seconds, minutes and hours they get from work to rest and entertain.

"Money can bring comfort and security in life. But I wish we should be taught how to value
time. "How we spend each hour and each day is how we spend our lives," Roy said.

And the pandemic has created a new group of "time millionaires".

Charlie Warzel, a former New York Times reporter and author of “Absent: The Big Problem and
the Greater Promise of Working from Home”, commented: "People are quitting their jobs and
don't want to come back to the company, even if their unemployment benefits are about to run
out."

The pandemic has caused many people to calmly re-evaluate their attitude to work. They often
ask themselves whether they can accept a low-income life but feel comfortable or not.

Binstead was also a workaholic. Before the epidemic, he ran a pub in Sheffield. Work starts from
10 a.m. to 1 a.m. the next day, five days a week. Taking advantage of the days off, he deals with
paperwork-related work.

Bursting with work, Binstead didn't realize he was exhausted. Then making money is the only
goal. Even for her mother's 50th birthday, Binstead was not invited because she knew her son
would be busy.

The pandemic hit the 29-year-old man with relief. "I'm no longer obsessed with money. Time at
home is much more valuable to me, "he said.