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Who else enjoys working?

Working, love it or loathe it?

  • Love it!

    Votes: 31 33.7%

  • Hate it!

    Votes: 19 20.7%

  • Tis allright

    Votes: 36 39.1%

  • OU is teh nonce

    Votes: 6 6.5%
  • Total voters
    92
all this stuff people come out with about having nothing to do. i've spent periods of unemployment and i never find i have nothing to do. you spend a few hours a day job hunting and filling out application forms, you have long lunches, you watch any interesting quiz shows, you go for walks or bike rides, if you're in london all the museums and galleries are free and just a pound bus-ride away (or free if you like to walk or cycle). you can devote whole days to reading books about interesting things.

oh i could never tire of being unemployed. it's being fucking skint that annoys me.
 
I actually quite enjoy work, most of the time.

As long as I have stuff to do and can do things my own way I'm cool. A little bit of self imposed stress makes the day go faster but too much extraneous stress makes me ill. :(

I can't be dealing with much responsibility and I hate having to talk on the phone too often or sit in pointless meetings. Just give me a big pile of work and plonk me in a corner to get on with it and I'm dandy. ;)
 
i enjoy aspects of my job. the kids, my bonkers colleagues, the challenges and some of the fights i have to have that really get my adrenalin going.

i don't enjoy endless meetings with bosses in suits where i'm patronised, patted on the head and have to talk very slowly so the fuckin idiots can understand what i'm on about.....

and then they say 'great idea but, no, there's no money'.

:mad:
 
bluestreak said:
all this stuff people come out with about having nothing to do. i've spent periods of unemployment and i never find i have nothing to do. you spend a few hours a day job hunting and filling out application forms, you have long lunches, you watch any interesting quiz shows, you go for walks or bike rides, if you're in london all the museums and galleries are free and just a pound bus-ride away (or free if you like to walk or cycle). you can devote whole days to reading books about interesting things.
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i guess some people like a structure to their life, or enjoy company, and most people aren't unemployed, so an unemployed person's company options are limited. i hate working at home cos i can't bare a whole 8 hours by myself. call me weird if you want! and i would hate to spend days on end on my own trecking around london and/or reading books :)
 
in the main, i enjoy my job. it can get a bit stressful at times but that's mainly when i let myself slip and don't stay on top of it. most of the time i'm left to my own devices to just get on with things as i see fit.
 
milesy said:
in the main, i enjoy my job. it can get a bit stressful at times but that's mainly when i let myself slip and don't stay on top of it. most of the time i'm left to my own devices to just get on with things as i see fit.
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It's the other way round for me, if they don't give me loads to do, I end up posting pics of animals online
 
Orang Utan said:
That is really really strange!
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why? i am sociable - i enjoy talking to colleagues at work. and when i say i can't bare 8 hours by myself, i mean i can't bare to work for 8 hours by myself. i am happy to chillax for 8 hours on my own.
 
If I didn't have to work I'd spend all of my time making music, walking, eating, taking drugs and having sex. If you get paid for doing what you love you're in a very privileged position. Otherwise the best you can hope for is get into the most tolerable job you can and stop at the level that gets you the most pay/free time!

(Incidentally - if anyone does want to pay me for what I'd rather be doing then I'll be your best employee, put in loads of overtime, etc. ;))
 
dolly's gal said:
why? i am sociable - i enjoy talking to colleagues at work. and when i say i can't bare 8 hours by myself, i mean i can't bare to work for 8 hours by myself. i am happy to chillax for 8 hours on my own.
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Oh right, I thought you meant altogether - no, I would never get any work done if I was left to my own devices
 
Hate the having to be there at specific times and being (a bit) tidy in appearance, management and the politics of it.

Like being able to talk enthusiastic bollocks endlessly and most of my students.

Love the six week holiday I am currently on and though I feel like a mercenary capitalist cow admitting it - I do like the pay as its letting me spend a proportion of that six weeks in the sun, some time in Amsterdam and a generous amount sitting on my generous arse.
 
Nope

And there's no fucking way in the world you would get me working if I had £££s :eek: I'm with bluey - there's so MUCH to do besides work!
 
I like being creative, using my brain, having goals, meaningful interaction with peple. SO based on my last job, as it had none of those. I'd say no. This may change.
 
I'm going through phases at the minute. Love my job one minute then hate it then next. When i'm left to my own devices I can get on with it in my office, but other than that my boss is a fucking prick.

I need a new job. :(
 
I like my job, but I'd rather not have a job but have the same money.

Actually, being totally unemployed isn't all that good for me - I need a reason to eat and sleep properly and not drink and drug too much, and if I don't have one it all gets a bit messy. Ideally I'd do the job I have now, but only 2 or 3 afternoons a week :cool:
 
Yep, I love my job.
The actual work, the hours, the money - its all good (except for the paperwork of which I do the bare minimum)
 
I am another one who loves working and who loves my current job. As anyone who has seen in the "through they keyhole" thread, I am not one of those folks who enjoy housework and home making and, even when I was on benefits with a small child, I used to do tons of voluntary work, including taking my daughter all over the country to various meetings and political things.

Now that I work for a trade union, although there are times (like now - I have got a hearing tomorrow, and I am still waiting for the papers to be sent to me so I can prepare for it! Another late night!) when I find it very stressful, and get very angry at the lack of support I get from my bosses, etc., I feel that I am very fortunate to be doing a job which I am good at, which I enjoy, and which is "worthy" at the same time. One of my friends recently pointed out that some of the stuff I do for money is actually changing people's lives, collectively and individually, and that's got to be good....

I need more money, though! (Yeah, yeah, don't we all!) :)

ETA Well, except felixthecat, it would seem! :)
 
bluestreak said:
oh i could never tire of being unemployed. it's being fucking skint that annoys me.
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That's how I feel too. There is an infinite amount of stuff you can do for free in London, and I'd never get bored of that. Even if it's just walking or cycling around all day, when you've run out of museums, art galleries, etc. etc, which I can't imagine one would.

I like the books that Tom Hodgkinson has written about this issue - eg. 'How to be Idle' and 'How to be Free'. He believes that the whole structure of our working society is wrong, and that people generally feel enslaved by time and by the 9-5.

Part-time is the ideal situation, IMO, or freelance eg. 3 months working, 3 months off, alternately. Basically just working half the time.
 
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