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Originally posted by bilmore
I actually do really really like mine, and so maybe my advice wouldn't be as useful as advice coming from someone who didn't like theirs but who managed to convince themselves they did so as to feel better about getting up and going in.
But anyway, start making yourself aware of what else you COULD be doing, and how much you COULD be making. There are just a ton of really really shitty occupations out there, most paying less than what you're making. You get paid to sit around and produce intellectual results. You could be getting paid to hump your butt on a line, or sell insurance or blocks of cell time or futures contracts, or answer no-mind phonecalls, or supervise idiot wretches, or . . . lots of bad choices. All for less money, less self-esteem, less ability to think creatively, less freedom to surf or read or talk or whatever. All in all, this is one of the better professions. It's not all roses, but there's more roses than you'll find most other places. The grass is actually greener where you are right now.
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I remember reading an ad in DC's City Paper about the opportunity to PAY $2000 for 2 weeks and go help in Cuba's sugar harvest. I had an epiphany! Overpaid overstressed people could do with a few weeks of dumb work.
I thought about starting a company where I would run a McDonald's. I would staff it with lawyers/doctors etc. who were on a "vacation." They would pay me $3000 per week to work at my McDonald's. I would hire a mean late-teenager to manage, and make the week a hell hole for my vacationers.
I would have a very well-educated staff, plus I'd be helping them realize how nice their real jobs really are. I also think the week there would be a great stress relief for the professionals. You wouldn't have to worry about committting million $$$ malpractice; at most you'd burn a basket of fries.
