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Jobs are different from any other activity only in that you get paid for them. It seems absurd that you would feel a need for a job if money is not a motivation. "I need an activity I get paid for though I don't need to get paid." Surely pay is incidental. What I hear a lot is that people don't know what they would do without a job. Even if they win the lottery they are still certain they would work. That's not really surprising in that we have been conditioned throughout our lives to have places to go where we are told what to do - from elementary school to college to a job. We have become so accostumed to this that many can't imagine life without it. It's really a perversion of the human condition. Pedro De Heredia posted:Traveling definitely gets boring and you would run out of interesting places to visit. The difference between places isn't really that big, especially the more places you go to, and the impact of a place on you becomes increasingly minimal. Not really though. I mean if you check into a hotel and then take a tour of the local monuments then yes but there are more sensible ways to experience places and people. Bates fucked around with this message at 20:49 on Oct 18, 2014 |
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Pedro De Heredia posted:Enjoying taking part in hobbies doesn't mean you would like to spend your life doing these hobbies. Or that, in the absence of work and/or other tasks, you'd enjoy these hobbies the same way. Well we shouldn't generalize - some people probably can't function well without the structure of a job while others are perfectly happy to spend their lives building robots in their basement. Certainly we can find examples of both people who work a lot at the expense of all other things in their lives and others who work very little or not at all to pursue hobbies. One thing to note is that when people get bored without a job it might be because everybody else is working. Most activities are scheduled around the 9-5 work day and if you want to socialize you have a problem when there's nobody around. Obviously this wouldn't be an issue if fewer people worked. Honestly I find it exceedingly difficult to imagine I'd be bored doing different things with different people in different places everyday.
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Cicero posted:I'm a bit confused as to whether we're regarding work as literally just effort-for-pay, or are including substantially work-like pursuits (volunteering at a soup kitchen, writing a blog just for fun, gardening, etc.). When people talk about how work is character-building, I think they're usually talking about productive effort in general, not solely anything that produces income. Nobody (well, almost nobody) thinks of stay-at-home moms as lazy idlers. The OP said quote:Work in this case I will narrow to activities performed in the pursuit of monetary benefit. So it would probably be counter-productive to assume all kinds of other meanings of work in this thread.
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