Nietzsche

"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself" - Friedrich Nietzsche

Think.

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"Work is clearly not healthy for individuals and the products it produces are no longer healthy for the planet.
Yet governments everywhere pursue policies aimed at encouraging more jobs... Despite the dysfuntion of the work ethic it continues to be promoted and praised, accepted and acquiesced to.
It is one of the least challenged aspects of industrial culture."

- Sharon Beder,
Selling the Work Ethic: From Puritan Pulpit to Corporate PR

Commitment Phobia

I worked at this place for 7 years, hoping to get permanent ( "yuh permanent yet?" was a normal greeting was)

When The 'We are glad to offer you a permanent post" letter came instead of my "Your contract has been extended for the next 5 months" letter, I freaked. Did not tell my boss, who has been fighting tooth and nail for my 'permanency'. Forgot the letter and found it in my desk drawer, about 3 weeks later.

I'd had 2 weeks to 'respond', since the two weeks were gone, I told my boss about it. He stood over me, until I signed it, then stamped it 2 weeks earlier, signed it himself, wrote URGENT in his big authoritative print, then called and had it ferried to HR.

14 months later I quit.

Got Cubicle?

We don’t have a lot of time on this earth. We weren’t meant to spend it this way! Human beings were not meant to sit in little cubicles staring at computer screens all day. Filling out forms and listening to eight different bosses drone on about mission statements. – Office Space 1999

There’s no shame in working hard on something satisfying. – like a piece of music, or to help another out of their pain. Maybe ‘work’ is the wrong word for what we’re talking about here – maybe it’s capitalism or office jobs or working-to-pay-for-consuming? Whatever you call it, great resource – Tommy Paine 2008