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I wish I wanted to work a lot. I just kind of force myself to do it, even if it's something I'm excited about.

by iopq 11y ago

ambicapter 11y ago
Same. Then again, I'm not where I want to be. Looking at all the workaholics in this thread I'm simultaneously intrigued and weirded out.
- henrikschroder 11y ago
  I'm also weirded out. Who wants to work? How can you not have as a life goal to not work? It sucks for the most part! As for Marx and Keynes and others, thinking about what people will do if they're freed of labour, have you SEEN youtube? People are not lacking ideas on things to do, quite the opposite!
  - icelancer 11y ago
    My work is my life's dream. I did it for years as a hobby making no $ (losing money really) and worked terrible tech jobs I hated until I could switch the two. Now I work 80 hours per week but it feels like 5. So it's not work to me.
    - id 11y ago
      So I guess your profile hasn't been updated in a while? And what is it that you're are doing now? Must be really awesome if it's still enjoyable after 80 hours.
      - icelancer 11y ago
        It sure as hell isn't Data Science. Well I guess I do some of that at my job. But now it's for fun. I work in sports science now. It's great.
  - oldmanjay 11y ago
    Telling people that living as they wish "sucks" doesn't make you right about them, it makes you a bigot.
    - adrusi 11y ago
      The parent didn't say that. The comment was an expression of confoundedness ("I'm also weirded out ..."), not condemnation.
mseebach 11y ago
For me, I never actively sought out working a lot, it just happened: I managed to get into a position where something I'm good at is really useful to other people, and in return (besides cash and appreciation) they let me do even more of what I'm good at, as well as actively support my development in areas I could become very good at, but aren't yet (in return for to even more cash and appreciation). Retrospectively, I pretty actively engineered my path into this position, even if there never was a very conscious plan. Plenty of small improvements, plenty of listening to my gut, plenty of being wrong and then trying to learn from that. But yeah, that's easy enough to say in retrospect, not something 10-years-ago me would have found very actionable.

I wish I wanted to work a lot. I just kind of force myself to do it, even if it's something I'm excited about.

by iopq 11y ago

I wish I wanted to work a lot. I just kind of force myself to do it, even if it's something I'm excited about.

Same. Then again, I'm not where I want to be. Looking at all the workaholics in this thread I'm simultaneously intrigued and weirded out.

henrikschroder 11y ago
I'm also weirded out. Who wants to work? How can you not have as a life goal to not work? It sucks for the most part! As for Marx and Keynes and others, thinking about what people will do if they're freed of labour, have you SEEN youtube? People are not lacking ideas on things to do, quite the opposite!
- icelancer 11y ago
  My work is my life's dream. I did it for years as a hobby making no $ (losing money really) and worked terrible tech jobs I hated until I could switch the two. Now I work 80 hours per week but it feels like 5. So it's not work to me.
  - id 11y ago
    So I guess your profile hasn't been updated in a while? And what is it that you're are doing now? Must be really awesome if it's still enjoyable after 80 hours.
    - icelancer 11y ago
      It sure as hell isn't Data Science. Well I guess I do some of that at my job. But now it's for fun. I work in sports science now. It's great.
- oldmanjay 11y ago
  Telling people that living as they wish "sucks" doesn't make you right about them, it makes you a bigot.
  - adrusi 11y ago
    The parent didn't say that. The comment was an expression of confoundedness ("I'm also weirded out ..."), not condemnation.

mseebach 11y ago

For me, I never actively sought out working a lot, it just happened: I managed to get into a position where something I'm good at is really useful to other people, and in return (besides cash and appreciation) they let me do even more of what I'm good at, as well as actively support my development in areas I could become very good at, but aren't yet (in return for to even more cash and appreciation). Retrospectively, I pretty actively engineered my path into this position, even if there never was a very conscious plan. Plenty of small improvements, plenty of listening to my gut, plenty of being wrong and then trying to learn from that. But yeah, that's easy enough to say in retrospect, not something 10-years-ago me would have found very actionable.