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Do something positive - leave your job
- esponapule 16y agoLive Well, Laugh Often, Love Much
- jpdbaugh 16y agoI disagree about getting lost to find yourself. Sometimes you won't be able to get back out a self dug hole without a helping hand.
- mvp 16y agowhat do you mean? are you speaking from experience?
- jpdbaugh 16y agoBoth the articles statement were vague I guess, however I was referring to getting lost in thoughts and the trap of trying to figure everything out before making your move. I really am starting to find that is not have conscious thought about everything you want to do with your life and instead just do it. I really think over thinking or "getting lost" second guessing everything holds a lot of people back, including myself.
- Tamerlin 16y agoI don't think the two are related quite so closely. The idea isn't to do everything alone. The idea behind the walkabout is indeed to find yourself -- and when you return, you are accepted into society as a member. It's a coming of age ritual, and finding yourself is one of those things that only you can do. My sensei once told me that he could show me the road, but I had to walk it myself. I didn't get as far down the road of enlightenment (google Okinawa Kodokan if you want context) as I did without help, but I did walk the road myself.
- momotomo 16y agoI've found it's more about being in the hole than getting back out. It's only when you're really, truly screwed - in the sense that you're out of your comfort zone and have no clear path forward - that real learning happens / your character comes out. There's very few people who are decent and / or successful who haven't had some seriously hard knocks involved in shaping who they are. Edit for anecdote: I was a mid 20's guy with an average job and bad investments that put me close to 3/4 million in debt just before the crash. A lot of pain, panic and off the cuff decisions to save my own ass, but hell, was one of the best things to ever happen to me in hindsight.
- tseabrooks 16y agoI hate designers with more good taste than sense. That mess of characters isn't easy on the eyes. It doesn't make you look hip or cool. Making it an image means my readability bookmarklet won't work on it. There might be lot's of good info there but who want's to spend 5 minutes untangling that mess.
- mattm 16y agoSomething I learned teaching English in China. People who learn English as a second language and whose native language doesn't use latin letters have an extremely difficult time reading words in ALL CAPITALS. I was amazed when I gave a class a handout once which had sentences in all caps and they had an extremely tough time reading it. Since many people do not read each individual letter, but read by looking at the word, putting a word in all capitals changes the structure of the word and makes it more difficult to read.
- GFischer 16y agoHmm... maybe they didn't learn English the way it "should" be learnt, but applied the way Chinese use letters? (aren't ideograms supposed to convey the meaning? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_characters http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_characters) I don't think Russians or other people that use the Cyrillic alphabet, or Greeks have the same problem - so I believe it's not the different character set, but the ideograms. Learning a language as an adult is hard, I just wonder if it might have something to do with that. (I never had problems reading German or Portuguese in all capitals, or other languages I've tried learning, but they're almost the same language as English or Spanish when compared to an ideogram)
- julsonl 16y agoHaving studied both Chinese and English, I agree with you. Once you possess some sort of mastery with the English alphabet, you can more or less pronounce words phonetically. You might not know the meaning, but you could at least read it. With Chinese, Mandarin in particular, either you know the word or you don't. There might be clues to the word that (equivalent to English prefixes, roughly) allow you to associate it with an ideogram that you recognize and guess its pronunciation, but then you have to choose among 4 intonations of saying it.
- pluies 16y agoThis looked like a standard quite nicely typed "motivational speech", albeit a bit cliché, until the last sentence: "Live your dream, and wear your passion". Coming from what appears to be (I didn't know them before) a t-shirt company, to me it now reads as "life is short, buy our t-shirts". But maybe I'm just jaded. :)
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- jackolas 16y agoBuy our shirts so we can have other people make shirts for less money. But only 10%.
- galisevych 16y agoNot easy to just leave job with wife and kiddo on your shoulders. Yeah it is sounds good, but any job have good things and bad things, i'd say better try to find positive, good things about your job and concentrate on it, learn to concentrate on good things.
- exit 16y agoor we could add "don't have kids and don't get married" as advice
- thibaut_barrere 16y agoKids are ok, really.
- VinzO 16y agoThey are much more than just ok. It is great to have kids.
- daten 16y agoGreat as in emotionally satisfying to the parents? or great for society and the environment?
- thibaut_barrere 16y agoGreat for pushing myself to think about what I really want and how I can achieve that.
- thibaut_barrere 16y agoMy thoughts exactly - but my point was that I don't think they should be considered responsible for our actions (or lack thereof).
- maukdaddy 16y agoThat's about as good advice as the "don't go to lunch with colleagues" thread yesterday.
- meowzero 16y agoMy eyes hurt trying to read it. Besides, I like my job anyway. It would be a negative if I leave it.
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- silvajoao 16y agoMixed feeling about your fine comment. On the one hand, it masterfully debunks the original text. On the other hand, it's way too redditty, and I don't know if I want to see this often :) +1 nonetheless, since your comments are frequently very good.
- mynameishere 16y agoNon-mixed feeling: Pollution.
- alina24 16y agoYes,given that 1)you have money saved 2)your family won't starve 3)you are prepared for anything that comes next.
- terra_t 16y agosomebody's been taking seth godin way too seriously
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- grobolom 16y agoSure, maybe the plug is a bit cheesy. But these guys are really great. I met Mike from Hostlee at the 'A Better World by Design' conference up in Providence. He's a really cool guy, and definitely believes in living what you dream. I kinda wish he had designed that whole poster himself. Still, very cool, considering his dream is helping others.
- sp4rki 16y agoI would have been impressed if this was done CSS3, but really... An image? With a wall of text? A wall of text with words being pulled at random? A wall of unreadable text being pulled at random with little stylistic elements and such a variation of weights that my eyes water (and tears flow because of the pain) when reading it? I now wish to never leave the sanctity of my corporate, well paying job which, by the way, allows me to buy stuff, eat, and provide for my family. I hate this sanctimonious bullshit people try to pull off as being motivational. Everyone knows that loving your job is the best way to go, but you could be doing a lot worse (tried being a shoeless kid with no clean water and a sever case of malnutrition) than not 'loving' your job. You might not enjoy working at your local McDonalds, but if that's where you are now (for a lack of a better job) you better freaking try your hardest to better yourself, and in the process smile when you're giving me my fricking order. Not everyone has the luck of getting their dream job right away or the benefit of rich parents that allow some fast climbing in the social world. Stop preaching.
- c0nsilience 16y agoYou know what this garbage reminds me of? A book entitled "Bright-Sided" by Barbara Ehrenreich in which she talks about the dangers of obsessing with positive thinking and the American positive-thinking movement. Can you really advise anyone in this economy to quit his or her job just because there's something not to like? Will you find your loved one, or "soul mate," simply by doing the things you love? It's dangerous thinking like this that leaves one ill-prepared for the realities of life -- it's hard. Life is hard. Life isn't fair. Lear to take the bad with the good. After all, we can't appreciate good health if it wasn't for the occasional cold or cough here and there. Go ahead and live your dream and wear your passion, whatever the hell that means, but don't forget that things don't always work out as planned. Be prepared for that.
- uast23 16y ago"Quit your job" is not the crux here. The crux here is "Live your life" and one way of achieving it could be quitting your job. And I think the cut-out is trying to convey the same. It actually says "IF YOU DON'T LIKE YOUR JOB, QUIT" rather than "QUIT YOUR JOB". Quitting the job or sticking to it will hardly matter as long as priorities are set straight. Regarding the readability of the message, I think it depends on your reading frequency. I did not struggle at all. And just for the records, my native tongue is not English.
- makeramen 16y agoslightly related?: their recycled wallets look cool.
- webuiarchitect 16y agoThat's what I was saying all the time