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is it reasonable to expect happiness without putting in the hours? a good deal of the things i'm not too keen about about re: myself seem (when i'm having a reasonably good day) alterable. but not without time, thought, the acceptance of greater personal responsibility (emotional and otherwise), y'know HARD WORK. do i still get to whinge when i'd sooner listen to an autechre album than deal with some of my more obviously dysfunctional aspects? do we all deserve happiness? even the lazy and the scared? (if nothing else i'm hoping this thread'll prompt a dave q post).

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 19:50 (twenty-two years ago)

sometimes its not about hard work at all, but coasting

― gareth (gareth), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 19:57 (twenty-two years ago)

sometimes coasting cancels out all hard work.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 19:58 (twenty-two years ago)

I try to surround myself with things/people that make me happy. It's not that hard. Then you just lay around and soak it up.

― Sarah McLUsky (coco), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 19:59 (twenty-two years ago)

it feels like i've been coasting since day one!

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 20:03 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah,

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 20:07 (twenty-two years ago)

none of us deserves happiness. you should all be as miserable as i am! *shoots self, leaves rest of world to continue on in agony*

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 20:08 (twenty-two years ago)

thank god.

anyway mitch is this at all related to my "sorry sir, but work is more responsibility than i am looking for right now" from the other day?

― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 20:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Er, I've been typing all sorts of whimsical bullshit, the way I see happiness is it's just something that happens, and it comes and go, as there are loads of things that can make people happy. I think you should "work hard" if you want a feeling of achievement and satisfaction, it's a good thing but not always resulting in happiness. No quantity theory of happiness.

So, yes I think it's quite possible to feel happy without putting in the work, and you shouldn't feel bad about it.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 20:17 (twenty-two years ago)

jess: well, i guess that's part of it. i just feel like i'm shirking responsibility at every opportunity. i'm lucky (read: made to feel like everything about me is in the process of atrophying) in that i'm able to maintain a basic level of comfort while doing, well, not much of anything (yes, a 20 yr old parental leech with good marks, 3 years of a fine arts degree under the belt and no real job). i'm not sure if i'm unhappy, maybe just on the gentlest, cushiest, self-pityingly internet-postiest downward spiral ever - the satisfaction i'm getting from the things i usually get satisfaction from seems more fleeting than it's been in ages. but how do i whine in good faith when i can see the way(s) out? you think a job/girlfriend would do you good? then do something dammit! make some phonecalls! see some people! take risks! "proactivity" is one of those kneejerk cynical response words you see in self help pamphlets, but..you know..try it!

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 20:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Have you considered working for Bliss?

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 20:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Bliss

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 20:41 (twenty-two years ago)

not this?

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 20:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Either is good.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 20:44 (twenty-two years ago)

or this?

http://www.getblissmagazine.com/about.html

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 20:47 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm going to bed now.

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 20:49 (twenty-two years ago)

http://images.google.ca/imgres?imgurl=www.attachmentscatalog.com/images/products/bliss.gif&imgrefurl=http://www.attachmentscatalog.com/gifts/photos.html&h=145&w=221&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dbliss%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26sa%3DG

― dyson (dyson), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 21:50 (twenty-two years ago)

hmmm
i thought i had found bliss
i guess i was wrong
i shouldn't have been so naive to think i could've just googled it

― dyson (dyson), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 21:52 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.attachmentscatalog.com/images/products/bliss.gif

― dyson (dyson), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 21:52 (twenty-two years ago)

when i read that first line of the thread i did think you might be referring to job/gf type stuff.
''is it reasonable to expect happiness without putting in the hours?''

''you think a job/girlfriend would do you good? then do something dammit! make some phonecalls! see some people! take risks! "proactivity" is one of those kneejerk cynical response words you see in self help pamphlets, but..you know..try it!''

To 'get things', to make them happen, you just have to take chances, take the risk of failing to get them (that would eb some sort of success). Things will get more interesting, if nothing else.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 10:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Will work for bliss.

― Cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 16:19 (twenty-two years ago)

ten years pass...

so this is the closest thing i could find to a thread about satisfaction at work. this seems as good a place as any to pick up the discussion some of us were having over on 'whats happening'. forgive me for quoting myself. i was recently called on the carpet at work and...

the stuff i was being called on the carpet for amount to "you're clearly not looking at what you're doing"-level mistakes on data monkey work that i couldn't give less of a shit about if i tried. i'm great at the 60% of my job that actually activates my brain. when i can't sustain the interest in the dues-paying monkey work to pay attention to what's in front of me, i make dumb mistakes. it's a fact, and i can't argue it. there are other factors in play here--sleep habits, longer-term attention & biochemical health probs--but at base it comes down to the fact that *i don't care* about the boring part of my job at all, and i wind up doing it poorly as a result.
the dilemma i'm on the horns of now is--'knuckle down and pay my goddamn dues like a young man should?' or 'start looking for somewhere to be that this kind of monkey work is minimized.' they've told me time and again that they feel lucky to have me around to do The Interesting Stuff, because i've got an aptitude for it. now the threat is 'shape up or you don't get to do any more Interesting Stuff.'
so should i shape up on the stuff i suck at or should i pack up and go somewhere that would pay me more to work on a higher ratio of interesting:boring stuff? idk.
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