One of Lifes things: Work
2NOT CRAP! I thoroughly enjoy my job. The things that bug me about it are outweighed by the good things.
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One of Lifes things: Work
3Shit, if I could find a fucking job I'd love it.
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One of Lifes things: Work
4It all depends. There have been times when I have loved my work and it has been my job/how I pay rent.
Other times (like now), I have not liked my job at all (though I have other work I do that is not my job which I like very much).
Today is my last day at my job.
Want me to save you some cake?
Other times (like now), I have not liked my job at all (though I have other work I do that is not my job which I like very much).
Today is my last day at my job.
Want me to save you some cake?
One of Lifes things: Work
5For me it's..........Ok.
Sporadically interesting, often tedious though it's rarely a trial. I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for the money but as ways of earning a living go I feel reasonably lucky. That said there are probably better things I could be doing with my time on the planet. I think most jobs stand or fall on the people you work with and mostly (ignoring the upper echelon zombies and sales drones) the people here are good guys - I can talk about music, enjoy their company for a drink now and again (as long as they don't talk shop) even see the odd band. They're reasonably soft about timekeeping and deadlines and I don't have to wear a tie. That said I find it hard to be truly enthusiastic about it (I like the abstract bits of software development but couldn't give a hoot about what it actually does) and tend to think of it as 'it could be much worse'.
Sporadically interesting, often tedious though it's rarely a trial. I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for the money but as ways of earning a living go I feel reasonably lucky. That said there are probably better things I could be doing with my time on the planet. I think most jobs stand or fall on the people you work with and mostly (ignoring the upper echelon zombies and sales drones) the people here are good guys - I can talk about music, enjoy their company for a drink now and again (as long as they don't talk shop) even see the odd band. They're reasonably soft about timekeeping and deadlines and I don't have to wear a tie. That said I find it hard to be truly enthusiastic about it (I like the abstract bits of software development but couldn't give a hoot about what it actually does) and tend to think of it as 'it could be much worse'.
One of Lifes things: Work
6I used to know a guy who used to say:
"Work is a total shit system."
I like this very much.
"Work is a total shit system."
I like this very much.
One of Lifes things: Work
7i wish i could earn the same living as a musician that i do as a computer programmer. "work" is a little vague.
i absolutely love working on music, playing and recording it, experimenting with and fixing up amps, etc. love it. it is a major source of happiness in my life. however, it costs me a lot of money.
i am pretty burnt out on my career work, which takes place entirely at home in front of the same computer i use to fuck around on ebay and here and email my friends. it's too much. if i was actually going to an office and working alongside other people, i think i'd be a hell of a lot happier with it, as i was in the past. as it is now, my work is a major source of stress and unhappiness for me.
"work", the concept of it, no way is it crap. it's important. working hard at a job you enjoy is a formula for a great and happy life. working hard at a job you're meh about is a way to fund your life, and working hard in general builds character and imbues a sense of accomplishment. not working hard at anything is a great formula for despondency.
i absolutely love working on music, playing and recording it, experimenting with and fixing up amps, etc. love it. it is a major source of happiness in my life. however, it costs me a lot of money.
i am pretty burnt out on my career work, which takes place entirely at home in front of the same computer i use to fuck around on ebay and here and email my friends. it's too much. if i was actually going to an office and working alongside other people, i think i'd be a hell of a lot happier with it, as i was in the past. as it is now, my work is a major source of stress and unhappiness for me.
"work", the concept of it, no way is it crap. it's important. working hard at a job you enjoy is a formula for a great and happy life. working hard at a job you're meh about is a way to fund your life, and working hard in general builds character and imbues a sense of accomplishment. not working hard at anything is a great formula for despondency.
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One of Lifes things: Work
8I like work. I have not always liked my jobs, but I do like to work hard. It is often (more often than not, really) very satisfying. I like working for myself except I do find that work never ends and I need to make a conscience effort to tell myself to stop and call it a day/night. It is actually bad for my health and marital standing if I do not.
One of Lifes things: Work
9I always like to be productive and working on something (except for when I'm relaxin). I go nuts if I don't have something to get done.
But I'm often not wild about my job. It's a good job and I beleive in it, but I feel like my job get's the best part of my day.
If I didn't have to work to earn money I'd get a shitload accomplished.
But I'm often not wild about my job. It's a good job and I beleive in it, but I feel like my job get's the best part of my day.
If I didn't have to work to earn money I'd get a shitload accomplished.
One of Lifes things: Work
10If work means handing my mind and body over to someone else for an extended period, under conditions I don't control, in order to earn money, then it sucks. I don't like it one bit. It's tedious and de-humanizing.
But if by work one just means doing some kind of productive activity, presumably with some measure of discipline and passion, it's probably the greatest thing there is. Not that I can't be one slothful motherfucker, but at my best -- when I'm most excited about my life -- I'm working at things.
Thing is, as many of us know or have known, sometimes just clawing one's way across the chasm of a single synaptic cleft, as if walking through ether, is the most tiring, difficult goddamn work a human being is capable of.
. . . I pulled up carpet in a downton office building all day today, and it was okay. It was totally fine actually, because I chose to do it for the day and I don't have to do it 5 days a week, for months on end. Just about any kind of work is okay provided you can stop doing it whenever you like. Though work that is concerned in any way with the removal of human fecies from places it shouldn't be may be one exception to this rule. I suspect there are others. Serving people eviction notices would suck. I'm glad I've never had to do that even once. Working in an industrial poultry farm, not so much. Okay, nevermind.
But if by work one just means doing some kind of productive activity, presumably with some measure of discipline and passion, it's probably the greatest thing there is. Not that I can't be one slothful motherfucker, but at my best -- when I'm most excited about my life -- I'm working at things.
Thing is, as many of us know or have known, sometimes just clawing one's way across the chasm of a single synaptic cleft, as if walking through ether, is the most tiring, difficult goddamn work a human being is capable of.
. . . I pulled up carpet in a downton office building all day today, and it was okay. It was totally fine actually, because I chose to do it for the day and I don't have to do it 5 days a week, for months on end. Just about any kind of work is okay provided you can stop doing it whenever you like. Though work that is concerned in any way with the removal of human fecies from places it shouldn't be may be one exception to this rule. I suspect there are others. Serving people eviction notices would suck. I'm glad I've never had to do that even once. Working in an industrial poultry farm, not so much. Okay, nevermind.