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Feb 3, 2019 19:16:18 GMT
Post by Deleted on Feb 3, 2019 19:16:18 GMT
i resent it, i really do. i'm at the age where i never want to work again. some people love it though, despite what they say. it gives them a purpose in life. i'd happily sit on my arse and while away the hours for the rest of my life, i really would.
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Feb 3, 2019 19:19:28 GMT
Post by Deleted on Feb 3, 2019 19:19:28 GMT
Me too. In fact I've been doing just that. Unfortunately I'll have to re-enter the real world soon.
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Feb 3, 2019 19:19:45 GMT
Post by Half Machine Lipschitz on Feb 3, 2019 19:19:45 GMT
It's bullshit. I'm lucky that I have a half-decent job, but if I didn't need the money I'd be out of there in a shot. Fuck work.
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Feb 3, 2019 19:26:45 GMT
Post by Deleted on Feb 3, 2019 19:26:45 GMT
i've got my working week down to 4 days and 18 hours. sounds ideal, but it's still too much.
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Feb 3, 2019 19:28:49 GMT
Post by Reactionary Rage on Feb 3, 2019 19:28:49 GMT
It is bullshit but people are idyll too. I'd like to think that without work I'd have all this time to indulge my passions but part of me suspects I'd just use the time to get pissed/stoned and eat.
I think work is necessary in that respect to help you focus the other areas of your life around your free time. Rough with the smooth or summat. Sacrifice. That's important too.
But, yeah, I certainly feel "fuck work" a lot of the time too.
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Feb 3, 2019 19:40:23 GMT
Post by Deleted on Feb 3, 2019 19:40:23 GMT
It is bullshit but people are idyll too. I'd like to think that without work I'd have all this time to indulge my passions but part of me suspects I'd just use the time to get pissed/stoned and eat. I think work is necessary in that respect to help you focus the other areas of your life around your free time. Rough with the smooth or summat. Sacrifice. That's important too. i don't think you're alone in feeling like that. i'm too disciplined to let myself go to pot. things that cost money, don't really interest me any more. i like to travel and look forward to doing so when i get time off but ultimately i'm just as happy exploring my environs as i would be going long haul to countries i've not been to before.
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Feb 3, 2019 19:44:29 GMT
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Post by Crunchy Col on Feb 3, 2019 19:44:29 GMT
I enjoy my job because I am a TEACHAH
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Feb 3, 2019 19:54:45 GMT
Post by Reactionary Rage on Feb 3, 2019 19:54:45 GMT
It is bullshit but people are idyll too. I'd like to think that without work I'd have all this time to indulge my passions but part of me suspects I'd just use the time to get pissed/stoned and eat. I think work is necessary in that respect to help you focus the other areas of your life around your free time. Rough with the smooth or summat. Sacrifice. That's important too. i don't think you're alone in feeling like that. i'm too disciplined to let myself go to pot. things that cost money, don't really interest me any more. i like to travel and look forward to doing so when i get time off but ultimately i'm just as happy exploring my environs as i would be going long haul to countries i've not been to before. See, I have bad habits. I don't regularly smoke any more but when I do I basically wallow in my own crapulence for days. I have that tendency but it might drift away at some point. Part of me will always hate work because it just seems like a waste of my time and my, ahem, talents but I'm certainly more open towards the importance of work in general in our day to day lives. Maybe I'll get the discipline you speak of someday but in the meantime part of genuinely thinks work is a barrier against my worst self indulgent habits. I'd certainly like to work less though and long for the day when I can switch down to, say, 4 days a week or less. Oh what bliss that'll be! But then if I'd never had to endure the 37 hour, 5 day a week thing then there would be no joy in that.
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Feb 3, 2019 20:03:20 GMT
Post by Reactionary Rage on Feb 3, 2019 20:03:20 GMT
I enjoy my job because I am a TEACHAH The children are our future. God bless you, John
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Feb 3, 2019 20:49:17 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Feb 3, 2019 20:49:17 GMT
I was unemployed for about 3 years. Prayed for a job, and I'm happy to be working. I guess I'm one of those "sense of purpose" folk.
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Feb 3, 2019 21:24:43 GMT
Post by jeffk on Feb 3, 2019 21:24:43 GMT
I had some health issues recently which rendered me unemployable and after a long wait, I'm now collecting disability. I never thought I'd say this but I don't miss work and would never go back.
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Feb 4, 2019 1:18:05 GMT
Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2019 1:18:05 GMT
We were going by my work and my son asked if we could go in and see where I worked. I told him, A) I work in a cubicle and it's not that exciting and B) Why would I want to visit a place where I don't really want to be all week?
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Feb 4, 2019 9:39:35 GMT
Post by DarknessFish on Feb 4, 2019 9:39:35 GMT
I'd love to have a job where I felt the end result actually meant something. I'm paid reasonably well (I'd probably starve in London on these wages, but in Wigan I'm an aristocrat), and I guess my job can be an interesting logical challenge sometimes. But at the end of the day, I feel that if I didn't turn up, in the grand scheme of things, no-one would really notice. And if no-one would notice, I'd rather be reading a book, listening to some music, walking through the countryside, drinking myself to death, that kind of thing.
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Feb 4, 2019 12:05:02 GMT
Post by lokie on Feb 4, 2019 12:05:02 GMT
I've been retired since '97. It's great.
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Feb 4, 2019 14:27:48 GMT
Post by Inspector Norse on Feb 4, 2019 14:27:48 GMT
I quite like my job as I travel around the city a lot, work in different areas, have different and varied responsibilities, am trusted to make my own decisions by those both above and below me in the hierarchy (although this being Sweden, it's not so much a hierarchy as a circle except one or two people have bigger chairs and a bit more legroom), work with culture, etc.
One negative is that I find that as I'm left to my own devices a lot, I tend to widdle around on sites like this a bit too much, mainly when I'm doing something boring in Excel. Part of this is because I am employed by The City and that means that 50% of my workday is spent waiting for other, slower and less efficient people in other buildings a long way away to do things I've asked them to do or produce information I've asked them to provide.
One good thing now is that I don't take my work home with me; I firmly believe one should work to live and not vice-versa (unless one is an artiste maybe) so I prefer civil service middle management, or whatever it is I do, to working in a school, because that was both directly personal with students and also involved, for middle management, a lot of stress with timetabling and other issues which I found myself worrying about in the evenings too. Now, I can put my work phone and computer away I finish and not need to check them again until I arrive the following day (apart from that one time when my boss called me an hour after I'd finished for the Christmas holiday and basically invited me to do Supermarket Sweep with our remaining budget. That was fun).
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