Why do you go to work?

Work keeps the roof over my head, and the bills payed... just... and also allows me to have the time for a bit of music.

If I won the lottery I would simply buy a house out in the West of Herefordshire, do my own thing, and forget the outside world as far as I could. No World cruises or international travel for me. Naturally there would be a tump of money left when I finally shuffle off, so that could be left to something worthwhile!

Fredrik

Maybe I'm a lazy git but surely you have to be nuts if you work when you don't need to.
Unless of course you're a gynaecologist. One job where things are really looking up.

Regards,
Steve O.

Thers is no greater spring in your step, nor do the hours seem so short, as when you work for yourself. Being both a crap employer and a crap worker simultaneously is an unbeatable combination for a bit of slapstick humour at wage negotiations.

I always figured that being self-employed just makes your clients your boss(es).

Work pays the mortgage and so on; I can't think of any other reasons for spending 8 hours a day doing it. I think Fredrik put it a nutshell - that's the way I feel too; though I'd buy a house in Suffolk because it's home. Work forces me to live well away from Suffolk and that's another good reason to wish I didn't have to work.

To pay the rent, and student debt.

I hate my job, but I'll almost certainly hate any other one just as much or more.

If humans were meant to work, we'd have been designed to survive on 1 hour's sleep a night.

I guess it is either too painful to talk about or it has been talked to death. Anyway, may the next year bring more joy(s) to those who are not having any this year and to those who have plenty of it, continue to do so. Long live the 555!

I go to work to pay the many debts I've accumulated over the years. I'm sure I must have royal genes in me as my tastes are well beyond what any normal person requires. Sadly I don't have the taxpayer to support me.

And I hate every single minute of it. There are apparently tons of folk who enjoy their work. Well let them do even more of it to support me while I listen to music, drink, and do crosswords.

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Originally posted by TomK:

And I hate every single minute of it.

Thanks for the honesty Tom.

I don't resort to swearing much (on the Forum anyway) but my work experience can be summed up thus:

Taking shit from arseholes because I need the money.

I'm determined to change it and complete my law degree - and become.....a ?

Oh dear.

What's worrying though is that I've actually got quite a good, well paid job. In spite of what I said I don't hate every minute of it although for reasons I won't go into here I have some genuine grievances towards my employer. The whole idea of spending so much time doing something I enjoy only now and again seems quite unnatural. Sometimes I think it'd be better to be working in some sort of self contained agricultural type position but that would would only work if I could maintain some of my current standards i.e. I need my hifi! Basically I'm a soft sod who's finding that the capitalist system that's often worked in my favour no longer does so now I've reached a certain age.

There are folk much worse off than me but that doesn't really help sadly.

"Ahpitydafool!" who gets so far into debt he can't choose to downgrade his job and enjoy the simple things. (Sorry but my younger son's just discovered the A-Team)

Oh well, I am sorry to hear all the post about how terrible work is.

Good on you Deane. You are obviously trying to climb out of a ....So when you have paid off your student loan etc and are set up for life in a posh abode with the best Naim have at that time, will you still feel like how you currently feel? Something to keep your chin up about? All the best.

Do we not make our bed to some degree and then moan about having to lie on something we loath?

Also, sacrifice now to reap the rewards later, seem to be a foreign concept these days. Why is that?

I seem to remember something about the Australian Aboriginal people spending no more than four hours a day on subsistence - and that in only the harshest and most arid parts of the desert. I assume the rest of the day was spent bonking and playing.

They never had the chance to work harder I guess - and spend their free time tweaking Fraims and pondering analogue vs. digital.

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Originally posted by wellyspyder:
Oh well, I am sorry to hear all the post about how terrible work is.

Good on you Deane. You are obviously trying to climb out of a ....So when you have paid off your student loan etc and are set up for life in a posh abode with the best Naim have at that time, will you still feel like how you currently feel? Something to keep your chin up about? All the best.

For the record, I am a happy man. Complete, as content as it is seemly for a man to be and still curious about the world.

I'd prefer people didn't draw inferences about my state of mind from what I post on the Forum. (My therapist will be publishing soon anyway.)

I did not think you were unhappy etc. Just wanted to say some words of encouragement but if it came across as patronising, then it was not intended.

Not all of what I wrote in my previous thread was for you, only the 1 paragraph. Nevermind.

My apologies, wellyspyder. There have been a few remarks passed lately - a few of them less than encouraging - the cost of being personal on the Forum I guess. So please forgive me for reading into your post things that were not there.

Deane

I really can't see how you can avoid responses to your endless new threads of a navel-contemplation nature. It goes with the territory.

Just think yourself lucky that only three of the ~8000 members of these forums publicly declared that they wanted you to sit on their virtual knee for a comforting cuddle.

Nime

Bah humbug!

Deane

That's my line!

If God had meant us to work, he would have given us jobs!

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Why do you go to work?

I like my job
And it pays the rent etc. I've (almost) always tried to do the best out of a job, ie given it my "best" even if it sucked. This way I at least could always keep my self-respect. A job can "suck" in different ways, beeing boring, looked down at, badly paid, fucked-up working-mates (matinnes?) etc. Most people do have some sparetime (at least forummembers ) and life can be relly fulfilling in ones sparetime!

Life is a box of chocolate and then you marry one...
A travesty not too serious

Regards
Rickard

Life is just a bowl of All-Bran, you wake up every morning and it's there.

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Originally posted by ROTF:
If God had meant us to work, he would have given us jobs!

He did! A few minutes hunting and picking fruit throughout the day and the village's dietary needs were taken care of.
What went wrong? The first phat idiot who wanted somebody else to do the hunting and the fruit picking because he was too damn lazy to do it himself!

So he put on a funny hat and promised the biggest guy in the village a tiny portion of the picked fruit. Being thick, the foreman was taken in and his loyalty knew no bounds. So the fruit pickers and hunters went into overtime so the village chief could have a solid gold doorbell on his hut (as one of his favorite wives demanded)

Them and us?

I had to laugh out loud yesterday while listening to the radio: The employers federation were up in arms because they couldn't fill several thousand low-paid jobs. The spokesman demanded that unemployment benifit was reduced to force people into paid work. He kept fending off the interviewer's pointed suggestions that perhaps the work on offer was grossly underpaid.

On the same subject a cleaning company federation spokeman kept saying they couldn't compete if wages rose. Oh wow! Haven't they heard of supply and demand? Surely the best cleaners should be attracted to the best companies by setting wages and conditions at a suitable level to get the right people? It sounds as if a bit of serious head-hunting is required here. Blinkers anybody?

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Originally posted by ROTF:
Life is just a bowl of All-Bran, you wake up every morning and it's there.

And so is yesterday's.

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Originally posted by Nime:

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Originally posted by ROTF:
Life is just a bowl of All-Bran, you wake up every morning and it's there.

And so is yesterday's.

Very pithy.

I stopped working for other people 3 years ago, but tomorrow go for '1-1' interview for such employment as I miss having a laugh with other real people.