the good news is i have a plan
ok so lets get going papi ... what are you waiting for?
the good news is i have a plan
ok so lets get going papi ... what are you waiting for?
it's friday so today i get to drink weak beer and piss my life away
I don't go to work with a smile on my face every morning
I would take that $1500 offer as well
Not really. It'd be not that big wage. Prices here are pretty high comparing to wages.Yeah, but well....that would make you like the fucking Bill Gates of Ukraine.
i've been in mildly heated discussions about this sort of thing with some of my friends. the "single life" thread got me thinking a little bit more about it.
do you find it difficult to find worthwhile things to do with your time if you're alone, no girlfriend, no job, no school, no obligations? are you easily bored? can you think of exciting things to do every day by yourself or do you actually prefer to kill 8 hours a day by working?
i said to some buddies that if i was promised $1500 or so a month for the rest of my life with the condition that i could never work again, i would take that offer hands down, because i REALLY ENJOY being alone and doing random things. everyone else was like "no, life is boring if you don't work, all i do with my time if i have no obligations is play world of warcraft/watch tv/masturbate"
do you need to be a creative/artsy/slacker sort of individual to find the notion of having your time to yourself very attractive? i'd walk around randomly and take pictures of nothing, listen to a bunch of music and record some music, read a boatload of books, honestly there's NO END to the things i would do if i had infinite time. every hour of pointless work fucking TORMENTS me.
sorry mr. russell, i generally like you, but i just don't understand this. i guess i'm one of the few that has reached the highest level of civilized life?
wow this is not a coherent text
Yeah, but well....that would make you like the fucking Bill Gates of Ukraine.
but who decided in the first place that you need to earn your free time? i realize that our entire society is built upon the idea that nearly everyone needs to work in order for it to function properly, and that even before society was organized like this you still had to "work" every day, often much harder than now, (though in olden times, work was more directly connected to survival -- now the relationship between food on your table and sitting at a desk 8 hours a day is hidden between several layers of abstraction) -- but don't you ever feel that "hey, there's something wrong with this -- why shouldn't i get to do what i want with my life, all the time?" whether that's practically plausible or not is not within the scope of this discussion.I don't think of work as just something to do. I think of it as what enables me to have freedom to do what I want in my personal time... be it go places, experience art, create wonderful food, make music and improve my tools for making music, etc.
it depends on the context of "pointless". do i feel that the work i am doing now is pointless (or worse) to me in the sense that it DETRACTS rather than CONTRIBUTES to my personal well-being and self-realization? yes. do i also realize that every job has A POINT in allowing society to function as it does, and that probably someone somewhere benefits from the work i do (including me since i get dollarz in the bank?) sure do. in that sense, work isn't pointless, but that's not the point (!). and i am firm in my conviction that there is also work for me that would not be pointless on a personal level -- and this is the work i aspire to find at all costs (hopefully.)Ok, so this discussion is NOT about work, but it's based on the presumption that WORK IS POINTLESS and I do not agree with this.
i don't think i've victimized myself a lot in this thread. it was not i who turned the thread in the "work is shit" direction. if i somehow knew for a fact that i would work stupid pointless shit job for the next 40 years i would probably kill myself, and that's not a BOO HOO LOOK AT ME I'M A SPOILED SWEDE WHO NEEDS TO LEARN TO SHUT UP AND WORK LIKE EVERYONE ELSE WHO'S NOT COMPLAININ' thing it's just that i cannot be content with mediocrity.Sure, I don't go to work with a smile on my face every morning but, for example, work does give me a sense of selfworth, and I find some kind of pleasure in knowing I have done a good job. I DONT UNDERSTAND WHY EVERYTHING HAS TO BE EITHER BLACK OR WHITE. That being said: Yes I would probably find enough stuff to do with my life without working but then again I don't see myself as some god damn victim because I go to work and can't feed myself by making art from my farts.