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birdbrain said:
Can anyone tell me the point of it all? Get up, go to work, get shafted by management, go home, do meaningless shit for a couple of hours, go to bed, then do the whole thing again the next day.
Seems like your thinking along the same lines as Brad Pitt in fight club when he goes on about working in a job you don't like for sh*t you don't need.
Guess it all comes down to what you want in life, but at the end of the day we live in a capitalist/materialistic world.
>> Edited by Dakkon on Tuesday 18th January 09:24
Completely agree with this but you can do something about it - just jack it in. Thats what I'm doing. I've left my job, I'm just temping now and I already feel much better, no worries, if I don't like a job I just walk out. The house is being sold so that gets rid of the millstone. I've bought a big bike and the world beckons for the next few years...
Careers are well well over rated! In the end I'd rather be a bit poor but have had a good, fun life, seen lots of things and met lots of people than be a slave to this stupid stupid system.
Get out there and do it... Things have a habit of working out if you are brave enough!!
Careers are well well over rated! In the end I'd rather be a bit poor but have had a good, fun life, seen lots of things and met lots of people than be a slave to this stupid stupid system.
Get out there and do it... Things have a habit of working out if you are brave enough!!
If it's that bad you need to do something about it. Most people don't want to leave a wellpaid job for something where they earn peanuts thoough - very understanable when you have a big mortgage, kids etc and if you are used to a certain lifestyle..
Prehaps there is a compromise to be had?
Prehaps there is a compromise to be had?
twit said:
Completely agree with this but you can do something about it - just jack it in. Thats what I'm doing. I've left my job, I'm just temping now and I already feel much better, no worries, if I don't like a job I just walk out. The house is being sold so that gets rid of the millstone. I've bought a big bike and the world beckons for the next few years...
Careers are well well over rated! In the end I'd rather be a bit poor but have had a good, fun life, seen lots of things and met lots of people than be a slave to this stupid stupid system.
Get out there and do it... Things have a habit of working out if you are brave enough!!
For a lot of people it's not so easy to just jack it in as they have loved ones/children and other financial commitments which mean they need an income, then you get the feeling of being trapped.
Well im on yet another implementation, managed by idiots, Go-live is end of next week, they now expect you to work all ours in the day, just want to go home to bed really
I disagree with a bit of this, you can make change and do what you want if you go for it. I know two families - mum, dad and kids who are travelling the world together - one of them two up on a bike with child in the sidecar! They are loving it! The problem is, I think, that we are conditioned to wanting a house, nice car, career etc. In the end none of that matters, as long as you and those around you are happy, can eat and have somewhere to call home if you want it.
On the flip side I also know plenty of people who have careers and 'travel' around the world. For that read they travel everywhere by business class, go to cities and stay in posh hotels... Thats fine but in my view that is hardly experiencing the world! When I was last in India I saw people on some posh train going though the country. They sneered at the street kids and jumped form train to air-con bus to site to bus to train... What was the point? may as well have watched a video in a sauna!!! Anyway that is not the point, the point is that if you want to change and get off the slave system here you can do, you just need to go for it.
For the record a few years ago I thought careers etc were important... Getting rid of that notion has made me a much happier and nicer person as everyone around me will testify!!!
On the flip side I also know plenty of people who have careers and 'travel' around the world. For that read they travel everywhere by business class, go to cities and stay in posh hotels... Thats fine but in my view that is hardly experiencing the world! When I was last in India I saw people on some posh train going though the country. They sneered at the street kids and jumped form train to air-con bus to site to bus to train... What was the point? may as well have watched a video in a sauna!!! Anyway that is not the point, the point is that if you want to change and get off the slave system here you can do, you just need to go for it.
For the record a few years ago I thought careers etc were important... Getting rid of that notion has made me a much happier and nicer person as everyone around me will testify!!!
As for a European holiday...
Well its a bit more than that... Round the world, fully, taking in as many countries as possible, including Iran, Pakistan etc, I want to see these so called rogue states myself to prove to myself that thay are nothing of the sort. And how long, well planning to be away for 3-4 years. As I need to work I will, no probs...
That is life, not being a slave to a mortgage etc!!
Well its a bit more than that... Round the world, fully, taking in as many countries as possible, including Iran, Pakistan etc, I want to see these so called rogue states myself to prove to myself that thay are nothing of the sort. And how long, well planning to be away for 3-4 years. As I need to work I will, no probs...
That is life, not being a slave to a mortgage etc!!
I stopped working just over a year ago, completely changed my life, yes I miss the income, although I think that it's come as a greater shock to my children that they now have to save hard for what they want, but I think that's a really good lesson.
Holidays, well, we have less now and one includes camping.
What we all have now is lots of good times together.
Holidays, well, we have less now and one includes camping.
What we all have now is lots of good times together.
birdbrain said:
Can anyone tell me the point of it all? Get up, go to work, get shafted by management, go home, do meaningless shit for a couple of hours, go to bed, then do the whole thing again the next day.
The most soul destroying thing is working more than half the year for the goverment. For this they provide me with services I could buy at a tenth the price.
birdbrain said:
I like the job but I don't like the management.
Put a contract out on them. These guys do a good job. Tell them I sent you and you'll get smart points as well.
www.assasinsareus.com
Problem solved.
birdbrain said:
Can anyone tell me the point of it all? Get up, go to work, get shafted by management, go home, do meaningless shit for a couple of hours, go to bed, then do the whole thing again the next day.
make this stuff count for you then. at least you will have a reason to suffer the job. It starts with putting an axe through the TV screen (apart from Sundays at 8pm
)Totally agree with making your spare time count.
I usually have three or four things on the go to do when I have spare time from the kids and nothing to watch on telly/DVD.
I have read loads of the books that I have always felt I should, Great Expectations, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, 10,000 Leagues Under the Sea, etc. If I don't want to read I am building a train track in the garage for the kids and am planning to start the scalextric one in a few months when I have bought all the old bits I am trawling the net for.
In the future I intend to teach myself how to play the piano, having given up when I was a kid. If you think about it there are hundreds of things you can do to make good use of, and enjoy, your spare time.
On the job front - look around for another employer if you don't like the one you've got and can't stand them. Hell you could even think about starting your own business.
Good luck!
I usually have three or four things on the go to do when I have spare time from the kids and nothing to watch on telly/DVD.
I have read loads of the books that I have always felt I should, Great Expectations, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, 10,000 Leagues Under the Sea, etc. If I don't want to read I am building a train track in the garage for the kids and am planning to start the scalextric one in a few months when I have bought all the old bits I am trawling the net for.
In the future I intend to teach myself how to play the piano, having given up when I was a kid. If you think about it there are hundreds of things you can do to make good use of, and enjoy, your spare time.
On the job front - look around for another employer if you don't like the one you've got and can't stand them. Hell you could even think about starting your own business.
Good luck!
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