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Reply #15 - Apr 24^th, 2016 at 5:02pm

Binary wrote on Apr 24^th, 2016 at 4:30pm:

You are quite lucky to have a job in your chosen field Ajax. Not to say you didn't work for it of course.

My advice isn't to dream about escape, but instead try to furnish your prison cell Cheesy

Not with material possessions, but with personal achievements.

9 to 5 can feel like a grind because along the way you aren't living your life. You're a slave to your routine.
It probably reads something like this: Wake up, go to work,
come home and unwind, dinner, sleep, repeat.

It's very hard to do this but somewhere between work and rest you need to do something that you feel is constructive.

Yes it takes effort, which is sapped by your work during the day. Yes it might mean waking up earlier before work.
Yes there are only 24 hours in the day and you'll have to squeeze every last drop out of them.

If you work on something that you can progress toward over time, for just an hour a day, eventually
you will be building something greater than yourself

This is essential. Some have a hobby for restoring cars, others workout at the gym.
You need something to devote yourself to that isn't your job.

We can dream, but most of us won't have a job that satisfies us completely, that is we do it just for the money.
But as humans we still search for that sense of satisfaction.

Yeah I know I'm still lucky to have a job especially at my age, but yeah the highlight is what I'm getting sick off, been doing it for more than three decades.

I love my job and what I do, I get immense satisfaction out of it, there's nothing else I can imagine myself doing to tell you the truth, I'm grateful to be still working.

I do have hobbies and interest out side of work which keep me busy during the week, but if I could break that cycle I would, maybe go part time nah that is no longer an option.

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Reply #16 - Apr 24^th, 2016 at 5:04pm

BatteriesNotIncluded wrote on Apr 24^th, 2016 at 4:43pm:

Engineers are the most varied pay group ever conceived: they aren't all einstein broseph!

Overseas they train harder because they are schooled harder from a younger age andthose trained here are only just, at the higher levels, deemed competent to even have a conversation!

Your batman suit must be fun when hallucinating on crack... although we all know how boring that is Cheesy

You sir are the biggest troll I have ever come across.

If you look up stupid in the dictionary your photo would be there, no need for words just your picture..... Grin

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1. There has never been a more serious assault on our standard of living than Anthropogenic Global Warming..Ajax
2. "One hour of freedom is worth more than 40 years of slavery & prison" Regas Feraeos

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Reply #17 - Apr 24^th, 2016 at 5:09pm

Ajax wrote on Apr 24^th, 2016 at 5:02pm:

Yeah I know I'm still lucky to have a job especially at my age, but yeah the highlight is what I'm getting sick off, been doing it for more than three decades.

I love my job and what I do, I get immense satisfaction out of it, there's nothing else I can imagine myself doing to tell you the truth, I'm grateful to be still working.

I do have hobbies and interest out side of work which keep me busy during the week, but if I could break that cycle I would, maybe go part time nah that is no longer an option.

You need something to look forward to that isn't work. Something that you're working toward.
You can't have job satisfaction if you're only working for money that goes nowhere.
Sounds like maybe you need a holiday to reset and put things back in perspective.

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John Smith Gold Member Online Australian Politics Posts: 77082 Gender:	Re: If you won.............no more work.....!!!! Reply #18 - Apr 24^th, 2016 at 5:35pm I would probably still do something ... buy a nice little earner that I can have fully managed ... turn up when I want to, stay home every other day.
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Reply #19 - Apr 24^th, 2016 at 5:41pm

Depends on how much you win. If its 1 or 2 million, then a decent house in middle suburb of Melbourne will probably leave you no change after that. And you will have to continue working, although without the stress of a mortgage.

If its 25 million on other hand.... nah, I would be too bored. I probably give all to my mum dad, brother.

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John Smith Gold Member Online Australian Politics Posts: 77082 Gender:	Re: If you won.............no more work.....!!!! Reply #20 - Apr 24^th, 2016 at 5:44pm tickleandrose wrote on Apr 24^th, 2016 at 5:41pm: I probably give all to my mum dad, brother. so many places to see, things to do ... I'd take me a good decade before I got bored
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Reply #21 - Apr 24^th, 2016 at 5:49pm

John Smith wrote on Apr 24^th, 2016 at 5:35pm:

I would probably still do something ... buy a nice little earner that I can have fully managed ... turn up when I want to, stay home every other day.

......so you are really just a latent filthy capitalist porker Smithy? Cheesy

You'd probably start voting Liberal too? Cheesy

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Reply #22 - Apr 24^th, 2016 at 5:50pm

Swagman wrote on Apr 24^th, 2016 at 5:49pm:

John Smith wrote on Apr 24^th, 2016 at 5:35pm:

I would probably still do something ... buy a nice little earner that I can have fully managed ... turn up when I want to, stay home every other day.

......so you are really just a latent filthy capitalist porker Smithy? Cheesy

You'd probably start voting Liberal too? Cheesy

who ever said I wasn't a capitalist Swag? Cheesy

I'll vote liberal when they start looking after the country rather than donors or themselves

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GordyL Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 4365 Hate Town Gender:	Re: If you won.............no more work.....!!!! Reply #23 - Apr 24^th, 2016 at 5:59pm 9 to 5 yikes. Haven't done that for a good while. Win Lotto, I'd never get bored. If it was about the 10m range a nicer house with a few more toys. I'm more into the toys that are also discipline so sailboats, kit-surf gear etc. and a bit more travel. I'd buy some obscenely expensive audio gear tho.
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Reply #24 - Apr 24^th, 2016 at 6:04pm

I'd put my millions to work somehow or other, and after enough years of growth become even richer.
Then I'd set about spreading my money to the poor, mainly through education programs.

Of course along the way I can still enjoy the fine restaurants etc.
I'd only keep a few mill for myself and future family. Too much money spoils people.

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Reply #25 - Apr 24^th, 2016 at 6:05pm

John Smith wrote on Apr 24^th, 2016 at 5:50pm:

Swagman wrote on Apr 24^th, 2016 at 5:49pm:

John Smith wrote on Apr 24^th, 2016 at 5:35pm:

I would probably still do something ... buy a nice little earner that I can have fully managed ... turn up when I want to, stay home every other day.

......so you are really just a latent filthy capitalist porker Smithy? Cheesy

You'd probably start voting Liberal too? Cheesy

who ever said I wasn't a capitalist Swag? Cheesy

I'll vote liberal when they start looking after the country rather than donors or themselves

What about the union pisspockeroty that goes on?

If Libs swung back to being centrists and Labor swung way way way left, who would you vote for?

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Reply #26 - Apr 24^th, 2016 at 6:06pm

Binary wrote on Apr 24^th, 2016 at 6:04pm:

I'd put my millions to work somehow or other, and after enough years of growth become even richer.
Then I'd set about spreading my money to the poor, mainly through education programs.

Of course along the way I can still enjoy the fine restaurants etc.
I'd only keep a few mill for myself and future family. Too much money spoils people.

If I was Gates rich, I'd fund secular education in the Middle East.

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Reply #27 - Apr 24^th, 2016 at 6:09pm

GordyL wrote on Apr 24^th, 2016 at 6:05pm:

What about the union pisspockeroty that goes on?

what about it? Am i bothered by unions? no. Pay people what the law requires you to and unions don't bother you. I've been in business for almost 20 yrs. Never had a problem with unions.

GordyL wrote on Apr 24^th, 2016 at 6:05pm:

If Libs swung back to being centrists and Labor swung way way way left, who would you vote for?

I will never vote for libs whilst they put donors and a few select first. If libs sort that out, and put forward policies that look after the country first, I've no problem voting for them.

I would never vote for an extreme left party. It's all about balance. A little to the left and a little to the right. To far either way and the scales tip over.

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Super Nova Gold Member Offline Posts: 3081 Everywhere Gender:	Re: If you won.............no more work.....!!!! Reply #28 - Apr 24^th, 2016 at 6:19pm I would definitely stop working for other people. Long holiday allocate 10% to a piss up the wall account invest 90%. Job, manage money and watch it grow
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Reply #29 - Apr 24^th, 2016 at 6:25pm

GordyL wrote on Apr 24^th, 2016 at 6:06pm:

Binary wrote on Apr 24^th, 2016 at 6:04pm:

I'd put my millions to work somehow or other, and after enough years of growth become even richer.
Then I'd set about spreading my money to the poor, mainly through education programs.

Of course along the way I can still enjoy the fine restaurants etc.
I'd only keep a few mill for myself and future family. Too much money spoils people.

If I was Gates rich, I'd fund secular education in the Middle East.

they say the worst thing the late Shah of Persia did was bring education to the people..well it was his wife from memory...of what is now called Iran.....

it will be the same in China the people are becoming more aware more educated to what else there is besides rice paddys.... it will come...and most people are fond of a dollar or three...it isnt hard to get used too.......this decadent life.

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