Would you prefer not having to work?

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  • rvp
    rvp Posts: 779
    libragirl wrote:
    yep..life is unfair....I envy people who like what they do for a living. I for one can't stand it..it's just a paycheck for me.

    Wow..that is a long workday..what do you do?
    institutional communications and media relations...
    today I hate it more than other days as you can imagine ;)
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  • libragirl
    libragirl Posts: 4,632
    rvp wrote:
    institutional communications and media relations...

    That actually sounds interesting..although I'm not too sure what institutional communications is. I'm an admin assistant for a nonprofit..I'm basically a peon. :p
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  • rvp
    rvp Posts: 779
    libragirl wrote:
    That actually sounds interesting..although I'm not too sure what institutional communications is.
    me neither!! :D
    I'm a peon too, a glorifyed peon :(
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  • libragirl
    libragirl Posts: 4,632
    rvp wrote:
    me neither!! :D
    I'm a peon too, a glorifyed peon :(

    awww...Im just one period. :D.
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  • roar
    roar Posts: 1,116
    I get in trouble when I have nothing to do.

    “The Devil finds work for idle hands to do.”
  • JaneNY
    JaneNY Posts: 4,438
    I love parts of what I do, and dislike other parts. I wish I could work less and make the same amount of money. (What a surprise) I teach cardio/strength training dance-based aerobic classes. I love that part of it, but I'd like to be able to afford to teach less than 12 classes a week. I'd like to be able to teach 6, and I'd like all the bookkeeping and cleaning to happen magically.
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  • g under p
    g under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,237
    I didn't work today, I went to work but I was not feeling well at all. My first sick day 8 years I think, I honestly can't remember the last time I called in sick. :(

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  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    Of course I do. No-one realises just how hard a pimp's life really is.
  • Heineken Helen
    Heineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    dunkman wrote:
    this is the most pointless thread since PJfan01 started a thread called "who here is a PJ fan"

    everyone is gonna say they would prefer NOT to work.. if they say otherwise they are a liar... or a pornstar.
    No, you're the one talking shit :p . There's only so much travelling and seeing stuff and having fun that you could do before you probably think your life is slight bolloxed. I would definitely find something to occupy myself, but yeh, maybe some kinda personal project, do charity work, buy my own pub somewhere nice. But after a while I'd definitely need to do SOMETHING... but something that would make a difference... none of this 9-5 reporting to bosses bullshit.
    The Astoria??? Orgazmic!
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  • dunkman
    dunkman Posts: 19,646
    Heineken Helen wrote:
    No, you're the one talking shit :p . There's only so much travelling and seeing stuff and having fun that you could do before you probably think your life is slight bolloxed. I would definitely find something to occupy myself, but yeh, maybe some kinda personal project, do charity work, buy my own pub somewhere nice. But after a while I'd definitely need to do SOMETHING... but something that would make a difference... none of this 9-5 reporting to bosses bullshit.


    nope.. i could quite happily entertain myself for evermore if i didnt work... and if i had the money i'd maybe study photography and do that but not a 'job'... i speak as someone who spent 8 months unemployed and spent most of my days cycling into forests and reading books... great times :D

    and all this making a difference shite.... not one fucker helped me out in my life..
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • Heineken Helen
    Heineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    dunkman wrote:
    nope.. i could quite happily entertain myself for evermore if i didnt work... and if i had the money i'd maybe study photography and do that but not a 'job'... i speak as someone who spent 8 months unemployed and spent most of my days cycling into forests and reading books... great times :D

    and all this making a difference shite.... not one fucker helped me out in my life..
    not ONE? Did you ever NEED help? Like big help where you had to look for it? I never did and I appreciate the fact that I never HAD to depend on others for help... not everyone's so lucky.
    The Astoria??? Orgazmic!
    Verona??? it's all surmountable
    Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
    Wembley? We all believe!
    Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
    Chicago 07? And love
    What a different life
    Had I not found this love with you
  • xscorcho
    xscorcho Posts: 409
    i actually like working.....

    but id probably just do volunteer work and travel the rest of the time.
  • Sonja_S
    Sonja_S Vienna Posts: 444
    I really want to work again. I've been looking for a job for a few months and I'm itching to do something productive. I've done little projects for companies while job-hunting, but that's not enough for my bored little mind. I'll probably go to jail soon though because I'm going to kill the next bastard who doesn't hire me because I'm 'over 30 and the risk of losing a female executive by her getting pregnant is too high' :mad:
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  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
    It's very difficult finding a job that doesn't take more out of you than vice versa.
    Most jobs suck fat elephant dicks.
  • Buru
    Buru Posts: 8,473
    Heineken Helen wrote:
    ... but something that would make a difference... none of this 9-5 reporting to bosses bullshit.

    I feel the same way.
    y la banda de Guille... cuando toca?
  • rvp
    rvp Posts: 779
    Byrnzie wrote:
    It's very difficult finding a job that doesn't take more out of you than vice versa.
    Most jobs suck fat elephant dicks.
    It is true, most jobs suck!!! mainly because of bosses in my opinion, the entire idea of getting orders from someone else is atrocious!!
    but as murphys laws indicate, in my current job my boss is great, she works in a totally different building so I rarely hear from her and when I do she is cool and not demanding, but the guy that sits next to me: OH MY GOOD!!!! he is so unbelievably annoying!!! He listens to horrible music, tells me to put the volume down whenever I listen to PJ (says is too “hard”!!!!), he talks all day, spends all afternoon buying and selling stupid stuff on the internet (in 5 months he already bought 4 cell phones!!!!), he is always asking me questions about work, things he should know cause he’s been here almost 3 years and I got here 5 month ago!! He has this annoying voice that suddenly transform when he is on the phone, he is such an A hole he start talking like he is a radio presenter or something I hate him, when ever a boss is around he starts pretending to have a lot of work, I f**ing hate him… another reason why I don’t like to work, I don’t get paid to put up with his shit and yet I have to!!
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  • know1
    know1 Posts: 6,801
    I think work is a good thing for people. I'd just rather work at something I enjoyed more and not have to be so dependent on it. I'd probably still do some type of work about 40 hours per week, though.
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  • decides2dream
    decides2dream Posts: 14,977
    dunkman wrote:
    nope.. i could quite happily entertain myself for evermore if i didnt work... and if i had the money i'd maybe study photography and do that but not a 'job'... i speak as someone who spent 8 months unemployed and spent most of my days cycling into forests and reading books... great times :D


    wow...i actually agree with dunky! :) i edited out the part i disagree with tho. ;) i KNOW i could happily entertain myself....FOREVER...and i already have my MA in photography, so apparently, i'm all set. :D


    however, i would also quite happily just work a lot LESS in a non-stressing job...and just have peace of mind/security from a lotto win that would set me up as comfy for life but not stinkin' rich...that would work too, i am not greedy. i think more than anything it's the 'have to' of work that makes it a downer. i am really quite happy in my current job. but is it my life's calling and joy? um, no. so i'd be more than happy to NOT work at all...or at the very least, quite minimally with ample time to do ALL i enjoy.
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  • eyedclaar
    eyedclaar Posts: 6,980
    dunkman wrote:
    nope.. i could quite happily entertain myself for evermore if i didnt work... and if i had the money i'd maybe study photography and do that but not a 'job'... i speak as someone who spent 8 months unemployed and spent most of my days cycling into forests and reading books... great times :D

    and all this making a difference shite.... not one fucker helped me out in my life..


    No kidding. I would kill to not have to work and there is no way I'd ever get bored. Between playing music, hiking, camping, rafting, snowboarding, reading, writing, playing basketball, and on and on and on, I could use a couple lives worth of free time.

    Work sucks, but thankfully I have a government job, so I barely work at all and I'm almost expected to abuse sick leave! Basically I get paid to surf the net.
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  • dunkman
    dunkman Posts: 19,646
    eyedclaar wrote:
    Work sucks, but thankfully I have a government job, so I barely work at all and I'm almost expected to abuse sick leave! Basically I get paid to surf the net.

    hey doppelgänger... that describes my working day :D
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.

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