posted April 06, 2015 01:10 AM            

I loved that, and worth getting to the end! (If people can't be bothered to listen to all of it then I suggest skipping to the last 3 minutes or so, but it's better taken together.)

And for fun:
http://www.linda-goodman.com/ubb/Forum7/HTML/006501.html

posted April 06, 2015 03:05 AM            

Ah, jobism. The guy is right about how Puritans made it an ideal to live up to and though raw capitalism has taken put the more religious elements in the backseat (where they loudly give directions but aren't the ones at the wheel anymore) it's still there. Interesting enough, where wealth will often gloss over many flaws (for example, mix someone considered "crazy" with wealth and he becomes "eccentric") it's generally better seen as having a middle class job than being a rich trust fund kid. Until there's a contract involved it's rare for any artist or performer to get any respect no matter how much money they make, they're still seen as shiftless and irresponsible more often than not (and the contract is very likely to screw them over so they'll make less, especially as corporations typically find ways to pass along any costs such as promotion back to the suckers who signed). And then there's that classic NCO/sergeant line in the US military: "Don't call me sir, I WORK for a living!"

And to think how often people get screwed by their jobs. And even when they make a lot of money the upkeep (having the right clothes, sometimes even pressed and dry cleaned regularly, the gas for transportation, and countless other bills) make me wonder just how much "take home" pay is really theirs to keep due to spending it on the things they need for their job. And to think many also find therapy necessary to keep it up so add in the cost of that and meds. (I know some love their health plans but a lot of them aren't that good and even when they are they can be canceled if you lose your job, so when you really need it after that car wreck or cancer diagnosis you lose your job and the insurance that came with it.) I thought one theory I heard made a lot of sense on the reason alcohol and coffee are still legal is because people need the caffeine to perk up to do their jobs and then alcohol after to calm down and finally get to sleep, then wake up and repeat...

And then there's not only the "off the job expenses" but also "off the job homework." After seeing how much work teachers put into their jobs when not on the clock I can see why they typically have little sympathy for kids with just a little homework (and parents calling/emailing and the like can add more personal time lost to their job when they're not even being paid for it anymore--and then they get to hear how terrible they are and get paid too much).

posted April 06, 2015 03:06 AM            

The worst I knew was a friend of mine (though old enough to be my grandfather) who LOVED writing. He was once a professional writer (under contract) and still gets royalties to this day, and people think that's okay. But a wife he used to have wouldn't let him write for fun because that was a waste of time and only worth doing if you get paid and thus had to post fanfic and the like under a pseudonym because his wife actually searched the internet to see if he was still posting the stories he made for fun!

As if that wasn't twisted enough, he felt terrible when he wasn't actively working (despite that he got royalties and it sounded as if he'd amassed quite a bit of money) and it was such that he was finally able to get a job working in a center for the criminally insane. Not regular insane, mind you, but people who should be in prison but were so bad that even prison guards wouldn't have anything to do with them, and the violence there was pretty intense at times even with all the straps and heavy medications. I told him to quit, it wasn't a job worth having, but he felt terrible at not having a job...and his wife didn't want him to quit either as the pay was too good.

posted April 06, 2015 03:18 AM            

In it a demon like in Jeepers Creepers was chasing me and it was one morbid, gory nightmare throughout. It finally caught me and then impaled me on 5 swords as it needed me filled with rage and despair for some ritual to work. But once I realized I was going to die, I just let go and there was no more "should" ("I should," "People should," "Life should," etc) and as I let those go a tremendous sense of peace overcame me and the demon rages that it lost what it thought it had gained.

That peace was so intense that I meditated on it when I woke up. And then I put off the things I had planned and simply had fun all day after resolving to not worry about what I should do or how things should be for that single day. And it was one of the best days in my life.

posted April 06, 2015 04:26 AM            

I felt shocked, thinking to myself (me being 58).... "this young guy is a wage Slave - of Todays Times and he can't realise it.
He being so young is assuming this to be "normal" in this day & age.
He can't know how this is NOT how life should be, and it never used to be.

I will tell you this-
People are being more & MORE enslaved in these so-called "Modern Times".
This, - DESPITE "modern technology", (which was supposed to make life "easier", but has NOT)

If you are recognising that something is very wrong, that is a good sign.

It means you are becoming aware..
..-That you are living, & trapped in a/ ("The Matrix")!

Just think: Life SHOULD & COULD be much easier than this constant financial struggle to make ends meet.

posted April 06, 2015 05:53 AM            

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21j_OCNLuYg

posted April 08, 2015 05:52 PM            

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Originally posted by aquaguy91:
The thing about me is I don't mind working, but I refuse to be one of these people that goes to a job they hate every single day. A few months ago I briefly tried to stick with a job I hated and it was killing my soul. This job was the most monotonous and boring job you can imagine and it was 10 hours a day, 7 days a week! Oh, but the paychecks were nice! I stuck with that for a few weeks and was like "f*ck this" and went back to my old job. Who would sign up and stick with a job where they don't have a life outside of work? It would be one thing if it was a fun job that you enjoyed but working 7 days a week at a boring mundane job? That should be criminal! I agree with the guy that we need more of a balance. I've done what he suggested more than a few times. I've called into work or left work to hang out with friends or to do something I wanted to do. Life is too short to be a slave to work.

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