As a self-identified slacker it felt a bit weird when I spotted the above picture from Humans of New York which read: I love working with my hands. You can actually feel the job being done. And at the end of the day, you can look at what you’ve accomplished. I can walk over this…
Credit to the antiwork Reddit for linking this. Granted, this isn’t too complicated (keep in mind SU is primarily marketed as a kids show) but I think there’s something to the whole “work has taken something from me that the money I get from it can’t buy back”.
I’ll be traveling a bit in the next week (or more) so don’t expect as frequent posts as I usually try to strive towards. Hope to see you at the book fair tomorrow!
One of the worst customers I had to deal with when I worked at Kohl’s wasn’t so just because they were a little annoying, there was nothing particularly egregious about who they were as a person. It also had to do with the time of the year (the holiday season) and the fact that they…
Wow, so that was kind of crazy. I am still not sure exactly what happened but suffice it to say there were some internal cording errors going on in the site and that knocked us out of orbit for a bunch of days. My host and I eventually had to turn to some outside help…
Recently, a friend of the site sent me an article that really put the issue of work into the realm of the personal. Nico Lang does an exceedingly good job summarizing a lot of the pitfalls of what being a workaholic can do. Originally, I wanted to republish this in its entirety but it’s almost…
(Edit: It has come to my attention from a kind reader that this link is now broken. It’s so much broken as it is blocked behind The Idler’s membership services. Sorry about this but sadly there’s nothing I can do!) This is just a short 10 minute interview with someone who engages in absurd political…
Mr. Kreider was gracious enough to allow me to reprint this in full. My many thanks to him for that and this excellent article. If you live in America in the 21st century you’ve probably had to listen to a lot of people tell you how busy they are. It’s become the default response when…