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> "oh man that's the dream, you just sit in a chair in the air conditioning all day? you don't know how lucky you have it!" When I'm having this conversation,
by golergka 5y ago
> "oh man that's the dream, you just sit in a chair in the air conditioning all day? you don't know how lucky you have it!"
When I'm having this conversation, I usually reply with something along the lines "yes, but imagine that most of your job in that air-conditioned office is doing math tests". It's not a perfect analogy, but it's a pretty valid one in terms of mental fatigue.
- lowercased 5y agoand... trying to teach other people how to do math, then having to argue with them why their wrong answers can't be accepted, or having to go redo stacks of previous math problems done wrong by someone who left a year ago.
- petsormeat 5y ago...while some sales bro seated next to you "to break down silos" is clanging a gong and seeking high-fives, and every 90 minutes you're obliged to trudge into a conference room to discuss yet other math problems that can't reuse the solutions to the previous ones, and the math reference you have is missing 1/3 of its material.