How is it that most of us work 9-5 most of our life and feel it's okay/normal? I think it's the craziest thing on earth. So many people are obsessed w/their jobs. Their lives revolve around them. You can't do what you want when you want b/c of a job. You can't always fly home for the holidays or attend to someone that's sick, etc. We do not live lives of freedom. Pls don't get the wrong idea & think I'm against WORKING-I'm NOT, I'm against 9-5 type jobs that have you chained to a desk day after day. This world is so big and there's so much to do/see. We should have free time for the things we love to do. The sad part is, when most of us retire (if we even can) we'll be worried about money for housing and medical bills, etc. How is it that most people spend their entire lives as robots? Personally, I'm trying to think of creative ways to work/make a living that won't control every aspect of my life. I don't want my life to be in the hand's of another (boss, etc).
2006-10-11 06:33:16 · 12 answers · asked by Tara 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
I feel exactly the same way. I look around and see people that live the same daily existance with the same monotonous job, and I pity them. My greatest fear as a child was that I would grow up and end up in a boring meaningless mediocre job.
You and I are independent minded. Some people are meant to be leaders, and others are followers. It's a lot easier to follow, so most people choose that path. I have tried to be a follower many times, because the vast majority of people will try to instruct you on how to "fit in" and "go with the flow" and "just be yourself." But if you are a leader, you are not going to make it with the cookie cutter solutions and connect the dots methods. It's much harder to be a leader, but it is also much more of an intense and sometimes more rewarding life.
2006-10-11 06:40:55 · answer #1 · answered by martin h 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I totally understand you...
“Work hard and the world will respect you”. “Work hard and you can have anything you want”. Work really extra super hard and do nothing else but work and ignore your family and spend 14 hours a day at the office and make a lot of money in a year that you never have time to spend, sublimate your soul to the corporate machine and enjoy a profound problem and sporadic impotence and a nice mini-mansion you never spend any time in, and you and your shiny BMW will get into heaven.
Life doesn't have to be work, work, work, from the second you wake up to the second you go to bed.
We all have the same amount of time available each day. It's how we use it that is important, not how much we use. Life is too short and too precious to drag it out by working long.
2006-10-11 07:10:59 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ha, ha, har. Isn't it a shame about the free enterprize system you can only get paid for doing something, that someone else wants done, not what you want to do. It would be great if we all could just fritter around being creative. But then who would mow the lawn, grow our food, build our homes, pave the road, refine the gas we'd burn doing all that sight seeing.
I'd like to follow you around and see what businesses you support, the one's where the employees, can come and go as they please, or where one day their hours are 9 to 5 the next 12:00 to 2:00. Har har har.
Well, to accomplish your goal you are going to need to become independently wealthy. Or a government employee.
If I was a bureaucrat I'd hire you today you have the perfect attitude for a government worker.
2006-10-11 06:45:06 · answer #3 · answered by Roadkill 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Several reasons, chief among them being that it has become "acceptable by society".
Some don't realize that there are other opportunities out there, some are afraid to try, some just don't think about it.
Our society currently values the dollar more than the job. Notice how many occupations that were once considered vocations are now professions...(teachers, doctors, politicians). Try telling someone you want to be a wife and mother...I did, 35 years ago and learned to never again admit it at school (Shock! "That can be very rewarding, LOL Well, the pay is rotten...").
2006-10-11 06:40:19 · answer #4 · answered by tantiemeg 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because to some people, the ends justify the means. To support ones family, sometimes you have to sacrifice your own well-being, to be able to afford the pleasure and honor of providing for them. I don't look at my 9-5 job as a burden. It is what I do during the week so that I can afford to do the things I truly love to do. Spend time with my family going to visit beautifaul and wonderous places through out the world.
My job is not my life. My job is what allows me to have the life I want to live.
2006-10-11 06:37:46 · answer #5 · answered by Topher 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Free time sure, but where will the money come from to see that world if you don't work? People need money and unless they're born into wealth, win the lotto or are a genius then you're only option is to work 9-5...well that's what I think.
2006-10-11 06:36:30 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
This is why I work as an independent consultant. Some people need the consistent, reliable income and are afraid of losing their perceived stability. Hey -- if you gotta pay the bills... ya know?
2006-10-11 06:35:35 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
life is dull routines and there are bills No choice..
2006-10-11 06:41:21 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's called security.By the way, your "mini book" is waaaaay to long, nobody reads all that crap.
2006-10-11 06:34:59 · answer #9 · answered by don 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I'm not a robot......
and I dunno.
I do what I want to when I want to.
=)
2006-10-11 06:41:18 · answer #10 · answered by Stacy M 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋