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I had to help my mother with a craft project for a baby shower last weekend.

I'm pretty sure there's still glitter on my face.

Re:beards, this.

Also, I don't get why capitalism assumes money is a good motivator, anyway. The amount of money I earn never seems to have a positive correlation with the hours I'm willing to work or my enjoyment of the work. At all.

Allegedly, that's a product of the increased bias in favor of extroverts in our work cultures. Introverts tend to be unmotivated by money, where extroverts tend to be. Not law, by any means, but it does potentially explain a lot.



Grats!

quit

they either give you enough money to make the stress worth it or you find something else

edit:

to elaborate.

i was on the verge of walking from my job do to be unsatisfied with the work & underpaid. talked to my boss about it, mainly about the job satisfaction. he actually mentioned money. my day to day work got better for a week or so, then got all bleh again.

so was back on the verge of leaving with no job as back up. then the boss told me i was getting a decent sized pay bump, im still underpaid just less so, and the work started getting back into more interesting stuff. we also may add to the team soon, which will hopefully mean some new person does the more tedious stuff i have to deal with and i get more interesting projects.

staying at a job that makes you miserable, especially if the money isnt a strong enough incentive as enough money can make something meh into ok, is bad idea. the stress and loathing it inspires will just bring you down and potentially start to poison other parts of your life. also staying in the hopes it gets better or some new thing comes along can mean you just stay there forever.

actually quitting with no back up plan will light a fire under your ass and push you forward instead of just angrily thrashing around in quicksand.



Edited, Oct 10th 2013 9:32pm by Horsemouth

Honestly, the money is great, so I should probably stop complaining.

I'm just not motivated by cash. Sure, there's plenty I'd like to do WITH cash. I'd like to build a great gaming rig. I'd like to take a month trip through Europe. Etc.

But, honestly, as long as my needs are met, and I have wiggle room to add in some wants, I'm perfectly happy.

Of course, it doesn't help that a significant chunk of that additional cash is going to paying down my debt, which isn't all that gratifying.

That's a pretty weird fetish.

Oedipus hair fetish?

Ha, with how much of a lightweight I've become, anyone could afford that. And unfortunately, I haven't really been drinking recently.

Triumph in Princeton's decent. They have good food, at least. My sister and brother-in-law like good beers, and they enjoy it at least. I usually get the lightest thing they have.

And judging by the label, I think I've had the Pumking before. Don't remember the taste, though.

Assuming they go the same route as other products, they can either be really tasty or nasty.

You know, the interesting thing about this Pokemon launch is that it's universal.

I've never gone into this process without having a full list of version differences. Never played the game without knowing what pokemon I could find, where. I was always able to check to see if I had caught everything before moving on.

It's oddly exciting.

See, at the moment I'm not getting paid but I'm perfectly happy being in the lab/library/lecture hall 55-60 hours a week and having three days of social life this semester. Stuff like that makes me think I am kind of weirdly introverted.

Every time I got paid more than minimum wage I got fired shortly thereafter because I genuinely can't perform at a job I don't love and I'd rather go hungry than do stupid stuff for some person who's defined as my superior for arbitrary reasons.

What's arbitrary about the chain of command?

Grindr never fails to be entertaining.