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Topic: Hmm, would you work under these conditions? (Poll- kinda sorta)
Mord
Priest of Peachis
posted 09-03-2001 06:29:00 PM
Extremely bored at work , so I just thought I'd see just who would continue to work under the same conditions that I experience. Thankfully it's only 3 days a week...anymore and I'd explode (and that would be very messy. )

Problem #1 - Working in a field you promised you would never work in. Ever.
(No, I am not a gigolo...)

Problem #2 - The head partner (or director) happens to be your father.
(Would work well if it was a darth vadar type enterprise going, but unfortunately we're not attempting to rule the galaxy. Perhaps next week?)

Problem #3 - The Imperial March begins playing Your supervisor is your step-mother : an evil woman, with a truly black heart. Akin to the batman villain two-face, she must always be right and your work must always be 'not wrong, just not correct.'

Problem #4 - Being the bosse's son, the other members of the office view you with more than a little contempt.

Now for the good aspects -

#1 The pay is quite good.
#2 Close to home.
#3 Flexible hours.

"Why not take another job!?" I hear you ask,
well unfortunately my fields of study limit the type of work I can do and a lack of office experience prevents the getting of any work in that field.

Sooo...

Do I take the experience I've gained working here (which would nicely add to my resume) and leave, or stay and turn into a twitching aussie?

Mog
not really a mmembe rof tis boered
posted 09-03-2001 06:34:00 PM
Twitching aussie, man

[ 09-03-2001: Message edited by: mog ]


Regret calamities if you can thereby help the sufferer; if not, attend to your own work and allready the evil begins to be repaired
- Self Rreliance
Bloodsage
Heart Attack
posted 09-03-2001 06:34:00 PM
Build your resume, then bail when you have something better lined up. Never make the mistake of leaving before you have something else lined up--as in a written job offer.

To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell:
Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.

--Satan, quoted by John Milton

Peach
Good intentions? Or *bad* intentions?
posted 09-03-2001 06:37:00 PM
Well, if you'd stop excaping from your cage, You wouldn't have to go to work!

I feed you!
Heck, I even bring you treats *winks*
Sounds like you and snoopy need a hug..

squeezes Arcadus

Ged
Pancake
posted 09-03-2001 06:52:00 PM
life is a journy and is only lived once. (if you believe in trancendance, chances are you wont remember this life anyway) so if you want to be truly happy look to the path and not the destination. find what makes you happy, what gives you meaning, or your gift, then do it. doing somthing you hate toward a goal is not life, its tunnel vision.

then again not everyone is happy with a simple life, but think for a moment of all the millions who live as fishers, and store clerks. were lead to believe we will all get dream jobs after we go to collage weather we realize it or not, and when it doesnt happen some go nuts, and others realize it can be just as good a life if not better when you stop caring about such temporary things things.

the best advise i can offer, not knowing you, is follow your principals. in following them if you live to be 120 or another day at least you will have lived.

"understanding is a three edged sword"
Mortious
Gluttonous Overlard
posted 09-03-2001 07:02:00 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Peachis:
Heck, I even bring you treats *winks*

No one brings me treats

Kanid
BANNED
posted 09-03-2001 07:09:00 PM
Sorry Mort, I'm too afraid you'd bite my hand as I fed it to you.
"Unlike adults, children have little need to deceive themselves." - Goethe
Happiness is subjective, subject yourself to it whenever possible.
"A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams." - John Barrymore
Wise men still seek Him.
Mog
not really a mmembe rof tis boered
posted 09-03-2001 07:18:00 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Ged:
life is a journy and is only lived once. (if you believe in trancendance, chances are you wont remember this life anyway) so if you want to be truly happy look to the path and not the destination. find what makes you happy, what gives you meaning, or your gift, then do it. doing somthing you hate toward a goal is not life, its tunnel vision.

then again not everyone is happy with a simple life, but think for a moment of all the millions who live as fishers, and store clerks. were lead to believe we will all get dream jobs after we go to collage weather we realize it or not, and when it doesnt happen some go nuts, and others realize it can be just as good a life if not better when you stop caring about such temporary things things.

the best advise i can offer, not knowing you, is follow your principals. in following them if you live to be 120 or another day at least you will have lived.


All that could be paraphrased into one sentance.

Evry man dies, not evry man realy lives.


Regret calamities if you can thereby help the sufferer; if not, attend to your own work and allready the evil begins to be repaired
- Self Rreliance
Mord
Priest of Peachis
posted 09-03-2001 07:22:00 PM
Well, I've gone the way of choosing work that will provide a decent income that myself and my fiance can support ourselves off of. I studied to become an Egyptologist, and still hope to take it on some time in the future, but for now am stuck doing other work (which I don't hate - it's the situation around the work that causes the problems.)

And i'd prefer to -not- be a twitching aussie-man!

Grins at Peachis Well I can't help it if people keep leaving my cage unlocked!

Abbikat
Tastes best with pudding
posted 09-03-2001 07:51:00 PM
*is a twitching aussie... (just look at the bottom right corner)*



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Gikk
SCA babe!!!
posted 09-03-2001 07:57:00 PM
Well, your one up on me,.. you have a job.

I would start looking while keeping your old job, so you know what your options are.

Pvednes
Lynched
posted 09-04-2001 05:58:00 AM
I'm a twitching Aussie too, often enough.
Pesco
Is a copyright of Peachis. Don't underestimate his pants, either.
posted 09-04-2001 08:03:00 AM
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