Concerning Lethargy

[bowlich]

In graduating from college, I had one worry that overshadowed the rest. Employment I could find. People have found work throughout the ages and the modern world is unable to let its citizens starve. I need not concern myself with survival. Hence, the greatest concern is not one of fulfilling the base needs but in fulfilling the existential needs:

Comments

[dragnl0rd]

The cycle created by working, relaxing, and then sleeping isn't necessarily a monotonouos one. Also, while working isn't required to relax and sleep, it can improve the activities and locations in which one relaxes and sleeps. For example. Spending 8 hours of my day earning money by solving someone else's problems allows me to relax by playing video games and reading new and interesting books, and allows me to sleep with a roof over my head.

Regarding your comment of the master keeping the journeyman as an apprentice... if the apprentice was truly worthy of becoming a journeyman, he wouldn't have to be told. He would find out what it is that he doesn't know, and learn it (if not from the current master, than from a different master). It is not skill but ambition that separates the journeyman from the apprentice.

People that have jobs and spend them waiting for the weekend are the 'perpetual apprentices' and could improve their lives simply by figuring out what they want to do with their lives. In essence, it is not the system that keeps people down, but the willingness to settle that prevents people from rising up to the pinnacles of achievement they should be able to reach.

Think about this the next time you think your job sucks.