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- smellvetica0
jevad man - when you type in ww.jevad.com it goes to coop! strange!
- jox0
Apart from the 1,5 hour drive (that usually takes 20 minutes when it's not rush hour) I love it. I work with great people, I work on challenging stuff and I've worked hard enough over the past years to spoil myself whenever I want. Can't complain at all.
I do miss the 2,4 children and a wife every now and then, but hey - can't win 'en all at once.
- nhnu0
I'm feeling the exact way that you are and am making the drastic move. At 23 I've had a couple of design gigs, did a bit of freelancing and got suckered into some industrial programming job where they pay me some obscene amount of money to do mindless work.
But it's just not for me, I feel like I'm missing out on 85% of life getting caught up in my little work bubble. Rent, Bills, Save, it doesn't really matter when I'm doing the same thing constantly.
I'm jumping out, debt is just about paid off and then I'm gonna save for a few months and move to Oregon with some old friends (brooke may remember giving me a couple of encouraging words a few days back). One of them a clothing designer of sorts, and always into new ideas. I just want a job that doesn't matter too much, where hopefully I can work part time doing something that doesn't really bother me, and will hopefully be a breeze considering my background.
What if that gets boring? Well I'll figure that out then, all I know is that this just isn't doing it.
- brooke0
Well thank you all for your advice & comfort.
I feel like I need to be a kid for once, like I've been way too serious in a really serious lifestyle that doesn't quite suit me, like I'm not ready for such an adult life. I'm much too simple for all this. I love my friends, and I will miss them the most when I am gone, but I think NYC might be a bit too much for me. I've experienced a lot of self-discovery here, with no regret. I think I'll be ready soon to move on to happiness, but not before fulfilling some obligations.
- redFridge0
when brooke is sad it makes me sad
feel better, and please go where you will be warm inside.
- steakandliquor0
I absolutely love my job. I meet so many women and have made a lot of friends. Since I am pretty much the highest paid male actor in the business I get catered on quite a bit. I do about 5 scenes a day and love the ladies Im in scenes with. Yeah there are sleeze balls but I just find the people that are into the same stuff I am into.
- steady0
the times they are a changin'
I don't have a single friend who isn't sick of their job, city, friends, or whatever.
I'm currently trying to minimize my lifestyle and focus on health, life, etc.Brooke, you should set up shop and sell prints , greeting cards, t shirts, etc. on the side. You're too damn talented to not be supplementin' yo income girrrl.
On a more somber note:
"One is ejected into the world like a dirty little mummy; the roads are slippery with blood and no one knows why it should be so. Each one is traveling his own way and, though the earth be rotting with good things, there is no time to pluck the fruits; the procession scrambles toward the exit sign, and such a panic is there, such a sweat to escape, that the weak and the helpless are trampeled into the mud and their cries are unheard." - Henry Miller
- CyBrainX0
I think I know the problem. Living in the Village is not the problem. I live there too and consider it one of the great priveliges of my life. It's working in NEW JERSEY. (Sorry again, Tara) Commuting is not fun. and jersey is not the city. different experience altogether. Long Island is not much better. Ok. it's a lot better, but a lot worse than Manhattan in terms of a rich experience.
Brooke, you can work anywhere and Flash is waiting for your vectorliciousness like rabid dogs for red meat. I can't wait to see what you accomplish in the upcoming years.
- heavyarms0
I was going to ask why you don't like the job anymore. In previous posts I remember you being stoked about it. Now Im more curious to know - you have a bitch in Georgia?
- toastie0
these days are important for us, lest we forget why we do the things we do in the monotone comfort of habit.
- timajick0
On Monday Mach 29, 2004 there was a particular negative force in the Universe. Like a Solar Flare of Dark feelings, it affected certain sensitive subjects(myself included)in a negative emotional manner.
It was temporary.
This, as all things, will pass.
- brooke0
Talked to my mum tonight. I feel a bit better.
- dopepope0
Breaking out on nYc already? I thought things were great also! Well if you aint happy then by all means do what you must.
- brooke0
I will probably be moving to Georgia at the end of the year, when my lease is up anyway, to be with my bitch. Days like this, I wish tomorrow were November.
Thanks for the support. :)
- drake0
brooke! move down here to atlanta... rent is cheap, people are friendly - if you don't like you're job - quit! thats what i did... look around - they're out there, and you're incredably talented & won't have any problem finding one for sure!
whatever you decide, we all support you :)
- brooke0
I generally feel like my job is ruining my New York experience.
- heavyarms0
I went outside for lunch and it was so nice. That's one thing that's tough. Sitting in a stuffy ass room on a computer all day when it's so nice outside.
- toastie0
I didnt call you a fool, tara, you know perfectly well who the fools are :P
- cinder0
Having a job and being able to work is a privledge.
A painful one.You should work at work - and find joy and contentment at home.
If you like your job, you're very lucky.
But if you're trying to strike out on your own - I would say try to do both at the same time until it becomes impossible to do your day job.
I'm kind of in the same boat - I want to do my own thing - but I really, really just need paychecks.
- monkeyshine0
Having now done the working for others nasty deed and now working for myself, I can tell you that there is no utopia.
Instead of pain in the a$$ management, I have pain in the a$$ clients, some of whom are allergic to check writing. At least with jerk management, you get a reliable paycheck.
On the other hand, I do get alot of freedom and can work in pajamas...and if I need a break I turn off my phone and step away.
The only answer is to live a rich, balanced life and enjoy every moment.