"IF YOU DONT LIKE YOUR JOB QUIT"
lmao, only if life were so simple. I wish I was 16 again too.
I don't think it's intended to be taken as an order, or literally at all (I take that back, it [I]definitely[/I] isn't...)
Just acknowledging the essence of it is all that the authors probably care about
And the essence of it is to simply find your own purpose
[editline]17th March 2014[/editline]
Anyway, here's another interesting page- [url]http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/[/url]
[QUOTE=Trunk Monkay;44270800]"IF YOU DONT LIKE YOUR JOB QUIT"
lmao, only if life were so simple. I wish I was 16 again too.[/QUOTE]
Well, you [i]can[/i] always just quit your job.
But you wont because that's stupid.
[QUOTE=RobbL;44270483][IMG]http://i.imgur.com/bCDWzEe.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
I can't even get a job, never mind quit from one!
[QUOTE=Trunk Monkay;44270800]"IF YOU DONT LIKE YOUR JOB QUIT"
lmao, only if life were so simple. I wish I was 16 again too.[/QUOTE]
I actually did that, fuck telemarketing, found a new job same day.
I lucked the fuck out.
[QUOTE=kenji;44272181]I actually did that, fuck telemarketing, found a new job same day.
I lucked the fuck out.[/QUOTE]
yeah after 9 months of job hunting and finally finding one, I'm not going to quit my only source of income because of some Disney philosophical bullshit. Doing things you want to do doesn't mean you'll be successful in life or that you'll meet your soulmate. You may just end up broke, sick, and living under an overpass on the side of a highway.
[QUOTE=Trunk Monkay;44272288]yeah after 9 months of job hunting and finally finding one, I'm not going to quit my only source of income because of some Disney philosophical bullshit. Doing things you want to do doesn't mean you'll be successful in life or that you'll meet your soulmate. You may just end up broke, sick, and living under an overpass on the side of a highway.[/QUOTE]
No one's suggesting you quit your job then look for something better
You just keep one eye hopeful and vigilant for a hint of purpose while your other focuses on the sustainment of your day-to-day life
Doing something you aren't satisfied with is part of life, obviously. But being just part of life it also there's space for something more. Don't settle with shit.
What's your idea of success anyway?
[QUOTE=Trunk Monkay;44272288]You may just end up broke, sick, and living under an overpass on the side of a highway.[/QUOTE]
If living that way is the cost of being true to myself in every way possible, so be it. In fact, it sounds fun!
[QUOTE=Cheesedragon;44272388]In fact, it sounds fun![/QUOTE]
[sp]It's not.[/sp]
[QUOTE=Cheesedragon;44272388]If living that way is the cost of being true to myself in every way possible, so be it. In fact, it sounds fun![/QUOTE]
lmao, you don't live in a disney movie bud. "Being true to yourself" doesn't make you suddenly feel happier or a better person.
"I'm freezing to death having to sleep behind a Krispy Kreme in a cardboard box, but at least I've lived true to myself and lived out my dream of trying to read comic books for a living". Yeah, thats not how life works.
[QUOTE]“To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles…”
And indeed, that IS the question: whether to float with the tide, or to swim for a goal. It is a choice we must all make consciously or unconsciously at one time in our lives. So few people understand this! Think of any decision you’ve ever made which had a bearing on your future: I may be wrong, but I don’t see how it could have been anything but a choice however indirect — between the two things I’ve mentioned: the floating or the swimming.
[...]
The answer — and, in a sense, the tragedy of life — is that we seek to understand the goal and not the man. We set up a goal which demands of us certain things: and we do these things. We adjust to the demands of a concept which CANNOT be valid. When you were young, let us say that you wanted to be a fireman. I feel reasonably safe in saying that you no longer want to be a fireman. Why? Because your perspective has changed. It’s not the fireman who has changed, but you.
[...]
Every man is the sum total of his reactions to experience. As your experiences differ and multiply, you become a different man, and hence your perspective changes. This goes on and on. Every reaction is a learning process; every significant experience alters your perspective.
So it would seem foolish, would it not, to adjust our lives to the demands of a goal we see from a different angle every day? How could we ever hope to accomplish anything other than galloping neurosis?
The answer, then, must not deal with goals at all, or not with tangible goals, anyway. It would take reams of paper to develop this subject to fulfillment. God only knows how many books have been written on “the meaning of man” and that sort of thing, and god only knows how many people have pondered the subject. (I use the term “god only knows” purely as an expression.)* There’s very little sense in my trying to give it up to you in the proverbial nutshell, because I’m the first to admit my absolute lack of qualifications for reducing the meaning of life to one or two paragraphs.
[...]
To put our faith in tangible goals would seem to be, at best, unwise. So we do not strive to be firemen, we do not strive to be bankers, nor policemen, nor doctors. WE STRIVE TO BE OURSELVES.
But don’t misunderstand me. I don’t mean that we can’t BE firemen, bankers, or doctors—but that we must make the goal conform to the individual, rather than make the individual conform to the goal. In every man, heredity and environment have combined to produce a creature of certain abilities and desires—including a deeply ingrained need to function in such a way that his life will be MEANINGFUL. A man has to BE something; he has to matter.
As I see it then, the formula runs something like this: a man must choose a path which will let his ABILITIES function at maximum efficiency toward the gratification of his DESIRES. In doing this, he is fulfilling a need (giving himself identity by functioning in a set pattern toward a set goal) he avoids frustrating his potential (choosing a path which puts no limit on his self-development), and he avoids the terror of seeing his goal wilt or lose its charm as he draws closer to it (rather than bending himself to meet the demands of that which he seeks, he has bent his goal to conform to his own abilities and desires).
In short, he has not dedicated his life to reaching a pre-defined goal, but he has rather chosen a way of life he KNOWS he will enjoy. The goal is absolutely secondary: it is the functioning toward the goal which is important. And it seems almost ridiculous to say that a man MUST function in a pattern of his own choosing; for to let another man define your own goals is to give up one of the most meaningful aspects of life — the definitive act of will which makes a man an individual.
[...]
A man who procrastinates in his CHOOSING will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance. So if you now number yourself among the disenchanted, then you have no choice but to accept things as they are, or to seriously seek something else. But beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life. Decide how you want to live and then see what you can do to make a living WITHIN that way of life. But you say, “I don’t know where to look; I don’t know what to look for.”
And there’s the crux. Is it worth giving up what I have to look for something better? I don’t know—is it? Who can make that decision but you? But even by DECIDING TO LOOK, you go a long way toward making the choice.
[...]
I’m not trying to send you out “on the road” in search of Valhalla, but merely pointing out that it is not necessary to accept the choices handed down to you by life as you know it. There is more to it than that — no one HAS to do something he doesn’t want to do for the rest of his life.[/QUOTE]
-Hunter S. Thompson
[QUOTE=Eonart;44272413]
quitting over your dreams isnt justified on its own[/QUOTE]
Unless your dream is readily attainable once you quit your job, you're a god damn idiot if you expect to quit your retail job and suddenly be able to work as a game developer.
Recently put an ice tray into my freezer and just found this.
[IMG_thumb]http://i.imgur.com/aX8p7YA.jpg[/IMG_thumb]
How does that even happen
That's so hardcore
[QUOTE=seba079;44272875]How does that even happen
That's so hardcore[/QUOTE]
Mother.
Fucking.
Science.
[QUOTE=Rofl_copter;44270395]
the fuck does a disagree mean[/QUOTE]
The disagrees mean people wouldn't do that shit, and that it is 2spooky
[QUOTE=Rofl_copter;44270395]
[IMG]http://cdn.ebaumsworld.com/mediaFiles/picture/2315435/83949772.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
This looks unreal, where was it taken?
[QUOTE=Blazedol;44273096]This looks unreal, where was it taken?[/QUOTE]
Probably somewhere in China. The pollution in the cities is unreal. Semi-related: two Russian guys climbed Shanghai Tower, currently the tallest man made structure on earth. Someone made a thread for it a while back, iirc.
[video=youtube;gLDYtH1RH-U]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLDYtH1RH-U[/video]
You couldn't pay me enough to get me out on that crane, fuck that.
[QUOTE=1chains1;44273502][B]You couldn't pay me enough[/B] to get me out on that crane, fuck that.[/QUOTE]
you know damn well if someone came up to you and said "I'll give you 1 million dollars, tax free, to get out on the crane, and come back down." you'd fucking do it.
I know i would, im a greedy fucker.
[QUOTE=Tmaxx;44273753]you know damn well if someone came up to you and said "I'll give you 1 million dollars, tax free, to get out on the crane, and come back down." you'd fucking do it.
I know i would, im a greedy fucker.[/QUOTE]
ahahahahaha no you have to give me 1 billion.
[QUOTE=Tmaxx;44273753]you know damn well if someone came up to you and said "I'll give you 1 million dollars, tax free, to get out on the crane, and come back down." you'd fucking do it.
I know i would, im a greedy fucker.[/QUOTE]
Hell I'd do it for $15 or a gift card to a shitty fast food joint.
Still wouldnt do it unless I had a safety harness or a parachute and training on how to use said parachute.
I would never place a price on my own life and safety.
^ Yet everything we do is a cost-analysis on our lives. I wouldn't step outside if I didn't want to risk my life in some form.
EDIT: I think I came across a little harsh. What I meant is that we always place a cost on our lives. I like to rock climb and longboard - many people have died doing both, but I take that as an acceptable risk, hence it's a sliding scale of risk to reward. The Russians in the video have tons of practice doing what they do, so the reward is much higher proportionally to the risk, just as rock climbing is for me compared to somewhat who doesn't rock climb.
No that is over analyzed bs. Even if I staid in my house a plane could crash into it and kill me at any second, I could keel over from a heart attack or any other assortment of random deaths.
The difference here is if any of those were to occur I would have no control over them and thus cannot worry, but with the crane I have the conscious decision to either climb it at high risk to myself or avoid it.
Personally I would avoid it.
[QUOTE=Tmaxx;44273753]you know damn well if someone came up to you and said "I'll give you 1 million dollars, tax free, to get out on the crane, and come back down." you'd fucking do it.
I know i would, im a greedy fucker.[/QUOTE]
Never said I didn't have to wear a safety harness
Thought I'd share this, if you guys like neat simple wallpapers, you'll love this site.
[url]http://simpledesktops.com/[/url]
oh my god that is PERFECT
It's like the minimalist posters tag on tumblr but for wallpapers.
[QUOTE=AFewOstriches;44273363]Probably somewhere in China. The pollution in the cities is unreal. Semi-related: two Russian guys climbed Shanghai Tower, [b]currently the tallest man made structure on earth.[/b] Someone made a thread for it a while back, iirc.
[video=youtube;gLDYtH1RH-U]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLDYtH1RH-U[/video][/QUOTE]
Probably going to come across as some kind of an ass saying this, but the Burj Khalifa is over 800 meters, towering over the shangai tower by a long stretch.
[img]http://thangmay.org/images/stories/diagram-shanghai-tower-burj-dubai.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=Trunk Monkay;44272288]yeah after 9 months of job hunting and finally finding one, I'm not going to quit my only source of income because of some Disney philosophical bullshit. Doing things you want to do doesn't mean you'll be successful in life or that you'll meet your soulmate. You may just end up broke, sick, and living under an overpass on the side of a highway.[/QUOTE]
You've taken an oversimplified piece of advice, managed to misunderstand it, and then attempted to refute it by oversimplifying an already simple idea.
The quote was never fixated on 'quitting your job because you dont like it'. You're taking it literally when it's meant to be taken philosophically, broadly. The whole thing could be summarized with 'dont do stuff that make you unhappy'. Which is a given, it's as obvious as saying bad things are bad. It's a horribly silly quote, but it's noble and true in the message it attempted to convey.
Honestly if there's one thing that I dislike more than those feel-good quotes, it's people that prance around with pseudo-intellectual arguments trying desperately to refute that which was not meant to be refuted. Saying it's dumb for the sake of shitting on everyone's parade, essentially.
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