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Well, you don't spend the rest of your time drooling, you know. You volunteer, get politically active, take care of others, cook and garden, get exercise and s
by Jill_the_Pill 8y ago
Well, you don't spend the rest of your time drooling, you know. You volunteer, get politically active, take care of others, cook and garden, get exercise and sunshine, chat with friends and family, do creative projects, clean, do small repairs, read, write, learn things. I stayed home with my kids for 10 years and was never bored.
- dmos62 8y agoI'll summarize that, if I may: there can be a life outside work.
- amelius 8y agoSome of those things sound more like work than actual work :)
- thatoneuser 8y agoThat's part of the propaganda. "Idk what I'd do without my job". It's not hard to come up with productive activities that aren't sitting in an office. I mean it's not trivial, but neither is spending 40 years of your life scraping for one more rung on the ladder. Don't get me wrong im usually bored when I'm out of work. But that's more because when I'm not working I also don't have money to do other meaningful things.
- imtringued 8y agoNo time for interesting projects while working... No money for interesting projects while not working... Well, at least learning languages is both cheap and not very time consuming ( although more time is always better ). But in terms of years it's still a long time.
- zeroonetwothree 8y agoFor some (many?) people working is more enjoyable than the things you listed. There's nothing wrong with that. IME not working and working in the range of 20, 40, and 60 hour weeks, around 35-40 is the sweet spot for me.