14. Januar 2004, 22:16

About work

In my opinion, work prevents us to do and experience the really important things in life. My theory: "Work is just wasted precious life-time!"

I am sure, over 90 percent of all workers are unhappy with their work. Nobody likes to work. There are only very, very rare opportunities, that people are enjoying their work, because they had the chance to make their hobbies a work or really work in a business, they are interested in. It is a matter of fact, that standing on the assembly line or sitting in front of a PC with stupid, boring charts and numbers are absolutely not very enjoyable.

You get up already before sunrise, still sleepy, like a robot. And you come back, at late the day, exhausted and tired. Just happy to fall asleep in front of the TV. This is not, what I would call life!

Well, yes, you might have got more money in your pockets...but what for? When you are home at last, then you are not in the mood any more to go to cinema, to go to caf? or even to read a book. You have just enough concentration to follow silly, dumb TV-reality-container-shows. No, thank you, I dont want that!

And I know, what I am speaking of. I have done this two and one year. And I see my father and my sister's husband. They have been going to work for years, and even for decades. My father fall asleep already when he is sitting on a chair. He has worked in his factory for almost fifty years. But what for? He hasn't become rich. And I don't think, he become happy in it - right the contrary. And my sister's husband: working in three shifts. It happens mostly once a year, that he goes to cinema, to a concert. Has he more money? Don't know. Maybe. But some years ago, even I had to lent them some money for a holiday-trip with the family. Is he happy? I really doubt it.

So, it always comes to that question - How to become happy, what means happiness. Well, I have a different view about happiness. This is, at any case, not!

Well, yes, I also would like to have more money. Mainly to be able to invite foreign friends to me and to be able to travel. And I am absolutely certain, that I have to face this problem someday, soon, now. But I wouldn't mind, if it would wait some days. I am absolutely not keen to lose my independence, to lose my freedom. And I expect to work for not much more money, that I have now without working. Also, because I haven't really learnt anything serious. I just hope to find a job with pleasant colleagues. This would be the most important - not to work with assholes, idiots, hypocrites. But often you dont have such luck.

So, that's my thoughts on work, my point of view. Am I not right?

By the way, what is this life? What does it mean?


"...and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."
Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854)