Why should anyone work?

Question

Just my personal belief, but I don't like any job Period. Life is a very short thing and I would like to enjoy this life but any job that I have had has been mind numbingly horrible. I just don't like working. I am ok with waking up whenever I feel like and spending my days doing things I actually enjoy doing like hiking, playing guitar, and hanging around with common aquaintances. To my knowledge there are alot of people that hate their jobs, but continue to do the work everyday regardless of the mental toll it takes on them. I find this to be completely asinine. I don't want to live off of others tax money and be a welfare case, I just want to be free of any obligation to a work force that I find to be ill suited to my needs, and a complete drain on the lives of our society. I want everyone to just one week to not even think about going and contributing to your job, unless you find your work to be absolutley meaningful and fulfilling. In conclusion if you have not already guessed, my

question is why should any of us work if there are better ways to live are lives, and if we all work together there could be be change to the system?

Answer 1

The change you seek is called Ideal or Pure communism.
From each according to his ability (and, hopefully, likes and talents) to each according to his need.

good luck with that!!! People have been ruining communism for decades, not to mention that you are seeking an ideal state of being; perfection. But this perfection must be created by imperfect beings.

Answer 2

My answer is not in favor, nor against work; rather, my answer is, only work for what you believe in. Unless I'm spefically interested in doing something I can relate to, I can be interested in, and can find long-term reasons to support that effort, my 'wiring' leads me against such practices. I really have to believe in what I'm doing as if it were something lasting and in my favor, otherwise I just can't keep doing it. I lose interest and when that happens I can no longer be an effective employee, nor can I fathom any useful reason to continue doing that work. On the other hand, if I find all the reasons I need to keep going, then I do that. Then and only then do I find work satisfying in a way that justifies doing that work.

People are raised to believe money is the only way anything gets done, which as you've guessed, is bullshit. Money is there to control people. It's all for power. Yes, there are definitely better ways of doing things, but you have to keep in mind that even a barter system --even a barter system based on doing favors for each other-- is just another form of money and control. A truly moneyless system requires people to work only when they really want to do so and although there are many people who actually do that, they are still in the grip of a majority which doesn't accept that way of life. In fact, even if the work is being done solely for a good determined by the employee, there is always the temptation for someone to take advantage of that work. It can still become a matter of work = control.

For society to become free, people will have to give up the temptation to control other people. And who am I to suggest such a society? After all, my response is a method of control over others. It's not only survival, but a method of gaining a confort zone, or at least the illusion of having created or increased such a zone. It's inherent in most, if not all humans. I don't see that changing anytime soon.

Answer 3

Work can take many forms. If you were paid to hike, play guitar, and hang around---as the years passed, you might become bored of it. Sure, jobs support people who aren't rich, but they also support your development in the world. Let's say there was a part of you that wanted to do police work. You try it. You like certain aspects of it, but not others. Finally, you decide it sucks, so you go on to something else---but you take something with you, which is the experience. If you pursue jobs that reflect the kinds of things you like to do, you'll develop as a human being. After 15 or 20 years trying different jobs, you might find that what you really enjoy is something unexpected. If you find a job that allows you to hike, that might lead you to do something to protect the woods you so enjoy. And you could find yourself as a lobbyist who is actually changing the world in a way that makes you happy, fulfills you, or whatever. Don't view a job simply as a way to make money, but as a way to explore what you like. There's a job for everyone. Don't pressure yourself to pick a career. Try things for a month, and stay with what you like.

Answer 4

This is a brilliant mode of thought. Life would be so much better if everybody spent their lives doing what they wanted to do. Everyone could just sit in a coffeeshop and... wait, nobody works there. Okay, so they could all spend a day playing guitar in the park--which would be an absolutely filthy park because nobody is there to clean it up. And it's not right say we could pick up after ourselves... There are those people who naturally don't cooperate in such a way. Those people who, if given the right to do what they want all the time, would take whatever they wanted from anybody else. Who's to stop them? The police are gone.
...I think you see where I'm going with this.

Answer 5

many people do not like to work and it is irresponsible on their part. As a society we do not consider work as a contribution. " Thank God is Friday" is a common expression and it means that work is a burden. We burden ourselves working for five days, at least, and enjoy only the weekend. We separate the week into the happy time and the painful time. But if we see work as a making better the life of others, work may become a joyful time.
This requires a lot of maturity and self discipline even in the way we think about things.
The way we perceive, interpret and label things affects the way we feel about them. A man who sweeps the street and regrets how he got into that sorry job is not so happy. Another man does the same job but instead of feeling sorry for himself, imagines the faces of people walking on that street feeling glad it is clean. The latter man enjoys what he does because people need him to clean the street. The latter man may even smile at people whaile working and may move his tools out of the way while others have a pleasant walk. I do not know about you but I enjoy what I do becasue it brings joys to others... and to myself.

Answer 6

There are disadvantages to your approach, but you'll discover them along the way.

Get paid for what you enjoy.

Hiking lessons. Guitar lessons. Start a social club. Combine all three of your interests. A tour company that features hiking opportunities around the country. Teach guitar in your community. Promote and organize local talent -- including yourself.

If you are genuine about not living off of others, these are things that you enjoy and that could provide you with an income.

Answer 7

The reason that I worked hard all my life, is that I, and my family developed a habit of eating. Also we tried sleeping out in the woods, but it was cold in the winter, and awfully buggy and wet in the summer.
I tried in every way to get a nice house and some food. After a while, we all realized that everybody wanted money for those things. The only way to get the necessary money was to earn it. So I ended up working like everybody else.
My suggestion to you is to bypass every effort to get something for nothing, and find a good job.

Answer 8

There's no such thing as not working. You can choose not to work for money, but we all must work in order to live -- even if it means working to maintain a shelter, carry water, and raise crops, hunt game, or otherwise collect food. It may not be the same as working for someone else -- or even working for money, for that matter -- but it's work nonetheless.

Answer 9

this is just begging for scammers to push their gigs. that beign said, the only reason this site exists is because of someone's work performed while at their job. freelancers would never get motivated. look at modern-day communes- their riddled with stealing and other nonsense because when it comes down to it, we live in a globalized market where you get back what you put in.

I live with pseudo hippie moochers, went to school with them and think like one but realize you must "plug away" if you want to play.

Answer 10

If the people who make you life easy, like the garbage man, the guy who plows the snow, the farmers all came to the same conclusion as you..you would change your thinking real quick.:)