23-09-2023, 04:19 PM
(This post was last modified: 23-09-2023, 04:23 PM by Oh_hunnihunni.)
I think it is a form of mental illness in some cases. Driven being a symptom. If your career is your baby then what happened to the actual...
Besides, what would happen if everyone spent their whole lives climbing that slippery pole, and got there, the way so many advocate?
Creak, creak, snap, Timberrrrrrrrrrrr!
Delusional...
Hang on though, when work is something like that, is it still work? Reminds me of the time someone challenged me to add up what the real price of a bit of my strange stuff was - at that price no one could afford to buy it...
It wasn't work either. Any more than gardening is for me.
Besides, what would happen if everyone spent their whole lives climbing that slippery pole, and got there, the way so many advocate?
Creak, creak, snap, Timberrrrrrrrrrrr!
Delusional...
(23-09-2023, 02:53 PM)Zurdo Wrote: There also needs to be a desire to be this person who works hard and reaps the reward, climbing to the top of the success ladder. I guess I'm one of them - oh I got the highest qualifications for my trade, owned my own business, but I have never run after money, or position. I have flipped through a lot of jobs, always for experience, never for the money or promotion. Through overtime, shifts or bonus schemes I've doubled my 40 hr income, I'm not a lazy no hoper, just someone happy with what they do and a modest income covers all my needs.
But I'm still working a 40 hour week at 70. Actually I'm living the dream, I have a real job where I do real work and am the only reason the business if still running. I know what sort of jobs guys my age get - the old fulla, sweeps the floor, does errands etc. My boss fits the work hard and get rich model - he can't stop working to make money. It's sad he can't see it has ruined his life, he has enough to retire and enjoy a fun life, but he is so driven...he just keeps trying to make the money.
A glimpse of my working life, a couple of things I was fixing a few weeks ago.
Hang on though, when work is something like that, is it still work? Reminds me of the time someone challenged me to add up what the real price of a bit of my strange stuff was - at that price no one could afford to buy it...
It wasn't work either. Any more than gardening is for me.