Topic: Work sucks!
I'm sure this has been discussed before, but...
WORK SUCKS!!!
I'm my mid 20's, and have managed to live my adult life without hardly working. I have in fact had success making money playing music on the street. But that's slowly died down so I've also lived with aunts, girlfriends, and good friends who have taken me in. I've recently decided to get my foundation a little stronger and become more independant, so I've been doing some work so that I can pay rent and have my own individual space.
I'm doing temporary promotional gigs that I find on craigslist, so it's not even bad work. It generally pays pretty well ($15+), and the gigs never last more than a few days so it's always changing. Still, I am amazed at how it affects me.
I just got done doing a four day stint. The changes it has produced in me are incredible.
When I try to untangle my curly hair clumps come out of my scalp... no wonder so many men are bald. Today waiting for a train (commuting is perhaps worse than working. It takes a lot of time, you don't get paid for it, and you are surrounded by a bunch of other people who are also stressed out) I was looking at a noosepaper I found and the thing was shaking... by my nervous arms, of course.
It's friday night and I don't have any work scheduled for now and I'm still finding it so hard to be present. I just want to get drunk or go to bed. I don't really want to go do anything, but I probably will. And it will probably involve me getting drunk. Funny how working drives me to drink.
Today on the way to work I was reading some sufi stuff, which talks a lot about quitting the working world. I guess first millenium middle-east wasn't much different than modern America. I was thinking about how it is no wonder that most people are so disconnected from a higher reality. Looking around on the train I could see the droning thoughts buzzing around in people's heads, and in my own... I saw how working can facillitate such a condition. How can one be here and now when 10 hours a day are spent on tasks that have no meaning to one's spirit??!
To any of you on this forum that work full-time and manage to still be tuned in, striving to find 'reality', I commend you.
Me, I'm gonna keep my workweek to under 20 hours. I'd much, much, much rather be poor than work any more than that. Maybe once I get a bit of cash together I can be like Gurdjieff and buy some flippin' rugs!
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