Dave vs. Work

 I saw this the other day:

I also saw this one....

This is the conundrum I am in. I feel like work is unfairly biased, in terms of how much of my fucking life it consumes. Perhaps at one point in time, when I was career-centric, this would be ok. But now, it is all about either family, or my own personal interests (none of which involve being a GM Quarries I assure you!!!). 

So yeah, I feel like so much of my "good time", as in the time where I am clear-minded, productive, and feeling good, is taken up by my job. But then again, getting mentally geared-up for work does get me into that mindset too. After all, for those who have followed this blog, you would know that I have been seeking the path to productivity and planning enlightenment for years now. With my new tools, I feel I have found that to a degree, as well as the passion projects I have at work. So maybe I would still feel that career-mindfulness if I only had those projects to focus on, instead of the other BS. 

But it's the second 9GAG post that really hit a nerve. I have, for some years now, been thinking about leaving my job. But the truth is, or at least I suspect it is, that I don't necessarily want to leave my job in order to get a different and/or better one. It's that I don't actually want to work at all. I want to fucking retire man! I want my time to be my own. I don't want to have to baby-sit these stupid cunts that work for me (don't get me wrong, many of them are super people, but there are a handful that shit me to fucking tears). I don't want to have to deal with my megalomaniac, immature, freaking hopeless boss. Yes he has good attributes, but managing people or being a leader are not amongst them. So this is why I want to leave my job. But, I also get a lot of freedom in this job, and in some ways, I do get job satisfaction. I am not paid at the top end, far from it, but I am paid reasonably well. Hence the thought that I would leave only if the new role was significantly better for me financially. That comes with risk though. Risk that the company might go bust, as has happened to me before. Risk that my new boss might also be a wanker, that has happened before too. And risk that the new job and new working environment might not offer me the same amount of freedom that I have now. I need to assess those risks, balanced with whatever the offer conditions are, against what I have now. A small incentive for staying is also the fact that I am eligible for long-service leave as of the end of this year. If I am still in my current role, I am absolutely going to take it too.

So yeah, thanks 9GAG, once again you have captured the essence of what is going on, and stated it in a meme. The biggest problem with finding another job is I don't want one.