Working life

Worked 9 - 5.45 all my life, but when the recession kicked in I opted to work a 4 day week (which suited me fine for a few years until the company folded), now I do three days a week in the local Men's Shed and working on some pretty cool projects.....happy as Larry

Solomon Pleasant wrote: »

Anyway, work your life away while the founder becomes rich
Entrepreneurship is honestly the only viable solution that I can see as I don't see a life on social welfare as particularly fulfilling either.

The founder took risks to try and make it... Many try and many fail. Perhaps when you have a job you'll see that there's a trade off....... High risk high reward or high failure rate as a self employed "entrepreneur".... Or be an employee with less risk less reward and guaranteed wages in the bank every month. Owing your own business is no walk in the park despite what you may believe.

AidoEirE wrote: »

Work to live not live to work.

Do we live to work or work to live.

That is the question.

screamer wrote: »

The founder took risks to try and make it... Many try and many fail. Perhaps when you have a job you'll see that there's a trade off....... High risk high reward or high failure rate as a self employed "entrepreneur".... Or be an employee with less risk less reward and guaranteed wages in the bank every month. Owing your own business is no walk in the park despite what you may believe.

I think I'd feel better about myself trying to become an entrepreneur and failing, then never trying and never really knowing.

Yeah, making a business grow and succeed is an immense challenge and comes with a mountain of work. If it does work though..

Notwithstanding the question of living on welfare (or put another way, people living off the collective work of the rest of society) I find the notion of 'work' as a concept invented by capitalism/modern life as a rather absurd one. Humans have always had to scrabble around in the dirty to find sustenance and shelter, never mind the kind of luxuries we have today. There's no escaping the necessity of struggling for your existence (unless of course you are lucky enough to be born into a situation where you have enough capital accrued) so that just leaves the question of how our society organizes who does and doesn't work and how we arrange the kind of work that is to be done.

eeguy wrote: »

They are not mutually exclusive. If they were then everyone would quit their job once they made enough to live on.

I think its called Retirement.

AidoEirE wrote: »

I need cash to live, so if its a 39 hour week to do that and have everything paid im happy.

Its really about utilising your free time.

You can't complain about not living if you finish work and spend the evening chomping on caramel Freddos, watching Netflix.

eeguy wrote: »

Really? Why does Warren Buffet work, or Mark Zuckerberg?

Maybe they like their jobs. Plenty work on beyond retirement. Plenty are forced to retire against their wishes.

Maybe to them its not work. 'Work' in this threads sense is perceived as some unwanted chore.

eeguy wrote: »

Why are you committed to working a job you don't like? Why don't you do something you enjoy?

I firmly believe that people need a purpose, men especially. So many stories of men who withered away after retirement with no purpose left. That's what makes Men's shed such a great outlet. The happiest people I know are those who make or create things or solve problems.

I enjoy my college course but probably won't enjoy the job that will accompany it.

I agree with needing purpose, but how many people can say their job is their passion in life? That's why I have such an issue with so many mundane jobs and the mindset of get a job, pays taxes, retire and eventually die.