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tonguegina · 01-19-2009, 07:36 PM

You're right to a point. If I were getting paid $100K to pour someone's coffee, I would think it's a pretty sweet gig. But I wouldn't complain about it when it sucked and I wouldn't gloat about it when it was good. I mean, come on. As nice as that job sounds, let's call a spade a spade, it doesn't make me any more "valuable" of a person than I am now. Would you really think yourself more important or valuable because you poured the president's coffee?

I guess I've always seen money as a burden. I work when I have to because I have to, but I kind of just want to be left alone. It's not my dream to have millions of dollars. My gold toilet would still just be a place to shit and in a number of years down the road I'm going to die. What is all of that money and possessions going to do for me then?

I just feel like work gets in the way of life. Life's too short to dedicate to a profession that nobody cares about, which for me is pretty much all professions. It's about the experiences you have. I know you're thinking, "You live in Indy, what's so great about that." Well, it's a hell of a lot better than what I had at this time last year. I'm having a blast right now. I know I joked that the only thing getting me up in the morning is to check the mail, but that's bull shit. I go out more nights than I don't, have dinner with friends, order a scotch or a good beer...I want more adventurous experiences in the future; simple things like rock climbing to bigger things like places I'd like to go, I have a friend in Korea I'd like to visit, hell even just to head down to Houston for the weekend to visit UB, but money gets in the way again.

This hardly makes any sense even to me, but I'm at a point in my life where I'm not sure where I'm going or how I got there. Maybe that makes me appreciate the journey more, maybe I'm just a hippie among capitalists. Either way, I think work is one of the least important things you do with your life (unless it's something that you're passionate about, then lucky you), and I don't think it should be the defining factor.

01-19-2009, 07:36 PM	#38 (permalink)
tonguegina I like dirt. Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Indianapolis Posts: 2,861 Internets: 2790	You're right to a point. If I were getting paid $100K to pour someone's coffee, I would think it's a pretty sweet gig. But I wouldn't complain about it when it sucked and I wouldn't gloat about it when it was good. I mean, come on. As nice as that job sounds, let's call a spade a spade, it doesn't make me any more "valuable" of a person than I am now. Would you really think yourself more important or valuable because you poured the president's coffee? I guess I've always seen money as a burden. I work when I have to because I have to, but I kind of just want to be left alone. It's not my dream to have millions of dollars. My gold toilet would still just be a place to shit and in a number of years down the road I'm going to die. What is all of that money and possessions going to do for me then? I just feel like work gets in the way of life. Life's too short to dedicate to a profession that nobody cares about, which for me is pretty much all professions. It's about the experiences you have. I know you're thinking, "You live in Indy, what's so great about that." Well, it's a hell of a lot better than what I had at this time last year. I'm having a blast right now. I know I joked that the only thing getting me up in the morning is to check the mail, but that's bull shit. I go out more nights than I don't, have dinner with friends, order a scotch or a good beer...I want more adventurous experiences in the future; simple things like rock climbing to bigger things like places I'd like to go, I have a friend in Korea I'd like to visit, hell even just to head down to Houston for the weekend to visit UB, but money gets in the way again. This hardly makes any sense even to me, but I'm at a point in my life where I'm not sure where I'm going or how I got there. Maybe that makes me appreciate the journey more, maybe I'm just a hippie among capitalists. Either way, I think work is one of the least important things you do with your life (unless it's something that you're passionate about, then lucky you), and I don't think it should be the defining factor.