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Topic: Who here is even remotely interested in their job?
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marsconjunctmercury
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From: Isle of Wight U.K
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posted June 13, 2007 08:15 AM
 
I'm not. I sometimes feel i'm on my own in this but perhaps not so. I am not remotely interested in my job. The only time i am is when it comes to payday, or when i'm sufing the internet for as much of the day as i can.
Is anyone else going through this?
I really feel my life is utterly pointless. I'm not even that materialistic so here i am devoting my life to a job i hate purely for an income. WTF?
I would love a job where i was actually contributing in some way to people or the planet.
The life i'm leading at the moment is absolute b*llocks.------------------
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Mars, that's so spot on!
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I agree with MCM.
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...please tell me, what did you to develop those abs?
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MCM, you are a good guy...
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HEHE Marsconjunctmercury is soo right about virgo moons
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I only read your posts. Everyone else is boring
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miss_muffet
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posted June 13, 2007 08:21 AM
Sorry to hear that... there is nothing worse than spending the whole day at work and hating it.I actually do love my job. I am lucky that way. MM IP: Logged |
thirteen
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From: Rochester Hills, MI USA
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posted June 13, 2007 10:20 AM
I've been in the workforce a long time and I have alot of practical work experience. I like being in the business world but i doubt seriously at my age (47) if anything out there would really thrill me anymore. So therefore i had to find reasons to keep going:
1. Money, we all need that.
2. Helping people, there are a lot of people in the office here that i help, sometimes just by being an ear for them to vent once in a while.
3. Fun... i love computers and do work now that lets me learn and play.
4. Im virgo so i like to serve, im in a job that allows me to serve and to be apart of the happenings of the office too.
5. Social network. I need to be around others.You have to find something at your job that does give you a sense of purpose. If you can not find any at all then do a self analysis and find out what you like to do and try to move into an area of working that will let you experience it. Your lucky, you are not material so maybe you could go after what you like to do even if it doesn't pay all that great. Yes, at my age im bored at work alot. IP: Logged |
AcousticGod
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From: Pleasanton, CA, USA
Registered: May 2005
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posted June 13, 2007 11:02 AM
I almost posted about my job last night. I'm new at it, and I've been kicking ass, but now that it's time to compete with the top producers in my department I'm realizing that the top producers manipulate the system. They're really slackers for part of the day. They specialize in one process while neglecting the other. I'm too intense, and have too much integrity to follow their lead. I do both processes until the work is done on each. Now I've gotta figure out how not to be disappointed about this.IP: Logged |
SattvicMoon
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posted June 13, 2007 11:14 AM
I have never liked any of the 5 jobs I worked. Though I was technically good, I was a good team player, I just couldn't work for someone else's terms. But when I had my own company for almost 3.5 years, it was purely good - though I had to wind it up for personal reasons. Last month I quit my 5th job, though the pay was good, it wasn't motivating factor for me to work night shifts, and handle wrong job profiles. I am trying to work for myself in a small way right now, but planning and taking steps slow.------------------
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InLoveWithLife
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From: Wonderland
Registered: Aug 2006
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posted June 13, 2007 11:18 AM
MCM, is there any way you could switch jobs? Is there something you always wanted to do, but thought that it wouldn't pay you enough money? Do you have any kind of flexibility, like may be apply for an open position in another dept in the same company?I am not entirely satisfied with the path I have taken in life. but now that i am already on it, i have to make the best of it. And slowly try to change it more towards something of my liking. If you can't do anything to change the situation, you have to find reasons to go on. Money is am important one, even though it feels very 'lowly' to be materialistic. but the fact is that one does need money. so try not to feel too bad about it. May be you can innovate....come up with a way to do things better. may be you feel you are stagnating? just some thoughts.
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marsconjunctmercury
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posted June 13, 2007 01:06 PM
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Mars, that's so spot on!
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I agree with MCM.
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...please tell me, what did you to develop those abs?
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MCM, you are a good guy...
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HEHE Marsconjunctmercury is soo right about virgo moons
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I only read your posts. Everyone else is boring
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1scorp
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posted June 13, 2007 02:49 PM
MCM: For some reason I'm getting a vision of people coming in and yelling at you for your stable man comment.  
Disclaimer: No... I don't think women are *&*&*&*&. Well, maybe a few of us (myself included at times). I've met just as many &*&*& men. I do know how you feel. I've been on a few of those tangents myself. However, I am one of those people that honestly love to work. I have to scale back on hours when I realize I'm becoming a little nuts with it. My weekday office job can be pretty boring... alright, it can be a virtual nightmare!  Locked up in a one window room... a computer... a phone... paperwork... a radio..... I do get along with everyone and the pay/benefits are pretty good... but my god, sometimes I just get that caged animal feeling, ya know? My weekend job I seem to enjoy... even though it's not everyone's schtick. I make pretty decent money doing it... I get to meet all sorts of people... so I get my people fix. I was landscaping a little on the side last summer also. I really enjoyed that. Everyone asks why I work so much (I won't even get into the comments about my choice and wide difference gap in jobs... they can't figure me out)... I like to travel, own a home, am a single parent, etc. plus I have my eye on a boat. Also, I haven't really found just one thing that provides me with everything that I need to be 100% happy doing. Everyone is different and different things matter to each person. I say do what makes you happy. Edit: I wanted to add that I can also recognize and agree with MK's thread. I see both sides... must be the Libra (??)
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AcousticGod
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posted June 13, 2007 03:34 PM
Sounds like your 2nd house conglomeration in action, 1Scorp.I have a Sag friend with a Scorp ascendant and I think a couple other planets in the 2nd with his Sun, and he is also big on being materially secure. IP: Logged |
marsconjunctmercury
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posted June 13, 2007 03:59 PM
1Scorp i'd love to meet you, with the planets you have. ------------------
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Mars, that's so spot on!
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I agree with MCM.
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...please tell me, what did you to develop those abs?
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MCM, you are a good guy...
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HEHE Marsconjunctmercury is soo right about virgo moons
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I only read your posts. Everyone else is boring
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samsara
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From: portland,or,usa
Registered: Apr 2007
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posted June 13, 2007 04:36 PM
Hi MCM, I can greatly empathize with the things you've said. But I urge you to see things a different way.My "career" path has been an endless disappointment,but I look at things in a different way.
First of all, I have karma. Mars opp saturn square Neptune.Neptune conjunct MC and Saturn and Mars square MC.So , it was meant to a bumpy ride for me in that department.
But the ride has yeilded so many benefits. I grew as a person. I touched and was touched by the lives of so many people I would never have met had I not been blown off course.I learned the lessons of coping with disappointment and the humilty that comes with not getting what you want.
When life isn't working we look for answers.If my life was easier,maybe I wouldn't have looked as hard for the answers I've had. And I love the answers I have. Maybe I wouldn't have the faith I do.These are the things I value most in the whole world. And my path brought me riches beyond in those areas. In fact I consider myself a very lucky person. My life has been difficult and sometimes tested the limits of my endurance,but the spiritual growth has been great. I'm so much better a person than I was. And I'm exited abou thow much more I hope to become.I'm so much more filled with faith and hope and a different kind of happiness.
The happiness that comes from a different kind of achievement.Taking joy in things that are of a differnet currancy than the world.The joy and endless mystery of spiritual expereinces I've had. The hopefullness of nights in lonely places.My still being able to smile and trust in the goodness of life! Realizing that life couldn't crush me and that miricle's hide in the most hopeless places. That we can never give up and that spritual growth and the joy of discovery count too in this world. Even though many don't think so.
IF I had it to do over again, it would be hard,but I ask for it all again. Becuase of the places in led me. Places of the spirit that are inaccessable any other way.Also hardship helps us cultivate a relationship with the creative force in the universe. Compassion, seeing beauty in life no matter what. This soaring spiritual haapiness I get sometines and the feeling that a gentle loving light is blanketed over everything!!!! How could I wish for another path with these gifts? I've also had problems with my family. But this too can be looked at in a different way. Maybe without those problems i wouldn't have sought comfort in the places I did. Even when we totally alone in the world ,we never are . There is always the awareness of and the pressence of the source of it all. It's just in the most despairing places that we have to opportunity to cultivate a relationship with the divine!And we still have ourselves and we can find a friend in our own hearts. I've become very self reliant and independant! Also, when we can't idelaize our family we see them as people. Not who we want them to be ,but who they are. And after the anger or disappointment wears off we can also feel compassion for them. Be there for them and open to forgive and move past the attachments of the past and make new ones.
MCM, I've also had probalems with women. But honestly weren't they all of my own making? I've let so many wonderful women slip through my fingers. It really weqsn't there fault. I wasn't ready. I needed freedom and just toss myself to the wind. There were so many, so many beautiful souls ,but I was too wounded at the time. There were good women I would have been honored to have been with , who were more thandeserving of what i could have giventhem. It was really me that was the problem.It took me years to understand ,but it was me.I lost a parent when i was young and that can make you very,very careful about ever getting attached again.It also gives you an almost insatiable need for freedom, never to look back.Just trying to keep motion of some kind going . The need to never go back to the person you were before. Just to be free.
Also maybe my life path hasn't always been about just me. Maybe people needed me to be places i wouldn't have wanted to go. So the universe sends you were you need tobe,not neccesarily where you want to be.In that way you can feel that you are serving a higher calling than your own.Because the path is being directed from a place beyond your choosing at times!
Would I like a more convetional life? Honestly ,yes. Do I enjoy being poor and living so close to the edge? No. But I've found meaning for the difficulties. If you can find meaning for your pain ,it can't destroy you. I feel very tired sometimes of never having anything or having fun. Of never doing the things I'd like for a living. But maybe I will someday and if I don't I can live with it. I'd wish it otherwise ,but I could live with it.
I have been formed by the events of my life and am very happy with the results. Would I have preferred it to be easier. Sure. But I don't think it could have happened any other way than it did. When I look back I feel the pressence of a immeasurably loving being gently crafting a better person from the clay of who I was.
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1scorp
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posted June 13, 2007 04:50 PM
AG: I think that makes sense. It’s something that I can’t deny.  MCM: I ran our composite chart. Here’s what I found: Ac: Leo
Sun: Scorpio – 4th house
Mars Scorpio – 4th house
Venus Sag. – 4th house
Mercury Scorpio – 4th house
Neptune Sag. – 4th house
Uranus Scorpio – 3rd house
Pluto Libra – 2nd house
Jupiter Taurus – 10th house
Saturn Leo – 12th house moon square neptune
moon trine jupiter
sun sextile moon
saturn sextile pluto
neptune sextile Pluto
saturn square uranus
sun conjunct mars
sun conjunct mercury
sun oppose jupiter
sun square asc.
sun square saturn
mars oppose jupiter
mars square asc.
mercury conjunct mars
mercury conjunct venus
mercury oppose jupiter
mercury square asc.
venus conjunct mars
venus square asc.
jupiter square asc.
jupiter square saturn
I think the moon will change your mind. Virgo - 2nd house
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Hexxie
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From: :::Libra Sun / 29* Gemini Rising / Aquarius Moon:::
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted June 13, 2007 06:13 PM
McM~I am right there with ya on the not liking my job. It pays really well. But I just have 0 desire to do it. My ASC is 29* GEm and if I remember correctly yours is 0*Cancer? If this is the case, then is tUranus in your 10th house now too? I know that's part of the reason why I feel like rebeling against 'the man' and saying to Hell with this automaton existence. The time is ripe for me to act on these feelings. I am quitting my high paying soul crushing job. My last day is June 29. I am taking the leap and I am going to do my art (which is doing make-up) for a living. I will make it work. I feel really alive for the 1st time ever cuz i'm taking something that's always been a fond hobby of mine and i'm going to do it on a grand scale! I hope everyone who's in an office has seen Office Space!!! If not, you need to Peter: ...uh... it doesn't really matter. I uh, I don't like my job, and, uh, I don't think I'm gonna go anymore.
Joanna: You're just not gonna go?
Peter: Yeah.
Joanna: Won't you get fired?
Peter: I don't know, but I really don't like it, and, uh, I'm not gonna go.
Joanna: So you're gonna quit?
Peter: Nuh-uh. Not really. Uh... I'm just gonna stop going... And so I leave you with: quote:
Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar.
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Things become uncomfortable so that we will alter our course and move a bit-Life's Cattle Prod. What are you going to do about it, if anything? Is the time right for action? Or is it just time for thinking & dreaming. One needs to have the dreams before they can make them reality... So Dream On  ------------------
`Who are you?' said the Caterpillar. This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation. Alice replied, rather shyly, `I--I hardly know, sir, just at present-- at least I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.'
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goatgirl
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posted June 13, 2007 06:36 PM
I'm a stay at home, unschooling mom so I have a pretty awesome time at my job. The only thing I wish was that what I do received the respect it deserves in the greater society. It's terribly undervalued as a whole.Peace.
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Lei_Kuei
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From: Window Between Worlds
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posted June 13, 2007 10:17 PM
Soon I'm going to be play testing computer games for 8 hours a day in a Quality assurance center!Room full of gamers playing games and getting paid... Not exactly what I want to be doing (I want to be developing games) but its a start... Anyways, for the most part it will be fun  IP: Logged |
marsconjunctmercury
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posted June 14, 2007 04:28 AM
No my Ascendent is in the middle of Cancer, not at 0 degrees.
1Scorp - That's the second time a hot chick has run a composite chart with me this week. I don't know anything about them to be honest. And there's me thinking it was you who were the air-heads!
But seriously thanks. I like the way we both have Sun and Mars in Scorpio. But obviously the Moon in Virgo bit means we would be shallow, manipulative liars to one another which is a bit of a shame. I really thought we were 'going somewhere' you know?------------------
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Mars, that's so spot on!
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I agree with MCM.
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...please tell me, what did you to develop those abs?
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MCM, you are a good guy...
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HEHE Marsconjunctmercury is soo right about virgo moons
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I only read your posts. Everyone else is boring
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Highly_Inflammable
Knowflake Posts: 330
From: some where far and forgotten
Registered: Apr 2007
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posted June 14, 2007 05:44 AM
I am not, I just resigned yesterday...
... soo scary it is but, for good.
lets see. IP: Logged |
Dervish
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From: California
Registered: Nov 2006
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posted June 14, 2007 06:13 AM
I am happy, being my own boss and all. I wouldn't give it up for a good health plan and 10x what I make now (at least, not for very long...)you might appreciate this article:
http://www.backwoodshome.com/columns/wolfe060615.html Another book...I can't tell you how helpful it can be...is Your Money or Your Life by **. If you're in the USA, see if your local library has it or the ref librarian can ILL it for you. But it's not one of those books you can skim, it takes concentration and effort. But it's well worth it, IMO. Here's a litte more info on it:
http://www.yourmoneyoryourlife.org/
You might also find it interesting to look in the mid-700s at the library for books on arts, crafts, and how to make money from it.
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Motherkonfessor
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posted June 14, 2007 09:11 AM
Yes, I am happy with my job.Because of my job, I get to live in a national park. There is one road- so, no horrible traffic (unless there's a bear sighting.) I am surrounded by mountains and a huge lake. My neighbors are bison, bear, bald eagle, and elk.
Just 2 days ago, I walked out of my office to see 2 moose playing about 150 feet from me. I live for free. My food is free. I don't have an electric bill, rent, water bill, garbage bill- nothing. I have full medical benefits, and I get 10 WEEKS OFF A YEAR. I save enough while I am working and I make enough on unemployment that I can travel. I just bought a new car- my only "real" expense. My ecological footprint is small, and this is something that is very important to me- I don't need a huge house, I don't need "stuff." I live in a cabin, I don't have a family to care for, so I don't need the house morgage route that so many people do, which leads them to jobs they hate. I make my own hours. My job is 20% admin office stuff, and 80% running around. I stay healthy. I am never ever bored. I meet people from all over the world, that I work with and that we serve, and its a blast.
Nothing is more fun than working in a restaurant.
Nothing. And, my job can't get outsourced. PS- all those kids I talked about in another post? Name another job where you make $100 an hour with no college degree? One that doesn't involve the sex trade, that is......
MK
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1scorp
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posted June 14, 2007 09:14 AM
"I really thought we were 'going somewhere' you know?"I know... shame, eh?
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lalalinda
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posted June 14, 2007 01:35 PM
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Name another job where you make $100 an hour with no college degree? One that doesn't involve the sex trade, that is......MK
cocktails! 
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Peri
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posted June 14, 2007 01:39 PM
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lalalinda
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posted June 14, 2007 03:09 PM
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1scorp
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posted June 14, 2007 04:41 PM
Granted I've never managed to make it out of an 8 hour shift with $100.00 an hour in my pocket (I'd quit my week job if I did)...but bartenders aren't that shabby. ________________________________________
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Xena
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posted June 14, 2007 05:16 PM
Heya MJM, *jobs* are horrible, I totally sympathize...certainly not the Sag cup of tea. What exactly is it you do? Do you have any artistic talents you could capitalize on? IP: Logged | |
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