Office Space. But also, Been in all those. It’s weird to remember that your employer doesn’t actually want you to be productive and fix the problems to be profitable. They want to appear to be doing that. You’ll go further in your career by playing those games rather than working. I, unfortunately, like doing the work to keep the company going instead of the games, which is not as profitable for myself, but it keeps the company from dying even though they don’t realize it, and keeps them rich. Win? I’d rather be planting corn at this point.
Man the “rather be planting corn at this point” is such a pandemic thought as well. I fantasize about working in a bookstore, buddies of mine think about owning a restaurant, driving public transport vehicles (2 people), repairing bikes, etc. One of my colleagues just actually did it, he quit his job and started to be a baker. Corporate scrum is killing us and all we want to do is work.
The absolutely critical difference between the work you, your buddies, and basically everyone else wants to do, versus corporate “”“work”“”, is that you want to do it because it’d make you happier and your community healthier, as opposed to making a line go up for some shareholders who honestly wouldn’t care if you died tomorrow so long as it made the line go up a little further. Neoliberal Capitalism is Hell, man.
I retired (aka was laid off) from my job as a programmer, spent a few years converting a used school bus into a motorhome, and now I drive a real school bus. It’s insane how much happier I am, even though I make about a sixth of what I used to make and even though middle-schoolers really do suck as human beings. Money is certainly not everything.
No, very few. Sports being one of them. It took almost a year but now I like it, and miss it if I don’t get the chance to exercise. Getting a garmin watch helped me stay motivated, because I could see the progress I was making. I went from running 2.5km at 7min/km pace and almost dying to running 10km at 6min/km pace and feeling great, even being able to talk during. And I feel so, so much better in general. It’s like the difference between being hungover vs normal, but all the time.
Office Space. But also, Been in all those. It’s weird to remember that your employer doesn’t actually want you to be productive and fix the problems to be profitable. They want to appear to be doing that. You’ll go further in your career by playing those games rather than working. I, unfortunately, like doing the work to keep the company going instead of the games, which is not as profitable for myself, but it keeps the company from dying even though they don’t realize it, and keeps them rich. Win? I’d rather be planting corn at this point.
Man the “rather be planting corn at this point” is such a pandemic thought as well. I fantasize about working in a bookstore, buddies of mine think about owning a restaurant, driving public transport vehicles (2 people), repairing bikes, etc. One of my colleagues just actually did it, he quit his job and started to be a baker. Corporate scrum is killing us and all we want to do is work.
The absolutely critical difference between the work you, your buddies, and basically everyone else wants to do, versus corporate “”“work”“”, is that you want to do it because it’d make you happier and your community healthier, as opposed to making a line go up for some shareholders who honestly wouldn’t care if you died tomorrow so long as it made the line go up a little further. Neoliberal Capitalism is Hell, man.
I retired (aka was laid off) from my job as a programmer, spent a few years converting a used school bus into a motorhome, and now I drive a real school bus. It’s insane how much happier I am, even though I make about a sixth of what I used to make and even though middle-schoolers really do suck as human beings. Money is certainly not everything.
I’ll never understand this. I was born in a city. I never worked in a field. I hate physical exertion. Planting corn would be my definition of hell.
Sports are good for the mind and the body. You should try it
Do you try many things you hate because they’re good for you? Don’t lie.
No, very few. Sports being one of them. It took almost a year but now I like it, and miss it if I don’t get the chance to exercise. Getting a garmin watch helped me stay motivated, because I could see the progress I was making. I went from running 2.5km at 7min/km pace and almost dying to running 10km at 6min/km pace and feeling great, even being able to talk during. And I feel so, so much better in general. It’s like the difference between being hungover vs normal, but all the time.