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Can't tell if you are being ironic or not.
"Hmm, I only have anywhere from probably 45-80 years of existence as an entity before it's gone forever. I better spend an overwhelming proportion of that time moving beans from this place to that place". If that's how you derive satisfaction in your life, cool, you do you. But for me, fuck that. I work only as much as I need to to fund the things I actually want to spend my life doing. And luckily I was born rich then also married rich so that amount of required work is virtually non-existent. Even so, I'd be happy with virtually nothing materially as long as I had my wife and my freedom. To clarify, that freedom is freedom from labor, freedom from having to sell my limited time on this Earth to somebody else in order to simply survive. That's not life, it's slavery with extra steps, and I find it so sad and pathetic. | ||
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Work sucks, but I have done it consistently since I was 14. I've only had a few jobs I honestly enjoyed and didn't dread. The one I have now, having escaped hospitality since covid blasted it all out, is alright. I can listen to music and only deal with people via email and just crack on. It pays okay.
My retirement fund is a bit thin after a shitload of medical bills, but oh well, I just work until I die I guess Still beats those dudes pulling blocks of sulfur out of a volcano for pennies in Indonesia like in Workingman's Death, so it's all relative | ||
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Our work becomes our identity, saying what we do for a living is most often the thing that follows our name as our sense of self. It creates a purpose in life, and usually the satisfaction that we are bettering the lives of others as well with our efforts Choosing to not be a “slave” to some employer will often inadvertently just leave someone a slave to their own short-term pleasure impulses, a slave to their own hedonism. Which is why you so often see the younger unemployed become addicted to short-term fixes like illegal drugs I recommend when retiring still creating a sense of purpose and structure | |||
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If I could make ends meet by doing absolutely nothing all day, I would do that, but I can't so I don't. I probably won't really get to retire. Maybe these job things create a sense of purpose for you, great. I take pride in the things I create and get fulfillment from that, I do not experience pride related to work whatsoever. It's just what gives me the ability to do whatever else. All this nonsense about the glory of drudgery seems like the modern worker's way to express what is capitalist exploitation propaganda. Learning to love our chains and all. Americans have internalized it wholeheartedly. Mike Rowe has done tremendous damage to us all on behalf of the Koch brothers, along with a whole other retinue of villains | |||
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Things given do not create the same sort of character growth as things earned Also work puts us into a routine, and having a routine is necessary for mental stability. We are creatures of habit, have always been. We need to develop the healthy habits | |||
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M-F: Up at 4:30am, catch a bus to work by 5:30am Work till 3pm, catch a bus home. Walk into home, change into gym clothes, and jog to the gym. Do my hour, come home, cook dinner. Take the dog for a walk and shower. Enjoy 2 hours of free time before winding down for bed. Rinse/Repeat and be happy [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] | |||
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The answer is Motherhood. Motherhood is the hardest job, isn't that right Bill Burr?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Xp4z5qlyqs | ||
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Being a (the) matriarch of a strong, healthy, spiritually well and happy productive pretty household is the hardest job!
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