as long as the soda cans are red, white, and blue ones!!!!

[kaklimakankat]

so i'm conflicted over the fact that poor people in africa dying of aids can't get medication until they get watches

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how to live a successful life as a vagrant

[linneaah]

Think of a career as a means to an end, the end being personal fulfillment. One works because one wants to work harder, and one works harder because at some point that work will transform itself into the key to our own personal paradise. As desperately Communist as that sounds, it's true. If you are only working to work, not aspiring to something beyond yourself, then you'll have a shit career. Right now I work so that I can go to New Zealand, which at this point in time makes work (my blossoming career as a receptionist and personal assistant) the key to my kiwi-sex-filled paradise. I could easily work my way up the ladder, or towering spires of paper as you have described the situation, and find myself having spent all my energy on superficial financial gain. But what I love about financial gain is what it allows me to do. So... What I'm saying is... Don't work so that you can't see what it is that you're working for anymore. Think of it as learning to walk, and know that learning to walk is a necessary part of getting to New Zealand, but that doesn't mean you have to keep learning to walk or learning more advanced methods of walking. If at some point walking no longer brings you joy or leads you to it, take a flying leap into the Tasman and learn how to swim. Your career is your body of works, and clearly you consider your works your person, not just your breadwinner. Our 'careers' are only a stepping stone, and not meant to be seen as the ultimate destination. The real career to which we aspire is the fulfillment of our lives and dreams by any means possible.

In English, don't fret so much about being trapped in a career you haven't even started yet. If it sucks so much, you can always quit and become a carpenter.