tastyt wrote: » The secret is to have a job you dont hate, gives you plenty of time with friends and family and pays the bills. If you can find this your doing alright, a tiny percentage of people love what they do and it takes a lot of luck too. Just dont fall into the trap of being one of those people who waste their lives living for their job for a few hundred extra quid a month in their paycheque, bringing their work home, working 70/80 hours a week to try to climb some corporate ladder that just leads to even more stress and bull****. Live your own real life with the people who miss you when your not there, your only a number, easily replaced at work. Best advice I ever got, nobody lies on their deathbed wishing they had spent more days of their lives working in the office
timthumbni wrote: » Shorter working hours, only working 4 days per week. I know every working environment may differ but I certainly could do my 5 days work in 4 and possibly 3 even. Most people zone out on a Monday morning and Friday afternoon for example. Would it really hurt to go 4 days a week for example???
Danonino. wrote: » A four day working week would be my pick. 8 hours 5 days a week just.... uurrrgghh... it gets to ya. Money is essential but not everything, I would and have gladly taken a hit in pay to gain more free time, in saying that I have a lot of hobbies and pastimes that I can keep myself busy with. The dole, now that's a different beast altogether, a lot of posters don't really understand what a horrible pit the dole is. The examples that get thrown around are the extremes.
timthumbni wrote: » I agree with this poster 2 million percent..... in the end we are all just dirt. I just look at some in my work that are on the kiss arse treadmill for the bosses and think "you silly ****er"
Django99 wrote: » The amount of hours we work is steadily declining already. It would be a big jump to go from 5 days to 4 days. There would be a lot of lost productivity in a very short space of time. If for example, we dropped Friday from the working week, then Thursday afternoons would become a period when people zone out as you say. 100 years ago people worked far more hours than they do now. In 100 years people will work less. Unfortunately you were born whenever you were born, and you live at a time when 9-5 5 days a week is the norm. In your lifetime that may decrease even further, but there's not a whole lot you can do about it either way.
Solomon Pleasant wrote: » I'm a college student but this is something that has really been bothering me over the last year or so. When I graduate it'll probably be in some kind of office job (if I get a job) where I'll probably be working for some manager who I quite dislike but I'll probably become similar to over the next 40 years. Anyway, work your life away while the founder becomes rich and you earn a wage which is sufficient for survival but not really sufficient for growth and self actualisation. Perhaps this is just me being slightly anti capitalist as it seems to be the done thing. I view it as working your life away and I would imagine it could become my greatest regret. I'm still in college though, studying to gain one of these jobs so I do feel very hypocritical at times. 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.
Smurfette principle wrote: » lol not everyone who is good at their job does it to be a lickarse, as hard as it might be for you to understand a lot of people work hard because they enjoy what they do, Personally I think you are the silly ****er because you are on here bitching about a job you obviously hate but haven't got the balls to quit so would rather complain and put everyone else down just because they are happier in their job than you are. If all you want to do in your job is bare minimum than that's fair enough, it's no one else's business, but don't criticize others just because just because you can't be arsed to take your finger out of your hole and try improve your situation.
timthumbni wrote: » Aye the dole certainly isn't good. However I often think that the lower working class (which I would really probably fall under myself ) really gets shafted. If you take into account housing benefit (I'm from ni so not sure what you call it down south) and the costs associated with working (travel etc) then I probably have little more than someone on welfare. That is very depressing for me tbh.
Ubbquittious wrote: » Depends on where you lived and what you did. Some people worked far less and not just elite white horse riding types
timthumbni wrote: » Does anyone else think that working is one of the biggest cons ever pulled? Working 5/6 days a week in the year 2017 seems absurd to me. Also the fact that those on welfare seem to be better or as well off than those of us who actually are working makes no sense at all. We are here for a short time. I understand the need for money to live etc but do we really need to work Monday to Friday, 9 to 5 etc?
Patww79 wrote: » I'd actually have nothing I'd want to do if I didn't work (hence I do zero at the weekends), so at least work breaks the monotony.
SwD wrote: » As my grandmother used to say: Do what you love and you'll never work a day in your life. Find a job that gives you purpose.
ToddyDoody wrote: » I'm not do sure about this one. Statistics show that lottery winners who don't have to work are, in the long run, more likely to commit suicide than people who have lost a close family member. Having it easy with no conflicts at all is terrible for psychic health, believe it or not. It's a bit like letting a battery go out of date and die of its own accord where you're better off putting it in a circuit and letting the charge jump hoops through the system to make it work.
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donegaLroad wrote: » ok, so you get paid to come in every morning, build a wall, and at the end of the day knock it down again. Do this for 20 years and your employer will give you some money so you can change the car, go for a holiday once a year to get away from your meaningless job, and to be able to afford to pay for (or rent) your over-valued property which you spend little time in anyway because you are at work during the day. And this is not wasting your life?
