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Honestly one of the best days of work I felt was after I spent a day helping a guy in my church lay new sidewalk in front of his house, it was hard labor for li

Honestly one of the best days of work I felt was after I spent a day helping a guy in my church lay new sidewalk in front of his house, it was hard labor for like 5 hours, and afterwards I walked home and felt so exhausted, but I also felt complete, like I did something good. It's the damn golden handcuffs man.

yamtaddle 4y ago
It's sitting staring at a screen... all day, every day. Like you, I know for a fact I'm not lazy. Not at all. I love working and dive into it enthusiastically. This is a consistent and effortless experience of mine, throughout my life. It's natural and rewarding to work hard. What makes me seem lazy a lot of the time is that most jobs are just a few types of activity, focusing on just one or two major ends at a time, repeated over and fucking over for 40 hours week after week. Programming's fun, but it's not 40-hours-a-week-every-week-for-all-the-best-hours-of-5/7-days fun. Not one year after another after another. I fucking dread it and, sure, I slack off. Because it's literally an in-human thing to ask of people. But, economics. So, we optimize. And here we are. Hooray. [EDIT] Like, truly, most things I do specifically for pleasure stop being enjoyable well before the 40-hours-a-week mark. A particular kind of work might be outright fun, maybe even for 40 hours in a week, hell, maybe for 80 hours in a week, but by the second or third 40-hour week it's probably gonna be something I would much rather stop doing in favor of something else—even other work, ideally as different from what I've been doing as possible (been programming three weeks straight, need a break; got any firewood that needs splitting or square bales that need gathering?).
- wonderwonder 4y ago
  And the endless context switching. I just can't get people to leave me alone long enough to get anything done. Constant requests from people above me and below me and no resources to get anything finished. It's exhausting and it all takes place on a stupid monitor in my office at home. I've never even met the people I've worked with for the last 3 years. I live at work and it bleeds into everything.
  - esskay 4y ago
    Well crap, this thread basically describes my sad depressing life to a tee. I'm sure it does to a lot of people here. Anyway, its time for bed. Gotta be at work in 7 hours to carry on doing the same thing I've been doing for 9 years straight whilst pretending to love it.

yamtaddle 4y ago

It's sitting staring at a screen... all day, every day. Like you, I know for a fact I'm not lazy. Not at all. I love working and dive into it enthusiastically. This is a consistent and effortless experience of mine, throughout my life. It's natural and rewarding to work hard. What makes me seem lazy a lot of the time is that most jobs are just a few types of activity, focusing on just one or two major ends at a time, repeated over and fucking over for 40 hours week after week. Programming's fun, but it's not 40-hours-a-week-every-week-for-all-the-best-hours-of-5/7-days fun. Not one year after another after another. I fucking dread it and, sure, I slack off. Because it's literally an in-human thing to ask of people. But, economics. So, we optimize. And here we are. Hooray. [EDIT] Like, truly, most things I do specifically for pleasure stop being enjoyable well before the 40-hours-a-week mark. A particular kind of work might be outright fun, maybe even for 40 hours in a week, hell, maybe for 80 hours in a week, but by the second or third 40-hour week it's probably gonna be something I would much rather stop doing in favor of something else—even other work, ideally as different from what I've been doing as possible (been programming three weeks straight, need a break; got any firewood that needs splitting or square bales that need gathering?).

wonderwonder 4y ago
And the endless context switching. I just can't get people to leave me alone long enough to get anything done. Constant requests from people above me and below me and no resources to get anything finished. It's exhausting and it all takes place on a stupid monitor in my office at home. I've never even met the people I've worked with for the last 3 years. I live at work and it bleeds into everything.
- esskay 4y ago
  Well crap, this thread basically describes my sad depressing life to a tee. I'm sure it does to a lot of people here. Anyway, its time for bed. Gotta be at work in 7 hours to carry on doing the same thing I've been doing for 9 years straight whilst pretending to love it.