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So your goal in life is essentially to relax?

by Tichy 15y ago

AndrewDucker 15y ago
Good Lord No. I also want to make life better for my fiancee, and make sure that I'm in a secure position for raising children. If my job was making me unhappy then I'd move to a different one. And I've quit jobs before when the management were doing things I disapproved of. And I give money to charity, and (as I said) get involved in occasional political things (like the voting reform referendum earlier this year).
- Tichy 15y ago
  In a reasonably ideal world, most normal jobs are actually useful, too... It's not as if only charity work is worthwhile.
smashing 15y ago
You come across as judgmental to me. If there were more people who's goal was essentially to relax, how bad would things be?
- Tichy 15y ago
  I did not say that relaxing is bad. I just wanted to clarify if that was the ultimate life's goal. Although I can't help thinking that to be dead would probably be the ultimate relaxation. So if relaxing is your goal, why bother?
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fabjan 15y ago
Mine is, or I don't really know. What's the problem?
- Tichy 15y ago
  No problem - just wanted to be clear.
- btcoal 15y ago
  I just have never been able to understand how some people can look at all the challenges in the world and not feel a need to solve one of them. But, I admit, this is the majority of most people. Of the minority of people that really feel compelled to "make a dent in the universe" (Steve Jobs) the majority of them are probably stuck in meaningless jobs. This article speaks to this group.
mannicken 15y ago
And your goal is to pretend you're making a huge difference that will probably not get noticed by anyone, and even if it does, it will be for a very short period of time and after a while everyone will die and forget about it, and then the Earth will die of heat death or something, and everything you made with your "YEAAAH!" enthusiasm and pain will be destroyed anyway. Have fun with that perspective ;-)

So your goal in life is essentially to relax?

by Tichy 15y ago

So your goal in life is essentially to relax?

Good Lord No. I also want to make life better for my fiancee, and make sure that I'm in a secure position for raising children. If my job was making me unhappy then I'd move to a different one. And I've quit jobs before when the management were doing things I disapproved of. And I give money to charity, and (as I said) get involved in occasional political things (like the voting reform referendum earlier this year).

Tichy 15y ago
In a reasonably ideal world, most normal jobs are actually useful, too... It's not as if only charity work is worthwhile.

smashing 15y ago

You come across as judgmental to me. If there were more people who's goal was essentially to relax, how bad would things be?

Tichy 15y ago
I did not say that relaxing is bad. I just wanted to clarify if that was the ultimate life's goal. Although I can't help thinking that to be dead would probably be the ultimate relaxation. So if relaxing is your goal, why bother?
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fabjan 15y ago

Mine is, or I don't really know. What's the problem?

Tichy 15y ago
No problem - just wanted to be clear.
btcoal 15y ago
I just have never been able to understand how some people can look at all the challenges in the world and not feel a need to solve one of them. But, I admit, this is the majority of most people. Of the minority of people that really feel compelled to "make a dent in the universe" (Steve Jobs) the majority of them are probably stuck in meaningless jobs. This article speaks to this group.

mannicken 15y ago

And your goal is to pretend you're making a huge difference that will probably not get noticed by anyone, and even if it does, it will be for a very short period of time and after a while everyone will die and forget about it, and then the Earth will die of heat death or something, and everything you made with your "YEAAAH!" enthusiasm and pain will be destroyed anyway. Have fun with that perspective ;-)