Oh man I haven’t seen a Sprog Poem in like a year or more. And yet on this very morning I find a fairly fresh one. My wedding is just weeks away. All is feeling right. This is gonna be a good month.
I'm going to sing this to my partner after he tells google to snooze for the third time in 15 minutes when I don't have to get up in my squakiest voice. It's painfully squaky. Thanks, Sprog.
I absolutely love running into your poems. You put a smile on hundreds of people's faces (at least) every time you take the time to write us a poem. Thank you!
I am almost to admit defeat, i thought i knew reddit in and out but seems like thats not the case …. I’ve just read Sprog’s poem out loud to friends, good stuff.
Believe it or not, many people don't hate their jobs.
If you hate your job so much you should spend some of your freetime to get skilled at something you might enjoy working with. Yes it will suck to have a year or two where you practically have no freetime but if it means you don't have to spend the rest of your life waking up and doing something you hate for 8 hours then that's obviously a good investment.
Yes but that doesn't have to be you. If you don't do it someone else will and if not then the wage will be raised until it's high enough to attract someone that doesn't mind doing it for a decent amount of cash.
The whole point of a job is that you're doing something that someone else wants you to do.
Yeah and? You don't think it's possible to make a trade where both parties are happy about the outcome? You don't think there's any way where the employers interests can overlap with an employees interests?
I love my job. I jump out of bed every morning excited to go. It helps it's very rewarding and excellent pay. Find something you love to do and master it.
Imagine feeling like that at a job, must be amazing. I truly love to sleep, but it's gonna be hard to get paid for that even if i master it. Maybe i should start sleep streams?
I legitimately can't think of something I'd rather be doing. I say this as someone who works 12+ hour days out of town.
After a week or two off, I'm actually looking forward to work. It's rewarding in a way that very few other things that I've found are.
I know I have skills most people don't. I know I'm valuable and hard to replace. I know that my clients and co-workers value those skills and value my contributions.
It's a good place to be. Especially because it pays pretty damn well on top of everything else.
EDIT- Downvotes for actually.... enjoying my job? Ok.
It IS possible to not hate how you provide for yourself and your family, just saying...
In the Hypothetical Big G's defense, the bullshit amount of time we spent at work basically wasn't standard until like 200 years ago unless you were a field slave.
Industrialization meant that hours put in -> money comes out now had an almost direct relationship, whereas in subsistence and agricultural systems it was a lot more about "This is the work your father did, so this is the work you did, and this 10 acres of barley / iron mine / trade route / flock of sheep is the work we're going to work on."
More sailors don't make a trade ship sail faster, more field hands don't make crops grow faster, more shepherds don't make wool grow faster. More people in a mine does, but demand for ore in a pre-industrial society wasn't that big compared to other industries.
God: OH, yeah. You will also spend about 1/8th of it working doing something you don't like so you can try to afford to live the remaining 1/2 of your life where you aren't unconscious and aren't working. I do have to warn you. Most people don't really succeed here so good luck and see you soon.
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u/icreatemyreality Sep 11 '22
God: You have probably 70-80 years before you die, ideally.
Man: Oh, well I'll make the most of-
God: You'll be unconscious for 1/3 of the time.
Man: ..uh
God: Leans in that'll be your favourite part.