Apr 18, 2012 12:00
microsoft,
talking,
autism,
visualization,
computers,
work,
genetics,
programming,
patents,
marathon,
scotland,
thinking,
iceberg,
twitter,
life,
movies,
desert,
usa,
sports,
family,
homeopathy,
books,
comic,
disintermediation,
ui,
windows,
price,
epicwin,
publishing,
copyright,
water,
ocean,
links,
technology,
immune_system,
sexism,
cameras,
nature,
computer_games,
titanic,
funny,
apps,
video,
wind,
sanity,
neilgaiman,
development,
internet,
nokia,
ux,
stephen_king,
mobile_phones,
writing,
power,
mexico,
oil,
happiness
Also to keep in mind: by contributing to an office-culture of working long hours and having-no-life you are contributing to the disadvantage suffered by those who no option but to have an outside-the-office life (because management tend to feel that "works longer hours" means "is better at job" and that means that people unwilling/unable to work long hours are much less likely to get raises, promotions, or even jobs). Plus by doing the work of three people you are keeping two people out of a job (supposing people would be hired rather than the work going undone).
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I envy people who have jobs that they love and are happy spending time on...
I don't envy people who spend their whole lives at work though. I have too many hobbies to want to do that - I want to spend time running, and knitting, and playing at being in the 16th century.
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(I'm the kind of weirdo can't truly enjoy something unless I know I am good and getting better/trying my damnedest to get better. Well, maybe dancing... cos I know I'll never be much cop at that :-) )
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God if I believed that I think I'd just kill myself. Any ability to be pragmatic about my employment prospects depends entirely on my acceptance that, for most people, work and enjoyment are two separate things, and that's okay, it's just how it is.
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I didn't mean 'fun' - I meant 'enjoyment' in the sense that's closer to 'satisfaction'.
And it was all my own personal opinion/experience. *I* personally don't cope well with work when I don't have that.
Urgh, I am in a bloody strange mood at the moment, probaby best not to mind me too much.
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