Article on teaching teenagers to be happy, from the Guardian.
I wish adults would spend more time learning how to be happy, and that more bosses would decide that happy employees were important. Instead, we have this mad mindset that says happiness in the work place is obviously a sign of skiving, and should be stomped on at every opportunity. Commingle that with the desire to exert your alpha-(fe)male status by acting like a twat and ensuring that everyone around you gets a piece of the shit you're spreading and you have the modern working environment.
Bollocks to that. I'm staying self-employed.
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Re: Learning to be happy
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Kate
on Tue 18 Apr 2006 01:16 PM BST | Profile | Permanent Link
Hear hear! When my husband went to uni 20 years ago, it was all about enjoying the learning. Now that I'm at uni it's all about statistics & league tables & competition and fighting for a place in the work market afterwards. School's the same. It sucks. People need to learn to chill out! I'm with you on the staying self-employed thing, Suw. I'll never work in an office again.
Re: Learning to be happy
Just gone self-employed again, and, surprisingly (sarcasm intended) all the stress-related problems I had have disappeared.
Re: Learning to be happy
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huw
on Thu 20 Apr 2006 06:04 PM BST | Profile | Permanent Link
Suw wrote:> "Commingle that with the desire to exert your alpha-(fe)male status by acting like a twat and ensuring that everyone around you gets a piece of the shit you're spreading and you have the modern working environment."
Suw, I've always sought to arrange my worklife so that I am in the main doing things that: a) I love doing, (b) I am quite good at doing, and c) I am well paid for doing. But this requires me to have numbers of clients, so that I can service only the little slices of what they want done that fit within the confluence of my three selection criteria. In my book, those who choose employment (i.e. working for only a single client at a time, called a 'boss'), forego a lot. To say nothing of having to put up with the 'boss' who wishes, in your words, to "exert her alpha-(fe)male status". If it's not too off-colour, would this be an example of what you referred to?: http://videovat.com/videos/1249/topless-boss-uk.aspx Re: Learning to be happy
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ric
on Sat 06 May 2006 01:23 AM BST | Profile | Permanent Link
suw
work / gweithio work - as you describe it - is a consequence of the agricultural revolution, and the industrial revolution on top of that before this time, you did what you needed to do, in order to survive, and the rest of the time was your own / your recreation the modern world to me is like 'The Matrix' movie - it is a construction digon hwyl! ric |
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