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In reply to the discussion: Why do we have to "Work so Hard" to make a living? [View all]jeff47
(26,549 posts)108. Just because you like it now doesn't mean you always will
I write software. It's been a life-long hobby. I wrote my first program when I was 8. So getting paid to do that was fantastic. At first. But there's two problems.
First, as you get older, your tastes change. What used to be fun is no longer fun.
Second, when you get paid for something you love to do, it quickly becomes a job and no longer something you love to do. Because you have to keep doing it even when you feel like doing something else. To illustrate this point, ask any chef what their favorite meal is. Their answer will be "Something cooked by someone else".
Lastly, you're a touch behind the time with Thanksgiving and Christmas. Work on those days went equal-opportunity quite a while ago for many families.
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Probably, because with time, we wouldn't allow psychopath's like Mitt Romney the
glowing
Jan 2012
#3
It seems like the ACTUAL hard workers get paid shit while the paper pushers get million $$$ bonuses.
FarLeftFist
Jan 2012
#2
Yes, hard workers. You know, the one's with the ACTUAL SKILLS to produce. The CEO is useless.
FarLeftFist
Jan 2012
#63
The working folk have to emulate the rich's work ethic so that they too can be rich.
Fuzz
Jan 2012
#6
HA! I am amazed at how many non-rich people buy into that bullshit, never realizing that the
SammyWinstonJack
Jan 2012
#75
"Hard work is good for you." Usually said by rich people who don't work.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Jan 2012
#8
Serious difference between complaining about the help and complaining about lazy slaves.
intheflow
Jan 2012
#86
Going into Civil War literacy rate among White Northern Males was estimated around 98%!
ieoeja
Jan 2012
#125
Because the pie is only so large and the official state secular religion that a few have
TheKentuckian
Jan 2012
#21
I'm sick of it too - and the harder we work it seems, the less our pay increases.
Initech
Jan 2012
#24
I know several people who have had jobs eliminated where they work,
woo me with science
Jan 2012
#34
It is not Americans who demand "stuff" - it is capitalism that overproduces and creates this culture
TBF
Jan 2012
#76
I live very simply now because I've never had a pot to piss in.. and this is after
glowing
Jan 2012
#83
And sadly, many places in rural areas in this country don't even have a cell signal.
glowing
Jan 2012
#84
I don't know if we work as hard as, say, the 12 year old slave laborers that produce chocolate
jtuck004
Jan 2012
#44
There are very little options of "choosing" where one works.. these days its seen
glowing
Jan 2012
#57
I feel the same way.. I just want to be able to work enough that it pays the bills,
glowing
Jan 2012
#62
"Why are so many who work hard not making a living?" would be a better question. n/t
gkhouston
Jan 2012
#56
That's a great question. I hope people start asking these politicians when they
glowing
Jan 2012
#60
They want us living in factories, like the workers at that awesome Foxconn village
redqueen
Jan 2012
#100
Almost every low wage manufacturing job where I have worked required a lot of hard work
Nikia
Jan 2012
#119
We all must work; pay all that money into Social Security; and drop dead young! n/t
Tom_Foolery
Jan 2012
#126
I remember reading a news article describing how much money "Business" was losing on Angry Birds
Evoman
Jan 2012
#128
I once had a Japanese assistant who was training to teach Japanese to foreigners
Lydia Leftcoast
Jan 2012
#129