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What do you mean, a job can be meaningless? Nihilist by day, family man by night? Come on.

• edent 4y ago
  Sometimes a job is just a job. It puts bread on the table. Nothing more. Most people aren't working on something they care about.
  • barrysteve 4y ago
    You and badpun who replied below, equate meaning with care/not caring. Care or don't that's fine. It is meaning though. You've already committed to a particular meaning and are just making a point about what you'll give up to have less of it. I won't touch that with a ten foot pole though. You devour the aim, the target and split your life in two, 8hrs at work, 8hrs asleep, when are you living?
    • majewsky 4y ago
      Obviously during the other 8 hours. There is no requirement that you need to be generating meaning every hour of the day. In fact, it's pretty much impossible. There's no way to derive a deeper meaning from the 8 hours spent sleeping. It's just a thing you have to do to survive, and being alive is a prerequisite for finding meaning at some point. Depending on personal circumstances, it's absolutely reasonable to look at work (or rather, the salary) as another necessary prerequisite for attaining whatever meaning one is looking for.
• badpun 4y ago
  90%+ of people don't care about their jobs (60%+ of them actively dislikes them IIRC), are they all nihilists in your book?