Live the dream doesn’t always mean work the dream.

  • Eliza Divine@mastodon.social
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    11 months ago

    @georgetakei@universeodon.com yeah, I don’t dream of work. I dream of watching this intolerable society rot beyond it ever being something in control of evil rich overlords ever again.

  • Inkican@mastodon.social
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    11 months ago

    @georgetakei@universeodon.com Absolutely. Some of us are broken coffee cups just trying to glue ourselves back together.

  • BibbleCo@infosec.exchange
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    11 months ago

    @georgetakei@universeodon.com controversial opinion: very, very fee people can have “dream” anything – dream jobs, dream houses, dream kitchens, dream PC setups, anything. The positivity industry’s insistence that dream lives are available to everyone (everyone who “believes in themselves”, buys their book / seminars / essential oils or even just tries hard enough) has done incalculable damage to mental health.

  • Σειληνός (Seilēnós)@queerspirituality.social
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    11 months ago

    @georgetakei@universeodon.com For most people, a job is simply a means to an end. I’ve never really liked a single job that I’ve had. But they’ve all given me the resources to do things that I love. And for that, I’m grateful.

  • Katherine Villyard@wandering.shop
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    11 months ago

    @georgetakei@universeodon.com I always suggest something you can do, that people will pay you to do, that doesn’t suck. You have to have all three.

    You don’t have to be an astronaut, or a pro hockey player, or [insert childhood dream here]. You do the thing you can do that people will pay you to do that doesn’t suck.

  • Mighty Orbot@retro.pizza
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    11 months ago

    @georgetakei@universeodon.com Here’s mine: Every job, including your dream job, is going to feel like work part of the time. I love writing code, but eventually I have to debug something I hate because, well, it needs to be done.

    Don’t quit doing something you enjoy just because it’s not 100% engaging for 100% of the time.