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Do you love your job, like your job, tolerate your job or hate your job?

If the latter is your choice, what would you like to do?
 
I am retired but I always worked to live, never the reverse. Work was the necessary evil and everybody's got to be somewhere and everybody I knew was at work so I figured I couldn't beat them, especially being penniless, so I joined them. I did what I thought I was supposed to do.

I look back with regret that I didn't stick with the guitar and become a musician or a writer. I've had encouragement the last 20 years to write and wish I had the confidence in myself that others had in me to pursue that and I still kick the idea around in my head. My problem is adult ADD and a stream of consciousness that at times can be a river that I am just getting carried away on.
 
I am retired but I always worked to live, never the reverse. Work was the necessary evil and everybody's got to be somewhere and everybody I knew was at work so I figured I couldn't beat them, especially being penniless, so I joined them. I did what I thought I was supposed to do.

I look back with regret that I didn't stick with the guitar and become a musician or a writer. I've had encouragement the last 20 years to write and wish I had the confidence in myself that others had in me to pursue that and I still kick the idea around in my head. My problem is adult ADD and a stream of consciousness that at times can be a river that I am just getting carried away on.
Much thanks and this is way out there , but if you had the right kind of smoke , just maybe you might find the right place to compose. You guys could not stand me if I didn't indulge sometimes. promise. ADD hypertension is real. focus is a real place.
 
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Much thanks and this is way out there , but if you had the right kind of smoke , just maybe you might find the right place to compose. You guys could not stand me if I didn't indulge sometimes. promise. ADD hypertension is real. focus is a real place.
Wow, so how long has it been since you quit?:muttley:
 
For the most part i'm Lucky.. I love selling. I have a boss that's well never mind, I'm good.
 
Like Coach, I am retired. That being said, I loved my job and, unlike Coach, I definitely fell into the category of "living to work".

That construct changed when I remarried and discovered that 'working to live' was far better.

As far as dream jobs, I work part-time as a scuba diving instructor, teaching everything from entry level to other instructors. I can work as much or as little as I want and, at any point, walk away when I need to. Great place to be.
 
Much thanks and this is way out there , but if you had the right kind of smoke , just maybe you might find the right place to compose. You guys could not stand me if I didn't indulge sometimes. promise. ADD hypertension is real. focus is a real place.
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One day I'm going to come up with one of those (dream jobs). :D I couldn't even start the fantasy yet alone pursue it... "You'll figure out something you love..well probably not, but you do have to get a job to pay your bills" Which is 100% fine and more accurate for most.

My HS guidance counselor resumes keep being returned to me:laugh:
 
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My HS guidance counselor resumes keep being returned to me:laugh:
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One day I'm going to come up with one of those (dream jobs). :D I couldn't even start the fantasy yet alone pursue it... "You'll figure out something you love..well probably not, but you do have to get a job to pay your bills" Which is 100% fine and more accurate for most.

My HS guidance counselor resumes keep being returned to me:laugh:
My dream job is airbrushing the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Models. It's only once a year, but then there are the Playboy Mansion parties for some side work....and front work...and back work.
 
Used to love it, then liked it and now tolerate it...I’ve been in a funk for a couple of years and don’t know if I’ll ever come out of it doing the same job. There’s so many other things I’d like to do but unfortunately I’m not smart enough and/or qualified to do them or I’m too old (astronaut, fighter pilot, archaeologist, astronomer, musician, author would be awesome!)

Realistically I’ll probably retire in about 15 years doing what I’m doing now or retire in 8, move off to the mountains and find some odd job where I’ll make 1/8th the money I do now and probably work more but maybe be more happy? Thinking whitewater rafting guide, lifty, bartend, seasonal type stuff where I can be in nature more often either at work or on my days off and be around people that are on vacation or generally more happy than living in a sprawling metroplex where it seems everyone is caught up in a rat race.
 
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Used to love it, then liked it and now tolerate it...I’ve been in a funk for a couple of years and don’t know if I’ll ever come out of it doing the same job. There’s so many other things I’d like to do but unfortunately I’m not smart enough and/or qualified to do them or I’m too old (astronaut, fighter pilot, archaeologist, astronomer, musician, author would be awesome!)

Realistically I’ll probably retire in about 15 years doing what I’m doing now or retire in 8, move off to the mountains and find some odd job where I’ll make 1/8th the money I do now and probably work more but maybe be more happy? Thinking whitewater rafting guide, lifty, bartend, seasonal type stuff where I can be in nature more often either at work or on my days off and be around people that are on vacation or generally more happy than living in a sprawling metroplex where it seems everyone is caught up in a rat race.


I always remind myself by saying to self :

1-Job is a tool not a goal
2-never understatement yourself
3-don't bite off more than you can chew
5-don't be afraid of change
6- you never too old to reinvent yourself
7-impossible=im possible
 
I always remind myself by saying to self :

1-Job is a tool not a goal
2-never understatement yourself
3-don't bite off more than you can chew
5-don't be afraid of change
6- you never too old to reinvent yourself
7-impossible=im possible
Very nice reminders, I struggle greatly with #2.
 

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