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| Monsieur |
Posted - 09/17/2004 : 12:00:22
It sounds mathematically impossible, but last week, I worked for 106 hours.
Next week, it will probably be the same story.
I don't see my friends anymore, I don't even think about getting myself a girlfriend again.
It's Friday evening and I won't be going out because I'm too tired.
I am 24 and I am thinking about this masochist choice of life I made last year.
I have some pictures of myself on my desk where I look very happy and healthy and I don't recognize myself anymore.
It's really insane.
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| betty |
Posted - 10/15/2004 : 16:08:30
wow.
worthy work does not always have kind time parameters, but how dear that you touched base here.
love,
betty
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| VoVat |
Posted - 09/27/2004 : 19:02:31
I don't think I've EVER had a life.
"Signature quotes are so lame." --Nathan |
| Cheeseman1000 |
Posted - 09/26/2004 : 14:37:08
I thought I had a straightforward 9-5, so what do they do? Throw in a Sunday. I was going to revolt, but I'm pretty revolting already (ba-boom!).
It was all made worthwhile, however, by my lovely supervisor - I was practicing my subtle leching, I wonder how much it was noticed.
"You ever seen a man say goodbye to a shoe?"
"Yes, once..." |
| VoVat |
Posted - 09/22/2004 : 17:26:07
quote:
plus, he won't let you drink beer at his pad.
But the rivers flow with wine!
Or am I thinking of the Elysian Fields?
"Signature quotes are so lame." --Nathan |
| n/a |
Posted - 09/22/2004 : 11:41:05
Gigi is in the good way! Maria likes it very much too...and I guess that´s Coachella! I love that one,and at the begging that HI! is something! |
| kathryn |
Posted - 09/22/2004 : 11:35:31
Surfer Rita, I got your email and I will reply with lots of questions about all those songs.
(Was that Coachella? Velouria ROCKS!!!!!!! My daughter keeps asking me to
put it on and the first time we played it she asked, "Mommy, why is that lady talking
before Frank sings?" You know how Kim talks to the audience before the guitar kicks in?)
 I still believe in the excellent joy of the Frank |
| n/a |
Posted - 09/22/2004 : 11:16:31
Thank you dear Kathryn! When I get to sell for the whole world you will all now more about me...
Kathryn, did you received my email today? My computer is a completly mess! |
| kathryn |
Posted - 09/22/2004 : 11:13:00
Surfer Rita's stuff looks great from what I've seen online, people!
I still believe in the excellent joy of the Frank |
| n/a |
Posted - 09/21/2004 : 14:40:32
quote:
Originally posted by cassandra is
quote:
Originally posted by rita
I´m a designer (contemporany objects for the house), I work with my husband and we have our own label...so you can see that I always have a lot of work to do! But I like it very much!
Hey Rita, what's the name of your label?
pas de bras pas de chocolat
I´ve sold to Paris once, a shop called that only sells lamps of new designers. And I love my job! |
| Homers_pet_monkey |
Posted - 09/21/2004 : 14:37:01
Carolynanna, that's like shouting 'great song alert' at a Pixies concert.
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| Carolynanna |
Posted - 09/21/2004 : 14:28:09
Nerd alert!
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"The things that will destroy us are: politics without principle; pleasure without conscience; wealth without work; knowledge without character; business without morality; science without humanity,
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| Cheeseman1000 |
Posted - 09/21/2004 : 14:26:47
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work to live, don't live to work
Sounds like you have a backwards-bending supply curve, PsychicTwin.
 So, I finally got my X-Wing |
| floop |
Posted - 09/21/2004 : 14:23:54
his collection is pretty tame. all PG - PG13 stuff.
i guarantee you he doesn't have the GOODFELLAS special edition or the EXORCIST re-release.
plus, he won't let you drink beer at his pad.
ist es möglich für ein quesadilla skrotum zu lecken? beim sprechen der quesadillas von LBF, ja. ja in der tatheheheheheheehehee! |
| Homers_pet_monkey |
Posted - 09/21/2004 : 12:51:11
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Originally posted by floop
i doubt the big man has dolby digital 5.1 surrounds.
plus, his collection isn't as cool.
ist es möglich für ein quesadilla skrotum zu lecken? beim sprechen der quesadillas von LBF, ja. ja in der tatheheheheheheehehee!
He has everything you idiot! He even has films that haven't been made yet. And he projects them onto clouds. You can't do that.
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| VoVat |
Posted - 09/20/2004 : 18:29:17
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I'll just borrow the big man's.
You mean Osiris?
"Signature quotes are so lame." --Nathan |
| PsychicTwin |
Posted - 09/20/2004 : 10:02:18
work to live
don't live to work
the hours of your day on this earth are far more precious than any kind of high salary |
| cassandra is |
Posted - 09/20/2004 : 08:20:11
quote:
Originally posted by rita
I´m a designer (contemporarany objects for the house), I work with my husband and we have a own label...so you can see that I always have a lot of work to do! But I like it very much!
Hey Rita, what's the name of your label?
pas de bras pas de chocolat |
| kathryn |
Posted - 09/20/2004 : 07:54:22
floop, you crack me up, man.
monsieur, i used to have a job like that and i loved it and i prided myself on not having a life. do you love your job? that is the question! sounds like right now you are not.
I still believe in the excellent joy of the Frank |
| n/a |
Posted - 09/20/2004 : 07:32:02
I'm now a student again, so long 60 hour weeks, hello earning little spending little living off boiled veg cheap fags and beer
the room smelled like cupids gym
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| floop |
Posted - 09/19/2004 : 17:59:03
i doubt the big man has dolby digital 5.1 surrounds.
plus, his collection isn't as cool.
ist es möglich für ein quesadilla skrotum zu lecken? beim sprechen der quesadillas von LBF, ja. ja in der tatheheheheheheehehee! |
| SpudBoy |
Posted - 09/19/2004 : 15:20:39
I am spending the rest of today making miniscule model representations of everything in my house. Getting the track credits done on plastociene CDs at 1/30 scale is a bitch, but at least I'll be able to listen to obscure limited edition singles in the afterlife.
*festoon* |
| Homers_pet_monkey |
Posted - 09/19/2004 : 13:31:10
I'll just borrow the big man's.
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| floop |
Posted - 09/19/2004 : 10:28:19
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Originally posted by Homers_pet_monkey
No, no, no. Look take it with you if you like, see if I care. You won't be able to do anything with it.
don't ask to borrow my dvd player in the afterlife
ist es möglich für ein quesadilla skrotum zu lecken? beim sprechen der quesadillas von LBF, ja. ja in der tatheheheheheheehehee! |
| Homers_pet_monkey |
Posted - 09/19/2004 : 04:04:58
No, no, no. Look take it with you if you like, see if I care. You won't be able to do anything with it.
"All the old paintings on the tombs
They do the sand dance don't you know
If they move too quick (oh whey oh)
They're falling down like a domino"
Damn it Apl, now it's stuck!
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| mun chien andalusia |
Posted - 09/19/2004 : 03:21:03
my great grandmother was living in egypt, though she was greek. does this count?
 join the cult of errol\and you can have a beer\without having to quit smoking
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| apl4eris |
Posted - 09/18/2004 : 18:23:08
Sometimes I walk like an Egyptian. |
| floop |
Posted - 09/18/2004 : 18:21:07
I'm part Egyptian.
ist es möglich für ein quesadilla skrotum zu lecken? beim sprechen der quesadillas von LBF, ja. ja in der tatheheheheheheehehee! |
| Homers_pet_monkey |
Posted - 09/18/2004 : 14:44:10
Anyone here Egyptian?
Didn't think so.
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| floop |
Posted - 09/18/2004 : 12:32:42
you can if you're Egyptian
ist es möglich für ein quesadilla skrotum zu lecken? beim sprechen der quesadillas von LBF, ja. ja in der tatheheheheheheehehee! |
| Homers_pet_monkey |
Posted - 09/18/2004 : 09:47:29
You can't take it with you, as they say.
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| n/a |
Posted - 09/18/2004 : 08:09:58
I´m a designer (contemporarany objects for the house), I work with my husband and we have a own label...so you can see that I always have a lot of work to do! But I like it very much! |
| Newo |
Posted - 09/18/2004 : 06:36:17
I´m a writer and musician, HPM, and if I work 106 hours it´ll be because I want to. But don´t hold your breath.
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Jódete, tío,
Que se joda tu hermana,
Que se joda tu hermano,
Que se joda tu madre,
Que se joda tu tía,
¡Porque soy policia!
Que se jodas, currante,
Que se joda tu perro,
Que se joda tu hijo,
Que se joda tu amante,
No me pidas razónes,
Soy el Hombre ¡cojones! |
| benji |
Posted - 09/18/2004 : 04:03:00
man, 106 hours.
some of the guys i work with do 80-90 hours weeks week in week out, and they only thing that keeps them going is the money.
i personally couldn't do that just for the sake of working, but doing something you love makes it a totally different ballgame.
in a few months time, i'm moving a new country to start a job working 12 hours a day, 7 days a week, and i can't wait cause it's doing something i love, and something that i trained for 7 years to do. at presnt i work for 40 hours doing something i don't love and i hate every minute of it.
the only other time i worked those kinda hours was working on a dairy farm when i was younger, and it was the most rewarding experience i have ever had....working 14 hour days, i was totally at piece with myself.
so i can understand where you guys are coming from, and while i don't have any advice to give, it's something to know you ain't alone....
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| VoVat |
Posted - 09/17/2004 : 21:12:51
I could never work the insane hours some people here do. I mean, if you're working that much, when do you get a chance to spend all the money you make? On the other hand, I certainly wouldn't mind working more hours than the part-time ones I do now. Or getting paid a lot more than I do. Either way would work.
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| Cheeseman1000 |
Posted - 09/17/2004 : 16:37:51
I came up through the comparatively creative educational route, and never imagined I'd end up in a nice, relaxed 9-5 office job. Yet that's exactly the situation I'm in, and I love it. I love the security of a proper job, the ease of planning your life round, the guaranteed income. I'm also dead happy in the office cos everybody's cool and the job is fine, and I can do a bit of creative stuff in my spare time.
So its not neccessarily a depressing drudge. If you can find a decent job then its fine. I'm OK for money and everything.
I'm not normally very good for advice at this sort of thing, but I'd agree with general sentiment here - surely its not worth it. Money's not the 'be all and end all of everything', and you should take your chance to have fun while you're young.
So, I finally got my X-Wing |
