People Simply Empty Out (1986)

Re:People Simply Empty Out (1986) by Kecelij on Thursday August 15, 2019 @05:45PM (#20710007)

Working for yourself. Creating your own business, not being a slave to the system and being manipulated by media and the collective unconscious into thinking it's normal to work for someone, to sell your SELF, not your products (as it should be, in a rational society). Sadly, nothing about todays society is rational. But hey, if you wanna spend 1/3 of your life working a job you think is "OK", fucking have at it.

I would be ashamed to have written on my tombstone "worked 1/3 of his life as a sys admin".

There is no meaning in that. Just an empty job to have money, for what? For more stuff? To teach your children to do the same? Keeping materialistic corporations afloat with me taking care of the servers and stuff.

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Re:People Simply Empty Out (1986) by paxys on Thursday August 15, 2019 @05:58PM (#20710112)

If you create your own business are you going to hire people to work for you 9-5?

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Re:People Simply Empty Out (1986) by Kecelij on Thursday August 15, 2019 @06:00PM (#20710132)

I would never do that. I am a jack of all trades and I intend to keep it that way. One man business.

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Re:People Simply Empty Out (1986) by paxys on Thursday August 15, 2019 @06:26PM (#20710316)

If you are making it work for yourself then congratulations, but this is pretty unrealistic advice for almost everyone else.

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Re:People Simply Empty Out (1986) by endemic on Thursday August 15, 2019 @06:15PM (#20710230)

You’re still beholden to the people who pay for your products/services.

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Re:People Simply Empty Out (1986) by kentrado on Friday August 16, 2019 @02:26AM (#20712660)

You will notice the different though. Those people only care about the end product, you can work however you like to get there. There's freedom in there.

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Re:People Simply Empty Out (1986) by odonnellryan on Thursday August 15, 2019 @08:37PM (#20711107)

If you have your own business you'll definitely work 9-5 but you'll also probably work 5-9 ;)

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