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PaulMaster
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The best part of my job
#23396507 - 06/30/16 06:25 AM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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The best part of my job is that its easy and I can read stuff on the internet all day. I make sure to read something of substance every day I'm here - or, rather, I try to learn something of substance every day...podcasts/books on "tape" have been useful as well. I learned (am learning) how to grow shrooms - its going well so far! I've read a bunch of books on PDF, watched documentaries (when I work on Saturdays)...I study anything and everything from econ to philosophy to navigating DNM (which contains multiple subjects)...I avoid garbage such as main stream media outlets and social media stuff altogether.
My actual job takes up about an hour or so (at most) of accumulated energy expenditure each day. Its not fulfilling in any way and it doesnt pay very much, though I obviously get by alright. Plus, I work 12 hour days which means I get long weekends - alternating 3 and 4 day weekends every week.
I believe I've come to the conclusion that buying in and aiming for traditional success through career advancement is neither something I'm genuinely interested in nor something I expect to "achieve" in my life. I'm far more interested in unplugging entirely (which I'm not going to strive for) than I am in buying in at all (through degree attainment via tuition reimbursement, applying for higher positions at my company, job searching for a higher paying position or more responsibility etc).
Its taken me a long time to understand this about myself...or, rather, its taken a long time to accept this about myself enough to be open and honest about it. However, its the truth of who I am and who I've always been. Not to mention I do have meaningful, fulfilling outlets for my energy and creativity outside of work.
Anyone else not the least bit interested in buying in? Anyone else ignoring the noise to be good little workers?
Edited by PaulMaster (06/30/16 06:29 AM)
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Re: The best part of my job [Re: PaulMaster] 2
#23396514 - 06/30/16 06:29 AM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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You are striving to be the best slacker you can be.
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Re: The best part of my job [Re: Sun King]
#23396519 - 06/30/16 06:31 AM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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Sun King said: You are striving to be the best slacker you can be. 
lol at my desk, perhaps. I work very hard in the areas of my life that matter to me but totally slack off in areas I dont care for. I direct my energy consciously, mindfully, meaningfully.
For a long time I tried - I really, really tried - to give a fuck. But I was only lying to myself.
Edited by PaulMaster (06/30/16 06:34 AM)
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Re: The best part of my job [Re: PaulMaster]
#23396527 - 06/30/16 06:35 AM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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I like your honesty, kid. You want a job?
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Re: The best part of my job [Re: PaulMaster]
#23396537 - 06/30/16 06:41 AM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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I'm actually just going to college in September at 26 years old. I don't want to buy in to anything either but I do want to pursue what I'm interested in and that's the only real way to do so.
I've worked shitty jobs for 12 years now and I'm ready to get into something that will make me want to get out of bed every morning. If you're happy with what you're doing, well that's good, but that might change as you get older. 12 years isn't even a long time, people don't end up changing careers until their 40s and 50s sometimes. It also might not change and you'll be happy doing you well into retirement. If so, that's cool too!
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Re: The best part of my job [Re: Sun King]
#23396542 - 06/30/16 06:42 AM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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Sun King said: I like your honesty, kid. You want a job?
There are situations I'd trade my current arrangement for. I'll listen to any offer, but I'm much more interested in not having a job.
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Midnight_Toker said: I'm actually just going to college in September at 26 years old. I don't want to buy in to anything either but I do want to pursue what I'm interested in and that's the only real way to do so.
I've worked shitty jobs for 12 years now and I'm ready to get into something that will make me want to get out of bed every morning. If you're happy with what you're doing, well that's good, but that might change as you get older. 12 years isn't even a long time, people don't end up changing careers until their 40s and 50s sometimes. It also might not change and you'll be happy doing you well into retirement. If so, that's cool too!
Its not so much that I'm happy with what I'm doing as it is that since I have to trade the hours of my life for a little change, I have found a way to pursue excellence at the same time. I'm happy with what I'm doing in that it affords me the ability to pursue things that do have meaning for me.
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Re: The best part of my job [Re: PaulMaster]
#23396579 - 06/30/16 06:57 AM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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I'll add it to my list - thank you very much!
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Re: The best part of my job [Re: PaulMaster]
#23396610 - 06/30/16 07:12 AM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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Most of the tension and heart-ache I've experienced in my life have been the result of my trying to conform to the noise - to the standards of my culture...to someone else's standards/values.
I'm lucky to have escaped...to have never been assimilated. I've often looked back upon my childhood as awkward and painful in certain ways because I was a bit of an outcast from a broken home. But now I see that I'm lucky to have avoided the potential brainwashing - though, I honestly ask myself if I could have ever really been sold, if I could have ever, under any circumstances, been conditioned to believe in the things I'm turning away from nowadays. Maybe early life success through assimilation would have fostered an entirely different outlook.
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Re: The best part of my job [Re: PaulMaster]
#23396669 - 06/30/16 07:39 AM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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I think the best part of my job is the fact that I can take tincture and get baked and it's so discreet that no one could ever tell
Well that plus the free food and coffee
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OhMrJohnson said: I think the best part of my job is the fact that I can take tincture and get baked and it's so discreet that no one could ever tell
Well that plus the free food and coffee
I've blazed on the clock many times - though its only on the Saturdays I work because nobody is here but me and a few other people scattered throughout the building. It would be awesome if there was free food here too!
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Re: The best part of my job [Re: PaulMaster] 1
#23396708 - 06/30/16 07:52 AM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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For the most part, a job is a necessity.
Why spend those 40 hours a week slacking off, when you could be pursuing excellence in that area as well.
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Re: The best part of my job [Re: badchad]
#23396724 - 06/30/16 07:57 AM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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badchad said: For the most part, a job is a necessity.
Why spend those 40 hours a week slacking off, when you could be pursuing excellence in that area as well.
My answer is that I'm directing that pursuit of excellence in another direction because there is no such pursuit in my work. My duties wouldn't challenge a reasonably smart child. I've attained the required mastery and I do a great job at the things they pay me to do, though that isn't really saying much. I might as well brag about being able to drink from a cup.
Like I said, I spend these hours educating myself on tons of topics - I actually love that aspect of my job, though its a sort of a side effect or something...but the hours of my days are not wasted.
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Re: The best part of my job [Re: PaulMaster]
#23396744 - 06/30/16 08:07 AM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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Hope you use a standing desk. Sitting for that much out of a day is really bad for you.
Cool gig though. You should extend a lot of that free time into obtaining technical certifications and educational stuff you can get online.
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Re: The best part of my job [Re: PatrickKn]
#23396763 - 06/30/16 08:16 AM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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PatrickKn said: Hope you use a standing desk. Sitting for that much out of a day is really bad for you.
Cool gig though. You should extend a lot of that free time into obtaining technical certifications and educational stuff you can get online.
No joke about the sitting! I get up to wander around and get a little stretch about once an hour.
The closest I get to certifying myself in anything is free online courses such as Khan University or the free Yale courses on Youtube.
Certifications are an investment in the wrong direction, if you ask me.
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Re: The best part of my job [Re: PaulMaster]
#23397009 - 06/30/16 10:24 AM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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2k a month for 30 hours of work and 130 hours of internet.. sign me up.
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