I had this weird thought the other day about life stuff. It appears that we work to survive and survive so we could work and again, survive. It's a loop. So, in order to make that inevitable loop a bit more enjoyable, we try to find work that we actually like to do - which everyone knows is quite the impossible, or well, close to that.

So, I do web stuff to keep myself happy. What do you do? And if your still at a job that you so very much hate, what are you going to do?

Here's the video I mentioned.

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Eh. I'd rather work. I'd write more right now but TortoiseSVN is being a pain in the butt.

Out of college, I went into the defense industry which I found was full of false promises that stifled my ability. I hated my job, but worse I found that the feeling leaked into other parts of my life, causing me to be lose desire to do anything else. After some time I forced myself to brush up on and learn new skills and began to look for opportunities regardless of pay grade. I was fortunate enough to be free of enough personal responsibilities and able to pick up and leave. It is a risk, but at the time I found it worthwhile. I am now much happier in and out of work.

For me, I would say I live to create and I've learned that it being such a huge aspect of my life, my 9-5 better fulfill some if not all aspects of that creation desire.

I just read an article about the people on a Greek Island who live a very long time they eat a healthy diet (as most mediterannean diets are) but they also live simply (no worries about money) and work when they feel like it, how they feel like it doing what they enjoy. They take lots of naps, too :) Nobody uses clocks, either. Time is irrelevant to them. I want to move there but I don't know if I could do it! I am so used to working working working all the time!

Here's the article: nytimes.com