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Mixomatosis
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Unemployment..
#2236083 - 01/12/04 01:01 AM (20 years, 2 months ago) |
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.. ye gotta dig it. I can't imagine the pain that would be life working year 'round multiple times a week. People with jobs.. what's with that? To all you people working for money: WAKE UP!!
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Positronius
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unemployed, young urban males are the most politically volatile demographic.
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Mixomatosis
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sweet!
or should I say
sweat!
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Mixomatosis
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Seriously though, the way I've arranged my money-acquisition gives me many many months every year where I don't work at all. As Pos's little fact shows, being in this state can have a profound effect on the human mind. I suggest you all give doing "nothing" a try some time. It's weird, and if you can't manage it, it can be very unhealthy. Strange eh? Just hanging out with ample resources with which to feed, clothe and shelter yourself and what do you become? Volatile, unsatisfied. Busy yourself, and boom,
"Busy bees never cry"
-Jack Stewheart
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tekramrepus
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Quote:
Mixomatosis said: .. ye gotta dig it. I can't imagine the pain that would be life working year 'round multiple times a week. People with jobs.. what's with that? To all you people working for money: WAKE UP!!
Although I see your point, and can fully grasp it, I must say in my opinion there is fault there.
Throughout history, mankind has always had to work. Working is the only way to achievement, and without some form of work - a man cannot sustain himself unless he has others doing work for him (slavery, or otherwise).
I ask you, do you not have to cook your own food, or dress yourself, or do daily tasks? This in itself is work.
I also dislike the 8 hour work days, especially since my physical condition is rather ill right now.
I believe there are a few keys to working, in which work no longer becomes "UGH, WORK" but rather a pleasant duty that needs to be done.
For one, I don't believe in working subordinate to anyone. Although I currently do, it is a goal of mine to get passed this. I believe whole heartedly in either learning a trade that you can do yourself, or working in cooperation with others.
Secondly, I believe the work you do should be honest, always. Working for greedy corporations, or fast food enterprises, or places of dishonest trades can only bring negativity into one's life, or atleast only into my life anyway.
To work a trade that you respect, and others respect - and that takes a certain know how should calm your mind , and make you feel less disinterested in your job.
Some other factors to keep in mind are a job that isn't too strenuous, yet challenges you, physically, mentally, or both. Creativity is a wonderful form of expression that you can utilize in your job.
Let me know what you think.
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silversoul7
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I'm damn near broke and I'm not enough of a risk-taker to sell drugs, so I'm not too happy with being unemployed right now.
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Mixomatosis
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Throughout history, mankind has always had to work. Working is the only way to achievement, and without some form of work - a man cannot sustain himself unless he has others doing work for him (slavery, or otherwise).
Oh I agree, working's good, I love it. I basically feel the same way you do about working for other people and all that. I'm not saying the whole WAKE UP thing with seriousness. However, there is a plague. It's called the "unhappily employed" virus. Some symptoms include working at a job you don't like, but more commonly, and more dangerously, people infected end up working because they can't stand being unemployed. I know a guy who works seasonally like me, and instead of taking advantage of his eligibility for employment insurance when winter hits and he's layed off, he gets a job that pays a little more, just 'cause he can't stand not working.
Nasty. Facing the void of having every option completely open to me ever since high school ended has been interesting. Years of hanging around, sometimes pacing back and forth, trying to get other stuff going.. I probably wouldn't feel that life is meaningless if I didn't choose this lifestyle. Not that I think life being meaningless (whatever I mean by that) is a bad thing or I'm depressed.. It's just that unemployment has altered the way I see the world.
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Positronius
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why dont you take a course your local university?
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Frog
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I love my job. I would work for free if someone would support me. I am a bad businessman. But if I could just be a bad businessman, and if someone would let me pursue my job as a hobby, I would be fine.
I have to learn to be a better businessman.
-------------------- The day will come when, after harnessing the ether, the winds, the tides, gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And, on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire. -Teilard
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Mixomatosis
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Honestly, I would have gone to university twice, but the whole application process was too confusing to me. The second time I resolved to apply I didn't know my student number and I was like "meh"
This is what my lifestyle has done to me.
Oh, also, the thing about university is that people who go to university are.. I don't know .. intellectually empowered mindless twats? Yeah.. something like that. I suggest rising above the robotic habits thrust upon you by the big machine.
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Positronius
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then why dont you volunteer with immigration canada and be a friend to someone who has just emigrated?
great way to meat hot slavic chicks.
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Mixomatosis
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I would work for free if someone would support me.
um... that doesn't sound like working for free
Pos: how do you know I'm Canadian? It's like.. I don't know.. like you are psychic!
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Positronius
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well, I inferred that "beesee" meant, BC, as in BC, Canada.
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Mixomatosis
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Ah.. you scried it.
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EvilGir
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Without work how else would you buy your fav psychedelics or learn ne stuff. Sat on your ass all day dosent get you anywhere, except brain rot from watching too much daytime tv.
-------------------- Fighting the man the best way I can.
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Mixomatosis
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Re: Unemployment.. [Re: EvilGir]
#2236369 - 01/12/04 02:24 AM (20 years, 2 months ago) |
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I don't own a TV or a computer (at least not right now)
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Mixomatosis
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Re: Unemployment.. [Re: EvilGir]
#2236374 - 01/12/04 02:24 AM (20 years, 2 months ago) |
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that is to say.. I never own a TV, and for the last few months and for the future long while I don't own a computer
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EvilGir
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But yes i dont like work, its hard enough just to get up to go uni, but its something that has to be done. I only ever work when I absalutly have to and have no choice.
-------------------- Fighting the man the best way I can.
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