How do you find motivation to sell your life for peanuts?

Posted by kphild on Sunday December 22, 2013 @12:29PM
from the self-post dept.

Many of you work for peanuts. How do you rationalize that? What do you do to be able to look into the mirror every morning? Is an hour of your life really worth 50 bucks?

Not trying to be rude, just trying to force myself to work on a project.

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Re:How do you find motivation to sell your life for peanuts? by kphild on Sunday December 22, 2013 @12:40PM (#6950920)

Try changing your perspective. See each 50 bucks as an opportunity to do something of benefit to you, rather than focusing on wasted time of life.

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Re:How do you find motivation to sell your life for peanuts? by Avalaxy on Sunday December 22, 2013 @01:48PM (#6951182)

Wow, I don't even know where to start. This OP is so insanely arrogant and ignorant, I can't even find the words to describe it.

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Re:How do you find motivation to sell your life for peanuts? by wturner on Sunday December 22, 2013 @01:51PM (#6951200)

I actually got a good laugh out of it personally.It sounds like something an honest kid would ask. Refreshing.

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Re:How do you find motivation to sell your life for peanuts? by krapp on Sunday December 22, 2013 @01:51PM (#6951198)

50 bucks an hour doing something I like is a lot better than nothing.

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Re:How do you find motivation to sell your life for peanuts? by sharemywin on Sunday December 22, 2013 @02:11PM (#6951284)

go work in foodservice for a little perspective.

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Re:How do you find motivation to sell your life for peanuts? by informatimago on Sunday December 22, 2013 @02:17PM (#6951306)

But that's exactly the point! We're not working in foodservice. We have much better competencies. Less than one million Americans have the abilities required to be programmers. (That's less than 0.5% of the population!)

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