I work, you jerk.

[AlphaOmega]

I am unable to walk for large parts of the year, so I can't even do Manuel labor if I wanted.

that said I have worked 32+hours a week for a year between schools, and I have had some kind of job ever since I was 16 for a bout 10h a week next to my education, mostly working in stores and keeping a smile on my face throughout the day.

 

[AndyboyH]

I used to work in a stockroom, hauling around big CRTs, Fridges, Freezers, Cookers, Hobs etc. I used to think it sucked at the time, but we had a decent amount of fun, messing on with trollies having races, smashing up old broken stock, etc. (Kinda like the bit in the 40 year old virgin where they're messing with tube bulbs) but it was definitely hard and tiring. It's also the most exercise I've ever done I think. Try unloading a van at Christmas time while the phone for customer stock is ringing off the hook. It gets old. But there was no worries to take home. You knew the routine, and it was easy to follow. I was there for about a year and a half.

I moved into call center working after I finished Uni. Sometimes it was really rewarding, but it was a hell of a different kind of draining to the 'muscle work' of the past. One guy who's PC had fucked up lost all the pictures of his recently-dead wife. That phonecall will be one of the worst conversations I've ever had in my life, no question. I only lasted 6 months.

After a while, I moved into my current job. This is both the best and the worst. There are long hours. The pay given the pressure and responsibility involved is terrible. There's stress to the point of breaking (I've actually had clinical depression for the last year due to it) but it's arguably the most creative and involving that I've ever done in my 10 years of working. I've been there since 2005.

The key is definitely to find something you love and work to live, rather than live to work. I could get an easier job that probably pays more and doesn't affect my mental state in quite the same way. But it'd be far less rewarding at the same time. And I know that I couldn't work in a job that I don't enjoy.

 

[Aur0ra145]

Yes I work, three jobs infact. I do have alot of physical labor and stuff at one of my jobs while the other two are more intellectual.

Let me say this, on my vacation I went to the desert in west Texas. At this wonderful place we worked our asses off because we wanted a bar on top of a mountain, mind you it was 106* F in the shade out there. But, in the end we had our bar, it took a week to get all the materials up to the top of the mountain, but we got it done, and now we can have margaritas overlooking Mexico.

 

[Evil the White]

I deliver papers. And because we're understaffed for delivery boys, it means one of us ends up delivering what three people should be doing. And those papers bags are a lot heavier than they look. Mind, we do get a bit more than we should because of this, so its one of the perks. Balanced by the fact its every damn Sunday morning I have to be up at half five.

 

[Spygon]

I work in retail. Its very soulcrushing after a while and you have to take all sorts of s**t from people without ever rising to the bait. its a hard slog man.

this guy speaks the truth after 6 years in retail i have seen everything from death threats to people crying there eyes out to try and get their way.The public are scary and we have to see the worse of them nearly everyday

 

[Rolling Thunder]

Hard labour is somehow rewarding?

I worked in a factory for a couple of months. Lift, carry, place, lift, carry, place. It's not rewarding. It's soul-crushing.

 

[EternityTransfer]

I make my living as an stage actor.

You wouldn't believe the amount of people who look down on me when I tell them. But I love it. I was born for the stage and have always known this. In high school I was involved often with the school's productions, which were hell (in hindsight I can see how unprofessional it was), but I would not change it for the world, because without that I would never be where I am now.

I am fairly successful. The only thing that gets to me is the many, many people who think it is so easy to stand up on stage and present a believable character. You have to be constantly aware of your position on stage and the position of everyone else, as well as how you are projecting your character, where you are in the dialogue, pitch, pace, tone, of the voice etc. etc. It really is a physical and mental workout, and that is why it is fantastic. It is a hobby more than a job, really, and there is nothing better that making a living of something you love.

My heart breaks when I speak to a certain friend of mine. He has worked for eight years in the same dead-end office drudgery, and is just yearning for an escape. It was his dream to be an actor too, but his father died and he needed to support his mother on something more regular, and so took up the job. He so wants to get into the industry, but it is a fickle one, and doesn't want to take risks, so he is stuck.

One of the biggest sins that the world commits is stifling those who really have what it takes to make it. If you want to be an astronaut, go for it, if you want to be a cook, go for it. It doesn't matter who you are or how old you are.

Go for it. Break the mould. Be you own person.

Reach for the stars.

 

[Acier]

you know what's funny? My dad grew up on a farm. Large family, small school, the whole shindig.

You now what he says whenever anyone asks him if he misses the "country life"? he instantly responds "No."

Physical labor just makes you sweat and need some advil, it's not inherently better

I'm inclined to agree with your dad on this. I grew up in much the same situation as your dad. (except a ranch not a farm) Don't get me wrong it taught me the value of work (It put food on the table) and how to work hard. But most importantly it taught me 'i don't want to work in agriculture at all' all my brothers and cousins worked on the ranch at some point of those 20 or so kids only 2 have grown up to work in agriculture. So yeah...

Actually it reminds me of something funny he said when he found out my step cousin had a vegetable garden in her backyard

"What? Who would grow their own vegetables if they lived in the city?"
"Some people people lie the taste of homegrown vegetables Dad..."
"Well yeah of course they're better, but it's not worth the trouble when you have a Reasor's right there. I dare you to find anyone who's ever farmed growing their own food once they moved to the city. You won't find one, because they actually realize how awesome grocery store are."

 

[Pariah87]

I work in a menial physical job. I respect anyone in employment though, no matter what it is they do, each job comes with its fatigues. My brother works in retail and I often give him shit about "how can you be tired, you've sat at a desk all day doing nothing, maybe stacking some shelves haha". Then I see the kind of stuff he has to deal with, especially as he is on the management scale, drunk customers who want to start fights, shoplifters, general assholes or idiots.

I can go to work after having 2 hours sleep, still a little drunk from the night before, do my job for 8 hours then bugger off home untill the next day, no one to tell me how to dress, how to have my hair, demanding I be clean shaven. There are many jobs I know I couldn't do simply because I don't have the ability to deal with people. As a shop worker if you get threatened by an obnoxious sod, you have to take it, to hell with that.

The only people I can't abide are those who won't work, or those who are living off mummy and daddys hard earned money. The number of people whos parents grafted for years to drag themselves up out of the lower class, only for their kids to feel like they are entitled to an easy life.

 

[Risingblade]

Nope I'm a lazy good for nothing and happy about it at them moment~