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Thanks, and by great price, I meant great price for us.here.from.day.1 wrote: »Good to your feeling better with it.
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I don't think anyone can ever be truely happy, some are less happy than others. However, when I think of all the car / train / bus journies made by people everyday to places like Navan and Portlaoise etc, it would depress me. All because of a job and sometimes the only job they can get that. That's not living. I'm a big believer that you shouldn't live any more than a half an hour from your job. Otherwise it's time to get a new one or mve closer to your job. I'd slit my wrists if I had to commute 2-4 hours a day. I live in Ranelagh and at present between luas / walk, it takes me 20 minutes to get to work. Sweet. As much as work can be soul destroying, not being able to get home quick enough (after a long days work) would be even worse.
BTW getting up at 8am for the next 40yrs of my life scares me, but then again if I was doing it for myself I'd never get up 0 -
I teach senior infants. I have a small class of boys from all over the world. It's a privilege to know them and I love them all to bits. They have me laughing over something everyday. Making a difference is fulfilling to me. I get to do things I enjoy like art and music and games all day. I get a real kick out of seeing them apply something I've taught them or improving in reading or writing. I have an SNA in the class that I get on great with, a laid back boss and fab colleagues.
The days fly by. I get into school about 8.30. I finish teaching at 1pm and leave between 2.30 and 3.30. I get to be my own boss, it's a bit hectic and stressful but I like the challenge. Pay is great and I reckon with all the summer holidays I can visit every continent and see the world in about 5 years.
I teach in the city centre so when I come out of school I can get all I need taken care of at the end of the day. I'm a 15 minute bus journey away, it's really handy. I love my job so much, I can't believe I get paid to do it. If I won the lotto I wouldn't quit
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Lil Kitten wrote: »I teach senior infants. I have a small class of boys from all over the world. It's a privilege to know them and I love them all to bits. They have me laughing over something everyday. Making a difference is fulfilling to me. I get to do things I enjoy like art and music and games all day. I get a real kick out of seeing them apply something I've taught them or improving in reading or writing. I have an SNA in the class that I get on great with, a laid back boss and fab colleagues.
The days fly by. I get into school about 8.30. I finish teaching at 1pm and leave between 2.30 and 3.30. I get to be my own boss, it's a bit hectic and stressful but I like the challenge. Pay is great and I reckon with all the summer holidays I can visit every continent and see the world in about 5 years.
I teach in the city centre so when I come out of school I can get all I need taken care of at the end of the day. I'm a 15 minute bus journey away, it's really handy. I love my job so much, I can't believe I get paid to do it. If I won the lotto I wouldn't quit
Thats wonderful for you.:)0 -
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FuzzyLogic wrote: »Are you genuinely happy in your work right now? Great, this probably isn't for you so, congrats, enjoy your hapiness
Maybe you love your job, but this is for the Dublin Office commuters who aren't fulfilled by their work:
This is something that I've been wondering about a lot lately.
When you were growing up, did you ever imagine that you would sell yourself to some company from 9 until 5, 5 days out of 7? For 40 years out of the 50 years of adulthood that nature has given you? That they would effectively own you during those hours. And that its really more than that as well. You have to get up at 7/8 or whatever, and moreso have to go to bed early to be able to get up. So effectively they own you from 11PM to 6/7PM whenever you get home. And you get transport to work with other people in an electric or petrol burning metal transport box. And the same after your work, every single working day.
Did you ever imagine that you would be given a quota of days that you could be sick from work or been told how long you can spend eating your pathetic daily sandwich that someone else (in the same situation) made for you?
Did you ever think that you'd be told by someone (boss) that you're only allowed take 3 weeks out of 52 off work per year. Does this feel like a social prison of sorts to anybody else?
Come 11PM, you're tired from working and go to bed because you have to be up soon and are weary from your day of doing work for somebody else.
You have to wear the same type of clothes for the office every day.
If its raining, you wear a coat and walk through puddles with everybody else rushing from the dart station.
Lunch, and a measly coffee/cigarette break are the main excitements of the day.
Stress is the order of the day, rushing from place to place, trying to get home to your identical concrete living box, sandwiched in between 100s and further out 1000s of other boxes. Perhaps you're lucky enough to have one side of your box not attached to another one, and your house is a mirror of the one next door, not exactly the same! Lucky you...
Perhaps your metal transport box looks nicer or moves you about a little smoother or more comfortably than your neighbour. Lucky you!
Maybe your moving pictures box in your commuter storage box's "living room" is bigger or flatter than anyone you know! wow!
But did you ever think that you don't need to be working like this?
Most people tolerate their jobs, and get on with it because they need to pay the bills and because its the norm. Its the respectable thing to do. Work, earn money, buy food, buy services, buy "stuff" and go home, enjoy the spoils for the 5% of your life that you're not working or thinking about work or preparing or recovering from work.
Is all this work and wasting of lives in industry, sales, office work, etc etc worth it?
We should be out enjoying ourselves all the time, spending just enough time at work to earn money to buy basic food/shelter and pay for entertainment and your kids' same. The rest of our time I believe that we should spend doing whatever we *really* want to do.
See you on the water.
Good post.
Well written.FuzzyLogic wrote: »Saw a guy on the dart today run onto the train, saw that there were no seats, swore loudly, rushed to an end door, slammed it open on top of a kid who had sat beside it, and then swore again and rushed through.
All just to get a seat for a 20 min train journey.
Yesterday, a very heavily pregnant woman got on and walked to the end. She was obviously in distress, barely able to stand up, sweat pumping out of her. I was standing, but I saw absolutely everybody eyeball her and then immediately become completely engrossed in their papers, ipods, phones and books.
Sickening like.
Yeah sometimes i think to myself everyone nowadays deep down is just a self-serving a$$hole.
Another poster here said most people are unhappy in their jobs and you just gotta get on with it.
I always find it curious that most people ARE unhappy in their jobs- wouldn't that just mean most people make bad decisions when it comes to careers.
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Jeremiah 16:1 wrote: »:pac:Good post, Fuzzy, I've often thought much the same things.
But isn't doing something you really like is just as pointless as doing some drudge work to pay the bills?
Say, a person drops out of doing a well paid job they dislike, and they are having a wonderful time earning a bare living from being an author. All that boils down to is good feelings due to the release of feel good hormones. Which is equally as pointless as some drudge getting their satisfaction from buying sh't they don't need doing a job they hate.
In summary, everything is pointless. As is posting on this thread, posting on this website and reading posts like this that you don't need to read.:):pac:
Nihilism FTW.
Woohoo. 0 -
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I moved to France 10 years ago. People here voted to get paid less money but to have more time off. So I earn a lot less than the average Irish telecom engineer but I do have 11 weeks paid holidays per year.
I work in an office but wear what I like.
As a 'cadre' I set my own hours. I can work 10 hours per week or 50 as long as the work gets done.
I walk 35 minutes home from work through Paris every evening.
Life is good
Sounds good man.
It's the age-old thing, isn't it:
feeling in control is probably what constitutes a lot of what we term happiness.
And in your job you seem to have a fair amount of that. 0
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