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green butter posted...

Leanaunfurled posted...

Also keep in mind that, I do believe, the vast majority of human beings are capable of enjoying more than one thing. Yes, I'm aware there are limitations. The entertainment industry I will say is mostly dependent on luck or connections. Others will be hindered by a mental or physical handicap(s). What I'm saying overall is that there are so many options to live a different way and barely anyone is aware of them or even thinks about exploring it. It's like society has a rule book where you have to live life in a certain way in a certain order, one of those being you have to do the job grind and if you're not suffering, you're not working hard.

lol you sound like me at age 17

Society and cultures do shape our perceived "needs" and "wants" and it can negatively affect us by having expectations that are not met.
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green butter posted...

Leanaunfurled posted...

Also keep in mind that, I do believe, the vast majority of human beings are capable of enjoying more than one thing. Yes, I'm aware there are limitations. The entertainment industry I will say is mostly dependent on luck or connections. Others will be hindered by a mental or physical handicap(s). What I'm saying overall is that there are so many options to live a different way and barely anyone is aware of them or even thinks about exploring it. It's like society has a rule book where you have to live life in a certain way in a certain order, one of those being you have to do the job grind and if you're not suffering, you're not working hard.

lol you sound like me at age 17

She's got a point though. The "rule book" for how one has to live has never been more open-ended than it is today. It's easier than ever for you to uproot your life and move halfway around the world for example (and there are people on CE who have done it), or work remotely or start your own company. The barriers to entry are lower than they ever have been because of modern technology.
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green butter posted...

Leanaunfurled posted...

Also keep in mind that, I do believe, the vast majority of human beings are capable of enjoying more than one thing. Yes, I'm aware there are limitations. The entertainment industry I will say is mostly dependent on luck or connections. Others will be hindered by a mental or physical handicap(s). What I'm saying overall is that there are so many options to live a different way and barely anyone is aware of them or even thinks about exploring it. It's like society has a rule book where you have to live life in a certain way in a certain order, one of those being you have to do the job grind and if you're not suffering, you're not working hard.

lol you sound like me at age 17

And you sound like someone who's been beaten down by our society. I've had pessimistic moments but they don't stick very well. It isn't in me.
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ChaoticKnuckles posted...

For some people, what they want to do is actually impossible, again, for any number of reasons. I'm all for hard work and determination and a positive can do attitude but realistically speaking, even that isn't enough sometimes.

Like I said, I agree. But I think that the cases in which this isn't the case are a lot more prevalent than when it is, at least in the US.

However, it's an easy coping mechanism to call for impossibility so that you don't feel guilty about not trying. It's the same underlying pattern when students in college start "accepting" certain grades in certain classes. "I'm happy with my C in Calc II because that's all I could have really expected given my ability in math".
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When I think of dreams/goals that become literally impossible, they are usually sports related. Like once you're past a certain age in that sport, it's basically impossible to be competitive at it. This is especially fucked up for sports like gymnastics where it seems like you're past your peak by 21.
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1) I need the income
2) I still find what I do interesting, even if its fucking frustrating a lot of the time
3) I've tried lazing about and it turns out I go nuts after only a couple of months, so its either work or wind up in a loony bin in a few years
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My thing is more that I can't keep my level of concentration. I'll do okay in the morning, get caffeine in my body and do a lot of work, then after lunch my mind wanders, I can't focus or get anything done. Which sucks for many, many reasons.

wat do CE
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I remember that I'm one day closer to the weekend. One week closer to a special event (Stat holiday, birthday, christmas, vacation, etc.) And one year closer to retirement.

Honestly I don't mind going to work, I just don't like waking up before 6am
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NES4EVER posted...

Honestly I don't mind going to work, I just don't like waking up before 6am

Something like this. The issue isn't that I have to wake up early to go to work, no. My issue is knowing that I'm going to be there for the next 8 hrs. doing monotonous crap.

If I could just work a 4-5 hr. shift as opposed to 8, I sure as hell wouldn't mind doing what I do.
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Work in a place with a ton of cute girls.
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It really depends on what you want out of life, and what you're willing to sacrifice. There are many, many options, but you need to take action in some way.

If work is a means to an end, you have to ask yourself, what do you want to do? Are you working towards something? Without goals, life feels meaningless to me. I have to make myself strive for things, because first world life is so comfortable. So I visualize what I want and fantasize about it. Currently working towards a sound system my friend will help me install.

Tc said, marijuana reviewer and couch tester. And that's fine, he wants to smoke pot and be lazy as fuck. Just realize that shouldn't be the norm. You probably have some personal issues to air out. When people watch television all day and eat, that's unhealthy. Drugs are affecting your motivation and perception.

You don't realize you're in an altered state that's separate from your high.

I do drugs of all kinds but I'm not lazy. I like my job and I enjoy working. Doing manual labor and whatever. I have a lot of energy. The trick is, if you've already gone flabby, you may not enioy being active.

contribute to society, being poor sucks balls, get out of the house, complacency causes me to get depressed

lots of reasons
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drunkmuggle posted...

at some point you realize that work is work, and I find that many people understand that to be true and share that wisdom

“A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labour and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing, and leaves others to determine whether he is working or playing. To himself, he always appears to be doing both.”

- L.P. Jacks (1860-1955)

The purported distinction between 'work' and 'leisure' is one of the greatest fallacies of our society. We try and frame work as something you would prefer not to be doing, then expect people to be content doing exactly that for the majority of their remaining lifetime. No wonder we find more and more young people 'dropping out' of the 9 to 5 lifestyle. There's hardly any point working at all if you don't enjoy it, and therefore don't intend to put every fiber of your being into it.

Hardly any point, except being able to own and pay for things.
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I enjoy eating sushi, driving my WRX, and (extremely slowly) expanding my firearms collection.
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green butter posted...

Leanaunfurled posted...

green butter posted...

can you provide an example of what kind of job you are talking about here? my experiences as a professional and those of the people around me have not shown me anything in between these two categories

I'll name random things I'm not necessarily interested in. Makeup artists, something that most everybody doesn't even think of, or any behind-the-scenes type of work for stage productions, news channels, etc. If someone likes fixing or building, there are prospects in electrician, architecture, tower technician, and especially if you're good at repairing technology. The people who type shit in court can make good $ (forget what they're called, my bad). There's working in health such as therapist,mental or physical, vet, nutritionist, speech pathologist, audiologist, and the other day I met a woman who was a traveling nurse (which I didn't know that was even a thing) that loved it. She said it's only good for those who don't have a family of their own, though.

If you're good with dead people there's a funeral director, embalmer, autopsy. And with technology being the ruler of our world, there's shit like web design, app developer, graphic design, art animation. And overall random crap like real estate, interior design, landscape, event/wedding planning, freelancing, food stall/truck, air traffic controller, technical writer, translator, travel/blogger, museum, etc. etc.

typing shit into spreadsheets for hours, regardless of what topic the shit you're typing into the spreadsheet is

god damn i love spreadsheets

there's nothing more sexier than dragging a vlookup across a nice spreadsheet
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when you change one number and all of the other numbers change automatically >>>>>>
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BreezyExcursion posted...

when you change one number and all of the other numbers change automatically >>>>>>

im rock hard
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is anyone in this topic good with dead people
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BreezyExcursion posted...

is anyone in this topic good with dead people

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Sorry my mind isn't open enough for that!!!
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BreezyExcursion posted...

is anyone in this topic good with dead people

ever since i was a lil bucakroo everyone always used to comment on how good i was with embalming corpses and presenting these bodies to their families.

now i am going to follow my dreams of becoming a mortician! you can work your passion!
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green butter posted...

ever since i was a lil bucakroo everyone always used to comment on how good i was with embalming corpses and presenting these bodies to their families.

now i am going to follow my dreams of becoming a mortician! you can work your passion!

This sounds like a joke but that is pretty much the life story of a close friend of mine. She just graduated with her mortuary science degree and is excited to start working with the dead.
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Find a way to be content with your career. Find a way to become interested in the tasks you do. Look at it as a challenge you're taking on. Push yourself to be the best at it, whatever it is. At the very least, understand that if you don't get up and go to work, you don't get money, and you'll be living on the street.
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Vindris_SNH posted...

Find a way to be content with your career. Find a way to become interested in the tasks you do. Look at it as a challenge you're taking on. Push yourself to be the best at it, whatever it is. At the very least, understand that if you don't get up and go to work, you don't get money, and you'll be living on the street.

If you want to advance in the company, do not do your job the best. Your boss will think to keep you in the same position because you're so good at it, leading to little room for growth.

Instead, focus on making the processes better, capture more data, find a way to work smarter, not harder, to advance.
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Vindris_SNH posted...

Find a way to be content with your career. Find a way to become interested in the tasks you do. Look at it as a challenge you're taking on. Push yourself to be the best at it, whatever it is. At the very least, understand that if you don't get up and go to work, you don't get money, and you'll be living on the street.

ok dad
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green butter posted...

Vindris_SNH posted...

Find a way to be content with your career. Find a way to become interested in the tasks you do. Look at it as a challenge you're taking on. Push yourself to be the best at it, whatever it is. At the very least, understand that if you don't get up and go to work, you don't get money, and you'll be living on the street.

ok dad

You'll understand someday, son.
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krazychao5 posted...

Vindris_SNH posted...

Find a way to be content with your career. Find a way to become interested in the tasks you do. Look at it as a challenge you're taking on. Push yourself to be the best at it, whatever it is. At the very least, understand that if you don't get up and go to work, you don't get money, and you'll be living on the street.

If you want to advance in the company, do not do your job the best. Your boss will think to keep you in the same position because you're so good at it, leading to little room for growth.

Instead, focus on making the processes better, capture more data, find a way to work smarter, not harder, to advance.

Making the process better, capturing more data, and all the things you mentioned are all part of doing your job to the best of your ability, as I was saying.

Be honest and assess yourself and what you think you're worth to your employer. Ask that they pay you a wage that seems fair to you. If you don't think it's fair, start looking for another job that will pay you what you think you are worth. Be careful not to undervalue or overvalue yourself.
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TheoryzC posted...

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Vindris_SNH posted...

krazychao5 posted...

Vindris_SNH posted...

Find a way to be content with your career. Find a way to become interested in the tasks you do. Look at it as a challenge you're taking on. Push yourself to be the best at it, whatever it is. At the very least, understand that if you don't get up and go to work, you don't get money, and you'll be living on the street.

If you want to advance in the company, do not do your job the best. Your boss will think to keep you in the same position because you're so good at it, leading to little room for growth.

Instead, focus on making the processes better, capture more data, find a way to work smarter, not harder, to advance.

Making the process better, capturing more data, and all the things you mentioned are all part of doing your job to the best of your ability, as I was saying.

Be honest and assess yourself and what you think you're worth to your employer. Ask that they pay you a wage that seems fair to you. If you don't think it's fair, start looking for another job that will pay you what you think you are worth. Be careful not to undervalue or overvalue yourself.

Just making sure. a lot of people have the mentality of "I am my position" and that makes them be stuck at the same spot with the same work because they became so good at it, that they are "irreplaceable" and managers are reluctant to replace that person and move them up in the company
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