Anybody love to wake up on Mondays to go to work?

[LeagueShadows24]

So with all the chatter on the new Iphone coming out this Sept, I was reading more about Steve Jobs because it seems like this was the last product he was working on before he died. I stumbled upon this speech he gave at Stanford. http://news.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html

It makes a lot of sense. We weren't made to work in cubicles 9-5 for the majority of our lives. Work should have more meaning than that right? So I decided to follow his advice on finding what I love and this article came up
http://briankim.net/blog/2006/07/how-to-find-what-you-love-to-do/

It gave me some good ideas to follow but I wonder if there's anybody out there like Jobs who loves what they do, so much to the point where they actually look forward to Mondays. What do you do for a living? What it's like? Do you make enough to your liking? How much better is it than working like a cubicle slave?

[Duer 157099]

1. I do

I like it so much that I often can't wait and go in on Sundays too.

[LNM]

2. Welcome to DU!

When I was working (semi-retired now) I hated Mondays so much I'd get ill on Sunday afternoons.

[LeagueShadows24]

13. thanks for the welcome!

I know that feel. I hate it!

[HopeHoops]

3. Is this one of those "Anybody like to get raped in the ass by a tractor hitch" threads?

Pretty much the same thing. Jobs might have loved what he was doing, but the cubicle drones and slave laborers in China sure don't. They had to put up nets around the perimeter of the factory to catch jumpers. No matter what you think of Jobs, Gates, Fiorina, Dell, Palmisano, or the many others who ran such companies, they are all responsible for making the worker-bee cubicle farms the norm for every level of business. They're all responsible for mass layoffs without regard to performance history, also a norm now. They're all responsible for cutting benefits and creating an atmosphere of fear. Perhaps that's not what they started out to become (unlike rMoney), but that's what they did become.

Cubicles are evil. I had a large office 20 years ago with a shitload of computers and workstations (multi-window terminals) and a 4'x8' whiteboard. I even had room for a Barney the Dinosaur poster on one of the walls. I had a somewhat smaller office 12 years ago (also with a door and a 4'x8' whiteboard). Those days are long gone, as is the 9-5 workweek and job security. Even as a director of technology a few years ago, the best they could do was a tiny cubicle. Now I've got my computer room (man cave) and the work I get is done here.

A few years back, Mike Doonsbury took a tour of his own cubicle farm in the comic strip and came back stunned to find that the employees had Dilbert strips up on the cubicle walls. Yes, that's fiction, but it's based on fact.

Sorry about the reply title, but I couldn't think of a better way to describe it.

[raccoon]

6. You have such a way with words, Hope! nt

[HopeHoops]

8. Why thank you. I used to have a 2-hour (minimum) commute. That was Monday morning.

[LeagueShadows24]

14. ouch

harsh truth right here. It just gets worse and worse. You know it's bad when people have Dilbert comics in their cubicles...Those probably aren't even funny anymore. just a harsh reminder.

[HopeHoops]

18. I just reread most of "Life in Cubeville".

[lastlib]

4. I'd love to be able to wake up on Monday and go to work....

...Unemployment **inhales FORCEFULLY!!**

[RebelOne]

5. Me too. I was forced into retirement in 2010 because of a layoff.

I was already past retirement age, so I decided it was the time to retire. Since I am home all the time, I hate weekends because there is nothing on TV except for reruns, so I welcome Monday. But I would still like to be going to work on Monday morning. The only thing I do not miss is the morning and afternoon traffic.

[bigwillq]

7. Hello

Welcome to DU!

[LeagueShadows24]

15. thanks!

good to be here

[Populist_Prole]

9. Yes and no: Monday is my "Saturday"

Really though, I don't at all dread going to work on "my monday" as work life is alright, and because I get to socialize with my friends there.

[HelenaHandbasket]

10. I Got Laid Off A Year Ago, So It Might Be Nice To Have A Job To Go To On Monday LOL

Job market sucks...anybody who has a decent job should leap from the bed grinning on Monday mornings!

[rad51]

11. I raise 2 types of livestock.

I haven't had a day off since 2006. I wouldn't change a thing.





edit: I'd change the weather, we need rain!

[Tobin S.]

12. I don't

And I'm going to college part time right now in an effort to eventually change things. There are men who are 70 years old working where I work. They may have been there for 30 years or better. They hate coming to work every single fucking day and they have for all of that time. I do too, and I don't want to end up to be like one of them.

[LeagueShadows24]

16. damn that's a long time

to be at a job you hate for 30 years...that's my worst nightmare.

[MiddleFingerMom]

17. What does a workaholic say?

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