this post has been edited on february 24, 2005 16:20
so i went a little haywire yesterday. i'm going to continue my anti-work rantings today i think. i mean... how can you not rant against work? it's awful. this is the system:while you are young, right when you are getting smart enough to make good decisions but are still young enough to make fun decisions, you are thrown into the real world.
you have to pay bills and shit. so you gotta get a job. jobs are the devil. you go to work, work 8-9 hours doing something you don't love but you can handle to get the bills paid, and that's if you are lucky. god forbid you don't like your job. anyways, you are still spending 8-9 hours doing _something_, which is about 4-5 hours more than you'd want to do if you were motivated and 8-9 hours more than you'd want to do you weren't motivated. its a life-draining experience to say the least.
one or two days of this would be doable. i could even handle 4 days of this. but no, 5 days a week for the rest of your life until you're old or dead.
i mean...
c'mon. this is the best you can do, advanced society? capitalism and work your subjects into the ground?
ok well i'm being a bit extreme. there are a few jobs i could bring energy and enthusiasm to every day, my current job not being one of them. not saying i hate my job here at monster - i like it fine - but it could be better i guess. i could be a baseball gm. or... a student. god. or a freelance web design/developer guy that didn't have to work a standard schedule. that would be most ideal and plausible.
obviously i'm young and i have a lot of life in front of me. i just hope that at some point during this life in front of me i will be able to go on a drive in the summer past midnight on a weekday and look at the stars, or hang out with some buddies and watch monday night football and not care about going to bed on time so i can get to work on tuesday on time.
and i hope these scenarios don't require pto days and forms and out of office auto-replies.
but they probably will.
re: life is too short
its not that we have to work. its not that we should start young if we really want to be a success. its not even what i do personally, that bothers me about the working world.
its the amount of time consumed.
i love work. i love making money. i love acomplishing tasks, impressing people...i'm a shameless sycophant. but to have to work 50 out of the 85 waking hours in a work week? that's too much. that's too much life spent doing something other than living.
the example niv gave really hit a nerve with me. when i think of how much life i'm wasting the first example that comes to mind is exactly what he mentioned: those summer nights in high school and college, driving around with all the windows open, or the top down, well into the morning, trying to find dark places to look at the stars or watch meteor showers.
that's the kind of thing that makes life seem long, and worth living. not 10 hour days and 50 hour weeks, where every day is the same and years pass by in a flash. what kind of life is that?