Why do you work?

Solnskaya

What gets you up in the morning? Fear?, Love of what you do?, necessity?,the mortgage? Is it what you hoped to do? What would you do if you could change career now, knowing what you now know? Would you change anything?

For me, I have no idea what I do for a living, literally. My job description seems to change daily, which I like, and I work to see what will happen. I've had crap jobs aplenty just to pay the bills, but not for a fair while now, thank God, so whats your gig, and why?

Asphyxia

*I love it and it makes me happy
*To earn moneys
*Not to be bored

Captain_Generic

"I am required to kill, so I kill. That is enough."

bonerm

Because I want to fit in.

Say, do you like Huey Lewis and the News?

im invisible

...i dont

Solnskaya

Asphyxia wrote: »

*I love it and it makes me happy
*To earn moneys
*Not to be bored

Yeah, but whats your GIG??? WTF do you do that makes you happy?:D

mahamageehad

i'm a student....







i dont get up in the mornings lol

Geansai Rua

Im a student too..

I work to save up for the inevitable emigration when i finish.


Hate work

Captain_Generic

mahamageehad wrote: »

i'm a student....







i dont get up in the mornings lol

LOLZERS:D:D:D:D




Good luck getting a job

jd007

Money

sh1tstirrer

Solnskaya wrote: »

What gets you up in the morning?

My legs.

Solnskaya

sh1tstirrer wrote: »

My legs.

You know she hates it when you call her that. She does have fyne legs tho.

Yakult

Who needs work when you can get €186 a week for scratching your balls!! Also known as, the dole.

mikemac

So I can pay taxes to get these students their grants. Known as beer money to them

Yakult wrote: »

Who needs work when you can get €186 a week for scratching your balls!! Also known as, the dole.

188, don't forget the two euro!

Solnskaya

im invisible wrote: »

...i dont

I wouldn't either if I was invisible.

Captain_Generic

Yakult wrote: »

Who needs work when you can get €186 a week for scratching your balls!!

Someone has to do it

Solnskaya

Yakult wrote: »

Who needs work when you can get €186 a week for scratching your balls!! Also known as, the dole.

Yeah, but wtf can you do with 186 a week? Would it not get dull?

ScumLord

This should answer most of your questions.

I need the money and my life would be terribly boring if I didn't work.

celticbhoy27

money to pay my mortgage, simples! i hate my fcking job:mad:

savina10

Worst work experiences over 20 years of working:

when I was younger...
helping a man get into a bath and placing his fake leg nearby so he could get out

removing a man from a restaurant for w**king

serving a woman dinner on a tray to her room and she dropped her towel to take the tray

12 hour shifts on an assembly line - brain freeze

modern day...

Good salary but feeling anxious and depressed on pay day. Giving 50% of earnings back to the state. No holidays in years.Feeling robbed. Hating the responsibility. Wishing I was a student again. Nothing to aspire to anymore. What now? Missing going out on 20 quid, getting hammered with friends on the beach. Middle age no fun Being a student again and sleeping in would be like winning the lottery.Simplicity of books and essays. Aaaaaw bliss.

Solnskaya

celticbhoy27 wrote: »

money to pay my mortgage, simples! i hate my fcking job:mad:

Why? What do you do thats so shyte? Why don't you quit then?

mahamageehad

Yakult wrote: »

Who needs work when you can get €186 a week for scratching your balls!! Also known as, the dole.

Jeez man dont forget that extra 2€ thats 2 litres of wine here!!! :eek:

Captain_Generic

savina10 wrote: »

serving a woman dinner on a tray to her room and she dropped her towel to take the tray

I want that job, "Would you like sex with that?" I'd say :cool:


"No, and stop calling my room" she'd say....

Freddie59

I work to live - I don't live to work.

starbelgrade

I work for the craic.

It's mighty.

Bog

Freddie59 wrote: »

I work to live - I don't live to work.

You keep telling youself that...

Solnskaya

Freddie59 wrote: »

I work to live - I don't live to work.

Would you die if you didn't work? Jasus, thats rough. Ya poor sod.

LaHaine

Why work? I need something to complain about

epgc3fyqirnbsx

I'm just trying to get a job where I work in town and wear a nice suit and go for power lunches.
I look good in a suit. Really good.

Voodoomelon

I work over 50 hours a week in two jobs and a have maybe a slightly above average salary, but only because I work so friggin much. I'm tired of being tired all the time. Tired of paying so much tax, tired of working so much to save for stupid ****e that I don't really need.

If only this country had nice weather, it would make work so much less a chore.

sdanseo

I don't work, I'm a lazy scumbag and I sit on the dole and basically let everyone else work their arse off to pay their mortgage AND buy me food and clothes.

Oh no wait, that's scumbags.

I work for moneyz. That's the way of it.

Captain_Generic

Viviana Bumpy Advisor wrote: »

I'm just trying to get a job where I work in town and wear a nice suit and go for power lunches.

Whats the difference between a power lunch and a normal lunch? Is it like a speed turd?

Yakult

Solnskaya wrote: »

Yeah, but wtf can you do with 186 a week? Would it not get dull?

Drugs and alcohol I shuppose!


generalised opinion

evillive

love my job and use the money i am paid to pay the bills which gives me the opportunity to enjoy my personal life and go on holiday once a year and hang out with family and friends until the paycheck runs out - prob sounds sad to all those 'kewl' students posting

my job is in the public service working with insane (i'm serious) amounts of council tenants every day (i know the most of you will laugh but its true - a lot of us actually do stuff) no 2 days are the same and its a lot of problem solving and challenges,

and i love the fact that despite all the pay cuts, job restrictions, abuse from the private sector, abuse from the public sector, abuse from the media, that no-one has been able to take the enjoyment i get out of my work away from me or ever will until i decide so - i control my happiness, no-one else

Horse_box

sdonn wrote: »

I don't work, I'm a lazy scumbag and I sit on the dole and basically let everyone else work their arse off to pay their mortgage AND buy me food and clothes.

Oh no wait, that's scumbags.

Or good hardworking honest people who have been let go

Solnskaya

sdonn wrote: »

I don't work, I'm a lazy scumbag and I sit on the dole and basically let everyone else work their arse off to pay their mortgage AND buy me food and clothes.

Oh no wait, that's scumbags.

I work for moneyz. That's the way of it.

Oh no its not. If you just wanted money, there's a lot easier ways of getting it than working, so why do you work?

epgc3fyqirnbsx

Captain_Generic wrote: »

Whats the difference between a power lunch and a normal lunch? Is it like a speed turd?

A power lunch is what you have when you are a master of th universe in a flash suit.
Similarly you don't "nap", you have a power kip.

We're a generation who idolised He-Man

Capt'n Midnight

I owe, I owe, it's off to work I go ...

thenightrider

Yakult wrote: »

Who needs work when you can get €186 a week for scratching your balls!! Also known as, the dole.

Not every one gets the full amount on the dole im on the dole have a morgage and a child and i get 4 euro a week from the dole as my girlfriend is working sure it costs me almost that just to get to the post office and if i dont pick it up it would just mess up my stamps etc

So not everyone that is out of work is just siting around geting free money as alot of people think people that go by the book seem to get sweet f**k all

Captain_Generic

Viviana Bumpy Advisor wrote: »

A power lunch is what you have when you are a master of th universe in a flash suit.
Similarly you don't "nap", you have a power kip.

We're a generation who idolised He-Man

Right. Power turds. Got it.

starbelgrade

evillive wrote: »

and i love the fact that despite all the pay cuts, job restrictions, abuse from the private sector, abuse from the public sector, abuse from the media, that no-one has been able to take the enjoyment i get out of my work away from me or ever will until i decide so - i control my happiness, no-one else

Cushy public sector job. No wonder you're happy out.

Solnskaya

a power lunch is when a bunch of tossers get together to eat on the tab of the biggest tosser. A tossfest.

Solnskaya

starbelgrade wrote: »

Cushy public sector job. No wonder you're happy out.

I didn't know you were in the public sector star. I'm surprised. Also surprised you would be envious for more than even a second.

mahamageehad

Solnskaya wrote: »

I didn't know you were in the public sector star. I'm surprised. Also surprised you would be envious for more than even a second.

I think the smily face indicates joking....

epgc3fyqirnbsx

Solnskaya wrote: »

a power lunch is when a bunch of tossers get together to eat on the tab of the biggest tosser. A tossfest.

ah, soggy biscuit, good times

Solnskaya

mahamageehad wrote: »

I think the smily face indicates joking....

Phew. That was close, my illusions were nearly shattered there. I had Starbelgrade down as the evil overlord stroking a white cat on an island type.

Solnskaya

Viviana Bumpy Advisor wrote: »

ah, soggy biscuit, good times

Don't tell me yea played that game too?

epgc3fyqirnbsx

Solnskaya wrote: »

Don't tell me yea played that game too?

Just when Faichra is around, guy is a riot!

bigmouth writes again

even in the current climate i'm still embarrassed not to have a job or trade tbh.

don't go taking pride in not working. if you must, you'd better be doing something more productive in your own time than the mind-numbing wastefulness that tends to be 'work' for most

like typing on boards wheee..

Solnskaya

Gotta love the dole bludgers and eternal students posting in a thread called "why do you work", probably about time for someone to start a "why don't you work" thread, along the lines of the money threads doing the rounds. Anybody actually work anymore? I kinda thought I was pushing the bus on my own, maybe I'm right.