Working For A Living

[bodie]

I would love to have a private income which would enable me to do what i wanted and not have to work.  I am sure some of my time would be spent on my lazy ass,  but i am a curious person by nature and would no doubt get involved in a few things.

['andersom']

Good work? I love it. Bad work, takes me way too long to realise how devastating it is, because I am too loyal, and too much want to make something out of it.

Over the years I have found out that more than 20 hours a week very likely will get me sick. But also that I need something to do, outside my house, something that makes me participate in society.

I do not really care if it is a paid or non-paid job. As long as I have enough money to live on that is.

A good job gives me a sense of doing something for society, gives me a frame for the day, and, takes away the opportunity to completely hide in my own house and not seeing anyone.

[odeon]

I like my work and I am reasonably well paid for it. Beats unemployment.

['andersom']

I would love to have a private income which would enable me to do what i wanted and not have to work.  I am sure some of my time would be spent on my lazy ass,  but i am a curious person by nature and would no doubt get involved in a few things.

Were I to become financially completely secure for the rest of my life, I would still find something to do too.

["couldbecousin"]

To do what I need to do and pay my rent and feed myand cloth myself and look after my children, I NEED to work and as hard and well as i can.
My desire is to win the lottery nd be in a position I can live agood life without working.

 I am in a lottery pool at work.  Every week we buy tickets for whatever game has the
 biggest jackpot.  We all work hard, but if we won, we'd all be outta there! 

['andersom']

I won €5 this month. 

[midlifeaspie]

Love my job.  Love all the money.  Love that it allows me to make a comfortable life for my wife and two kids.  Love that I still have bigger and better things in front of me.  Love the respect ... and the fear 

[Parts]

I don't mind my work most of the time as it generally involves fixing or making something.  If I did come into a lot of money I would still work but more along the lines of my flea market job or restoring houses that I would own.  Sitting around is all well and good but it does get boring after awhile.

[Callaway]

The work that I'm doing now makes me feel needed, which is nice.  The money and professional respect is also nice, but if I was not needed, I wouldn't be doing this job.

[bucephalus]

Love my job.  Love all the money.  Love that it allows me to make a comfortable life for my wife and two kids.  Love that I still have bigger and better things in front of me.  Love the respect ... and the fear 

that's quite a refreshing attitude    My boss's boss asked me how i was finding my job so far.  I said "it's okay... shit is a strong word" i probably shouldn't have been so damn honest!

[edit] for callway.  i felt needed in my previous job, in the current one i'm a tiny part of the machine :S

[Pig]

If you have never tried it,  how do you know you wouldn't like it?

I think I would hate work because I hated school sooooo much.  It's been over a decade since I've even been to school, and I still hate it!  Authority figures, responsibilities, schedules, and most especially people simultaneously enrage and depress me.  When I was in school I couldn't decide who I wanted to kill more: others or myself!

Also, I have my own goals in life.  Goals that are very, very important to me.  Wasting my time doing something I don't care about seems like a cruelty even Lord Satan himself would admire.

Maybe I'm being a tad melodramatic.

[Callaway]

Love my job.  Love all the money.  Love that it allows me to make a comfortable life for my wife and two kids.  Love that I still have bigger and better things in front of me.  Love the respect ... and the fear 

that's quite a refreshing attitude    My boss's boss asked me how i was finding my job so far.  I said "it's okay... shit is a strong word" i probably shouldn't have been so damn honest!

[edit] for callway.  i felt needed in my previous job, in the current one i'm a tiny part of the machine :S

I'm glad you felt needed in your previous job, Bucephalus.  I don't like feeling like I'm a tiny interchangeable cog in a big machine.  What do you do now?

[Callaway]

If you have never tried it,  how do you know you wouldn't like it?

I think I would hate work because I hated school sooooo much.  It's been over a decade since I've even been to school, and I still hate it!  Authority figures, responsibilities, schedules, and most especially people simultaneously enrage and depress me.  When I was in school I couldn't decide who I wanted to kill more: others or myself!

Also, I have my own goals in life.  Goals that are very, very important to me.  Wasting my time doing something I don't care about seems like a cruelty even Lord Satan himself would admire.

Maybe I'm being a tad melodramatic.

You said that you were home-schooled after a certain point in your education?  Did you enjoy learning that way?  Was there a set curriculum, or were you more free to follow your own interests?

[Pig]

You said that you were home-schooled after a certain point in your education?  Did you enjoy learning that way?  Was there a set curriculum, or were you more free to follow your own interests?

Home school was definitely an improvement over public school.  I hated public school, I simply disliked home school.  There was a set curriculum at home, forced onto us by the umbrella school we used for government approval.  I even had to read the bible even though I'm an atheist. 

[bucephalus]

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I'm glad you felt needed in your previous job, Bucephalus.  I don't like feeling like I'm a tiny interchangeable cog in a big machine.  What do you do now?

i do customer service for a mobile phone company currently. i think i stress my self out by trying way too hard with the customer's, so i need to care a little bit less.  I used be a supervisor in a pizza place, i did that for 7 years; in that job, everyone was needed (or at least everyone that could half do their job)

what sort of thing do you do?