Job

[pjthompson]

Random quote of the day:

“A REAL job is a job you hate.”

—Bill Watterson, “Some Thoughts On the Real World By One Who Glimpsed It and Fled,” Kenyon College Commencement, May 20, 1990

 

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

 

Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

Comments

[mnfaure.livejournal.com]

Isn't it sad that this is the normal view of "gainful employ"?

[pjthompson.livejournal.com]

It is. I don't think he's anti-work, though, just anti-"settling."

http://web.mit.edu/jmorzins/www/C-H-speech.html

[mnfaure.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I read sarcasm in his quote above. :P Not an idea that he really gets behind.

Thanks for linking to the whole speech. He says so much that resonates with me. I particularly like this:

You will do well to cultivate the resources in yourself that bring you happiness outside of success or failure.

And how many times have a been told/felt a version of this in the last couple of years:

In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive. Ambition is only understood if it's to rise to the top of some imaginary ladder of success. Someone who takes an undemanding job because it affords him the time to pursue other interests and activities is considered a flake. A person who abandons a career in order to stay home and raise children is considered not to be living up to his potential-as if a job title and salary are the sole measure of human worth.

[pjthompson.livejournal.com]

Exactly. It resonated strongly with me, too, which is why I have several quotes from it sprinkled through the quote file. That last quote, about the undemanding job, is pretty much the story of my life.

I guess I better get back to doing what I like, huh? It's coming slowly, and mostly through tactile craft, but at least it's coming.

Continue to cultivate that which makes you happy, mi amica. :-)