Worse Jobs You've Held?

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by Skybird

Work as a fetish like it is today, and work-related diseases and burnout as a status symbol? Our society is sick, I say. We were not born to serve factories' needs. Again my advise: work as much as you must, check your demands on living standards and see if you can tweak them and still be happy, do not work more than necessary, as long as you do not really love your job. No man on Earth has any claims to make for you and has no demand that you should serve his interests, as long as you do not live at his costs and do not spend what is his.

And if you do not know what to do with your time if you must not work, and have no interests of yourself, then you have a big problem, me thinks, and you may want to talk with a counselor on that.

Time when you are happy and are absorbed by what interests you, is living time well spent. May be hobby, may be work on your farm, may even be your profession if you are lucky, may be whatever it is. Time when you count the seconds until your shift is over is a waste of life. Maybe needed to make your living, but nothing that gives meaning to your life. Cut it as short as you can afford, for you will not get back that time.

We may not see eye to eye on a few things, Sky, but I can't disagree with you on this at all. After all, at the end of the day, you can't take it with you.

In regards to me and jobs, honestly, I've only been in three different paid jobs, and whilst none of them have been particularly earth-shattering they've also not been terrible, so I mustn't grumble.