I always thought when I got a full time job making real money that I would be happy but that didn't include all the stress, politics, commute, unpaid overtime, dumb coworkers and boss, etc. Part of me just wants to just say screw it and live in the woods like Thoreau. I think I'd be more happy making less money, but having more time to myself, something I would enjoy doing, not the soul sucking corporate jobs. I always envied people like Jobs who did what they loved and made bank too. His speech really made me think. Text of Steve Jobs' Commencement address (2005) We're going to die so might as well do what you love right? That led me to this http://briankim.net/blog/2006/07/how-to-find-what-you-love-to-do/ It got me thinking of some online business I can start that won't take too much of my time but curious if anybody else has actually left the 9-5 for the simple life and didn't regret it. Part of me just thinks it's greener grass but part of me thinks the simple life IS really greener.
Few weeks ago I stumbled upon an article about Bhutan, the poorest country of the world. Strangely it's also the most content and happy country of the world. Western culture hasn't infiltrated there yet and they just got television about 15 years ago. I'm seriously thinking about moving there after I finished my study for a couple of months/years and work there at a school, helping the young locals. I don't like the 9-5 idea either. I do have a good potential carreer ahead of me though.
9-5 is a killer. Why should a job be allowed to dictate your life unless you absolutely love it? As soon as you're stuck in that 9-5 routine, only 28 days A YEAR you're allowed to yourself (sometimes less), your life is just completely controlled by that. I know we all need to work because fucking hell, we need money. But I think doing something you enjoy and being able to feel free to do what you want to do is much more important than being trapped in a world controlled by someone else's rules. Unfortunately anything outside of that routine is either highly underpaid or takes a LOT of work and luck to get into. But I say fight for what you believe in and never give up until it's vital. Fuck you Mr. Boss Man!!
We work 9/5 and for what?? The money is never enough, you never have time for yourself or your children and you wake-up one day and notice that i sent half our lifes feeling like we never really lived for ourself. Sad state if you ask me but hay....
just going to point out if you live in the woods your "work" schedule will go from 9-5 to light to dark, or even deep into the night depending on food status you cant just... go live in the woods lol... You need food, shelter, protection, clean water...
work sucks, not working sucks, so basically life is shit and then you die, i found out pretty early on
Meh, your job doesn't define you. I think if you want to be happy, you can be happy regardless of what you do for a living. People like to blame their unhappiness on their jobs. Although, a big part of that unhappiness (I believe) is because jobs reward you physically (money). So, people work just for the sake of receiving that often times very small reward. Physical rewards will not provide motivation or happiness, internal rewards do that. That why I believe that you can be happy in pretty much any job, IF you can create a sense of accomplishment and satisfaction in working as opposed to just going through the motions to reap the rewards. Working a 9-5 job doesn't need to be a "grind." We just turn it into that. This is coming from someone who works in the manufacturing business. If I can be happy and content literally doing the same thing ever 30 seconds for 8-12 hours a day, I think one can be content with just about ANY job out there. Your perception is far more important than "reality," in terms on happiness.
Couldn't have said it better myself. People in Europe have it right. They get a TON of vacation time. If we could move to a 10 hour + 4 day work week, I would be down for that. We need some innovation to the 9-5 lifestyle. This isn't working.
Who doesn't want just a simple life? No one wants to fucking work, unless we're doing something we actually enjoy doing, which not everyone can do. But we do what we need to do for money for food, shelter, our kids, and to make our car payments for the car that gets us to the job. And it's never enough. Inflation keeps rising, the economy keeps depressing, and the middle class is shrinking. Life sucks. Money is the prime motive for human labor in modern civilization. "Unless you're part of that tiny minority that has more money than they could ever spend in their lifetime, then you must work, beg or steal for that money." "Thats why you get up in the morning and go to work, even if you hate your job. And that's why the specter of unemployment is more terrifying for most people, than the prospect of spending 50 years of their life performing meaningless tasks within a fluorescently lit cubical." A little negative but just bein real.
North or bhutan, above China is another landlocked country that has an outdoor way of life, mongolia. It is also poor but away from the city in the steppes, people live the way they did like 10,000 years ago, on horseback and huts (gers), and basically live off animal stock and alcohol (fermented milk). There you could live completely off the land without any government assistance or annoyance. I think there are some pirating out there but they're not interested in anything other than maybe your live stock.
Sure it sucks but what can you do?need money whether we like it or not...I've turned down killer jobs that would've had me sitting alright by now if I jus put in the grind to have funds to fund my passions.part of me still wants to pack up and just go travel.this isn't fairy tale land though.I'm gonna take the time to save up some money to fund my real passions. All completely possible but man I'm scared to fail the 9-5 life or lose my mind in it.but I got bills to pay.I mean hell being financially independent is your first step to freedom.I'm gonna go work so I don't have to depend on anyone.I mean hell we've all got bills to pay. It just depends on what u want.
And I want A house or land so I can grow things, maybe a music studio.....and some pussy. Can't get any pussy in the woods.other than that,IFK I'm still as lost as you and still want to just travel and write and live happily ever after on the beach with my exotic girl. But there's also a chance a meth head will be butt fucking your dead carcass in a ditch.got to weigh these things out
Man I remember when I was 18.. Just starting out.. Still dreaming.. Still having hope for a post work lifestyle. And then reality hit and boom. To the grind like almost everyone else.