It's a generational thing. I started working in a pretty deep recession in my industry. It's made me grateful for any job I've ever had as the sword of Damocles was over my head every morning. My brother and sister both started working during boom times. They've been frustrated by all sorts of things that are just facts of the workplace. In fact, my brother once said to me quite seriously, "Man, work really cuts into your day." At the time he was an associate at a law firm. Yeah, work can suck. Big deal. Deal with it or start your own business.
Entitlement! I deserve a six-figure job, secretary and an expense account. I went to college and got drunk every night dammit!
I think a big part of it is that menial tasks can be handled by computers, assistants, outsourced or put on hold with vague emails. So what ends up is a lot of free time all around and it gets fucking boring. I can finish all my work in under an hour usually, and the rest of the day I just have to look busy. oh look, i sent an email whoopee. now have to wait a day or so until I can take action!
See Maxie, most people don't get to post their political thoughts all day on a sports board while being paid in the upper middle class. Most people come home exhausted from their near-minimum wage jobs, brain-dead from the repetition of stressfully not thinking all day. Sure, you feel lucky, but try an ordinary job and you won't. (On this board, we are all writers with spare time to write, but we aren't typical.) By ordinary job, I mean not with the government, and not with a big (or even medium-sized) company. Certainly not in financial services. I mean where there's no health care, no pension, no benefits like vacation or holiday pay. Where they classify you as part-time permanently. Outside of the metropolis, that's what there is. And it's not at all traditional to feel lucky to have a job. Tracts on dehumanization (how jobs make people brain-dead) go back at least a century. Now in the Depression, sure they felt lucky to have a job, if it's the Depression-era ethic in which you want us to permanently live. Philosophers don't discuss this question: On the continuum between the extremes of happiness and unhappiness, where should the individual expect to be placed by default? In other words, how much happiness should be a right (with the rest of it a privilege). The same quetion in the converse is, how much hell should the system push onto the individual before it's time to change the system?
After high school, I worked a minimum wage job for 8 1/2 years. I absolutely hated that job and thought that is what I was going to do for the rest of my life. I now have a career that I love and am very grateful considering so many out there that are out of work.
I'd look for something I'd love doing, but all I really love doing is chillin' and travelling. How the fuck can I get paid for that?
I actually tried that a few years ago. Video travel company..interactive video tours of locations..... but it fizzled.
Any costume shop will sell you a mustache, and if you go on cruises with mostly foreigners, they may find you to have a sexy accent. barfo
I already have the linen pants, so that's a start. that would actually be pretty fun. one of those weird fucking people you meet traveling and wonder "where the fuck did this guy come from".
that shit would be too intense for me during game time. not being able to see blazers games live and in person or drink booze or pound the walls would be torture!
It is tougher then you think! Live TV is pretty stressful. If I push a wrong button, a lot of people see it. You know, I get so caught up working, i don't even know the score half the time.
