Why do you go to work?

If I ever can get out of having a boss, as opposed to clients, I would never go back! Fredrik

I am self-employed, but two to four days a week I work at Ogilvy & Mather, the ad agency in Canary Wharf. I love going in there for many reasons:

1. The money is very good
2. I get to work alongside my best friend
3. The vast majority of people there are fab
4. They have a (subsidised) bar in the office - £2 for a pint of Stella
5. They have a very good restaurant (again, subsidised)
6. It's a very casual, non-heirachical place - the chairman and CEO are often in the bar and always get the rounds in
7. They give you what I regard as the most important thing in a job - praise and recognition for a job well done
8. There are a lot of gorgeous-looking women there (OK I'm shallow)
9. It's a very not-up-its-own-arse kind of place (unlike a lot of ad and communications agencies) - it's a very friendly and informal place
10. I get to do something worthwhile (ie working on a lot of pro bono charidee accounts)
11. Er, that's it

K

Reason to work should be that work is useful/fun/people involved are socially nice/entertaining, and that maybe you get paid fairly.

Most people seem to work at doing things that are not good for the planet, and lots get paid more for producing crap than do some who do useful things.

Agreed. Women are far better at parallel processing. The ideal brain for management and leadership belong to the stronger sex. But guess who we got lumbered with?

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Deane F
Senior Member
Posted Sat 15 October 2005 09:38
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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.

Only if you add oranges or lemons and don't peel them

As for why I go to work, I suppose it's because it's what you do. I like to pay my way in the world and I started my "working" life at the age of 16 in a Friday evening/Saturday job. It has never occured to me not be in work, and even when I reach retirement age, I will still look for a part time job to keep me occupied.

At the moment work pays the bills and provides the money for leisure. It also means that I will have a roof over my head in retirement and money to spend. A part time job in retirement will keep me active - you hear of people popping off shortly after retiring as they no longer have stress in their lives, and their bodies just give up. I have no intention of getting there and not being able to enjoy myself - after all retirement is the time you get your NICs back from the government isn't it?

I like what I do - my work colleagues are fun, interesting people and being there is not a major chore. Ok, so there are elements that rankle - politics and posturing, but on the whole, things are ticketty-boo.

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Originally posted by TomK:
"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)

Only 4 years to go...

HOW do you get a job at Ogilvy and Mayer then?? I've always fancied working there since I saw that "Skycraper" series on CH4 in the late 80s - the company name always had a "cool" ring to it for me.

I wish I'd kept my art up and not got suckered into a computing job. As soon as that bank loan's dusted, I'm off.

Odd, but only yesteday I was listening to the danish steam radio (as you do) and hearing that humanities graduates are going to be in great demand in the IT industries in the future. The public is allegedly sick of things that work but need a degree in engineering to turn the damn things on. So they are going to dumb down the kit by using qualified humanities people to help guide the design process. "Our sprung door teknik" is finally on the way out, apparently.
I'm still trying to work out how an archeoligist can help design a mobile phone. I suppose they are just used to puzzling artefacts?