Your work situation (8 Viewers)

[Reets]

I actually like this job for once. I’m properly working for the Man and that’s a genuine struggle for me, but I know I’m doing good. Scared shitless about what I’ll be stuck doing once my promotion comes in, but I’ll deal with it when it does.

 

[ann post]

So my question is this -
If you had somewhere to live (own bedroom, not crowded etc.) and 232 euro p.w. plus other dole benefits, then what would be the attraction of having a job?
What makes you spend so much of yer life working?
e.g. I am sure some of you are in bands and I am talentless.

One of my inlaws always says 'well you need somewhere to go in the morning'.

I have the choice though. I could never work again and just be on disability and have somewhere to live, but I'd rather be doing stuff while i can. There's enough periodical reward from what i do and if there wasn't, it's funded a bike i really like, a few cycling trips i've really enjoyed and as @egg_ already laid out, If you are interested in partnering up with someone having a job does count for a lot.

 

[seanc]

Yeah. Nothing is worth that amount of my time. Best thing about not having a job is I don't have to be around other people unless I want to be.

I worked on a pig farm aged 14-17 (1990 - September 1993).
I got paid nothing for a few weekends work I did in spring 1990. My father got me and my younger brother the job and should have made sure we got paid.
As a summer job I got paid £50 a week in 1990-92.
From May 1993 to September 1993, I full time was paid £75 p.w. which was £112 before tax.

I worked with an artist / interior design guy from September 1993 - summer 1995. So I was mostly sanding wood and cleaning the place. Other than all dust it was not bad.
I got £40 p.w. dole money was about £60 at the time but I wasn't entitled to dole as I hadn't paid tax working for 6 months straight.

I had £1368 in my P.O. account in August 1992 before I got interested in buying records.
I felt like I was wasting my time for money I didn't need. Those jobs don't effect me now but caused me a lot problems at the time. I volunteered to work on the piggery in 1990 but was given no choice after that.

What you got paid 30 years ago doesn't really matter much does it?
You've clearly set yourself up to live with what you've got. And fair play. But money isn't your motivation.

As a thought, what if you were paid to be a sports historian or something? Would the responsibility ruin the enjoyment?

 

[pete]

People have set up successful (read:money making) YouTube channels on far far less interesting topics.

 

[Deadmanposting]

If you had somewhere to live (own bedroom, not crowded etc.) and 232 euro p.w. plus other dole benefits, then what would be the attraction of having a job?
What makes you spend so much of yer life working?

The major attraction of having a job is the neverending supply of money. To do the things I want to do in life, 200 quid a week won't cut it. Nowhere close.
Every week for the past 14 years, a deposit for more money than I ever thought I would make is dropped into my account. They have never missed once.
I resent the time I have to give work, but I have mostly made my peace with it.
I don't need to be rich - I know what my 'enough' is. But i do need that cheque.

I love the idea of not having to work and live off investment income, but I would need something to focus my day on. I would need projects and probably people to be around.
I love lollygagging, but having unlimited free time would undo me. I need structure. Work isn't the perfect structure, but it will do til I figure it out.
I am getting close to retirement, so I do kind of have a plan for this.

I am going to be a fucking spectacular retiree.

 

[chris d]

Work is a pile of shit, but I need money to pay the bills. I have met some brilliant people through it mind, and will meet up for pints with people I met 17 years ago and stopped working with at least 7 years ago. It also helps me keep in touch with the youth and their stupid way of speaking.

You got to try and let the good outweigh the bad.

 

[magicbastarder]

much as i dislike the idea, work gives me a reason to get up in the morning, and job satisfaction is good for the soul.

 

[dudley]

Just found out a friend has semi-retired on the back of his crypto investments... Fucker. My crypto portfolio currently stands at €118. Still, we wait.

 

[therealjohnny]

Just found out a friend has semi-retired on the back of his crypto investments... Fucker. My crypto portfolio currently stands at €118. Still, we wait.

I just do not understand this stuff

 

[magicbastarder]

world finance just seems to have become an abstraction of an abstraction of an abstraction of a concrete idea.
cryptocurrency just seems to be a distillation of that process.

 

[therealjohnny]

People who win millions and still turn up to work saying they'd miss their friends and/or routine. They do not deserve to win millions. Give it to me.

 

[magicbastarder]

there was a lad where i work who kept turning up for work despite a terminal diagnosis - he looked shocking for the last couple of months. i heard a few comments along the lines of 'fair play to him, do not go gentle into that good night'. i kept my mouth shut on that.

 

[therealjohnny]

there was a lad where i work who kept turning up for work despite a terminal diagnosis - he looked shocking for the last couple of months. i heard a few comments along the lines of 'fair play to him, do not go gentle into that good night'. i kept my mouth shut on that.

ah geez

 

[Kermit McDermott]

Yeah, I'm sick and tired of work as well. I hope to have everything in place to retire by 60, if I want to.
49 now. Have to make the money while you are able.

 

[nuke terrorist]

What you got paid 30 years ago doesn't really matter much does it?
You've clearly set yourself up to live with what you've got. And fair play. But money isn't your motivation.

As a thought, what if you were paid to be a sports historian or something? Would the responsibility ruin the enjoyment?

I do things for free by choice because I enjoy them. Same reason most people play music.
If I owed someone €50 I would get stressed about it. I don't want or need anymore money

The 90's wages part is relevant because I now get paid more in real terms for doing nothing than I did for working in the 1990's.

I got up at 7:45 this morning (not early) cause like most days I have loads to do.
Cook, walk, clean house, watch TV, listen to music, internet. I never feel bored. I wish everyday was about 35 hours long.
I used feel insulted as a teen that dole was presented as being terrible. Every day the sheer joyless drudgery of having been a 90's teen makes me appreciate how lucky I am.

 

[nuke terrorist]

The only thing I spend a lot of money on is records and going to one or two cheap gigs a month.

 

[therealjohnny]

I've also had enough of work, but have not saved anywhere near enough to retire. I'd like to somehow "come into money". Just enough to negate the need to work for the next 10 to 15 years. Then I'd go and see the world.

 

[magicbastarder]

my last indulgence on myself - the first big one in years, to be fair - cost me 11 times that €232 you get per week.

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

I didn't get my shit together in time so retirement will be when I'm too ill to work or just can't find any and I'll be a bit stuck then. On the plus side I did enjoy some dole time as a young man in my prime. I'd like about 6 additional hours in the day for me to pursue my non-work hobbies. As it is by the time I finish, get out and stretch the legs, cook, eat and attend to various other responsibilities there is very little useful time to do anything

 

[Kermit McDermott]

We all need to sign up to some of those on line financial guru courses.
Like Dan Lok, We could be earning ten thousand dowar a monf as a high twicket closah

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