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chachamaru

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is over rated.

So much of our time is spent with people we don't like for money (aka a job).

And our loved ones get the left overs (aka when you get home/the weekend/holidays).

I hate this cycle.
 

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I like work. It keeps me busy and focused on a goal. Balances my life. Pays my bills and gives me money to play with.

Becoming a nasty person because of a hatred for your job and colleagues should be avoided, however.
 

chachamaru

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I like work. It keeps me busy and focused on a goal. Balances my life. Pays my bills and gives me money to play with.

Becoming a nasty person because of a hatred for your job and colleagues should be avoided, however.

Good point.

I don't hate my job... I hate having to work to live.

I want to be free.
 

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40 hours a week is less than 1/4th of your life. Look on the bright side!

There are so many people that work double that just to eat.
 

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40 hours a week is less than 1/4th of your life. Look on the bright side!

There are so many people that work double that just to eat.

The first fact: When you factor in sleep (50%+) with work (25%+)... you get only 25% of your life to live... truly live...

Second fact: Breaks my heart. And sometimes, they don't even eat enough.

Big picture: is depressing.
 

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mrs
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So you work an hour for every hour you play. Have you ever known people that don't work? They're not very well-rounded.
 

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You might be able to do something about it. Like you could get a job where you work at home or start a family business. Then you would be able to spend time more time with your family. Or you might find more work satisfaction if you found a job that contributed to society in some way that you really believe in. There are ways to improve the situation. :)
 

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Sometimes work sucks. But being homeless or starving to death sucks more. I prefer work.
 

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Some people are lucky enough to find a labour of love and the rest of us have to work. You can work less if you are willing to do things like
-Get off the grid (generate your own electricity/heat etc)
-Say no to modern conveniences and entertainment (TV, phone, car, cable, insurance, eating out, consumer goods, fashion etc)
-Find a cheap living situation or be homeless
-Welfare/food stamps?
-Marry Rich
-Win the lottery
-Stowaway to an abandoned tropical island...but you still have to hunt/gather etc. but it has meaning and purpose. Most jobs disconnect all that.

The system is designed to make you work and debt is slavery. Those who "create" the money profit the most, while adding the least production and value.

I agree on your 25% of life disappointment and always want more ME time and wish I had work/career/my own business that I enjoy. Someday I will figure it out.

Just imagine what it was like when people worked as children for 12 hrs a day 6 days a week in sweat factories and coal mines, before labor laws or the suffering during the great depression. We are still pretty lucky to have what we have if you compare. I do wish we had Europe's liberal vacation policies though. Some people even like menial jobs. I admire and respect that in some ways. Most of us are conditioned to want more more more and end up unhappy.
 

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There's always home invasions and pawnshops. :coffee:

Unless pawnbrokers quit working.
 

Lateralus

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It's all opinions. Take a shot.
What we are "meant" to do is irrelevant. What is relevant is that you require food and shelter to survive. The most efficient way of obtaining food and shelter is to get a job that pays you money so you can buy them. There are other ways to obtain food and shelter, but they are more difficult for most people. You are free to take another path if it suits you. If you should feel anything, you should feel fortunate that you live in a time and in a society where survival is not a daily struggle.
 

Stigmata

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Working is fine if done as to provide the means to some type of end, whatever it may be, but some people get so caught up in the concept of simply working and earning money, that they eventually lose sight of what the purpose for doing this actually is. I'm personally of the belief that I should work only as hard as necessary as to sustain myself in whatever fashion I deem appropriate, with anything else clouding me of the my end, which is maximizing the amount of time left over for using as I see fit. Money aids in establishing a false sense of security, and is generally used to distract us with nothing more than temporal pleasures.
 

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Work is essential. No one ever has food on their table that wasn't brought it by means other than work. Someone has to work to get it.
 
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