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Post by ido »

wincy wrote: post #114
nebulousthree wrote: post #80

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That's just because you limit your view to 2 months and look at it in a vacuum. If you extend your timeline, you may find that you get bored or restless and want to change things up. That "wasted time" is necessary in order to get into a different headspace. It's the equivalent of riding an elevator for your brain... It takes you to a different stage of life.

Doubtful. I had severe mental trauma happen to me when I was 19 and I basically become an emotional wreck who played video games until I was 26 or so. It was just a way to avoid confronting my issues and I became an exceptionally good World of Warcraft player. I hate that I wasted so much of my prime years “self medicating” with video games. It wasn’t until I quit World of Warcraft that I met my wife (maybe a week af…

Ok, but that's an extreme case - that may have been bad whereas someone taking half a year off after working extremely high pressure job for a decade can be good.

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Post by remlov »

natural20s wrote: post #11

This happened to someone I knew back in 2014 or so. We were hired together at C** Consulting and I was immediately shipped off to Dallas to help with an eCommerce program at a famous Watch & Accessory brand. My buddy from orientation in NJ kept in touch and was jealous I was on a project so quickly. He went back to his home and went into the C** office dutifully for the first month and just did training, enablement a…

I'm curious what they replaced WebSphere Commerce with. (I was there from 2011-2012). Beautiful office, terrible infrastructure (at least back then).

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Post by gs17 »

tra3 wrote: post #94
gs17 wrote: post #33

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My dad had a friend who did similar at an even larger company. The way the story was passed down to me, his whole floor was laid off while he was on some sort of leave/vacation and so the paperwork didn't get filed right, leaving him disconnected from the organizational tree but still in payroll. It's amazing the mistakes bureaucracy can make.

Come on. That's Milton's plot line from Office Space.

If I hadn't met the guy and known he worked for this company, I would have had an angry phone call home after finally getting to see Office Space. The big difference though is Milton kept himself visible because he was unaware (IIRC) and this guy came in and hid every day because he figured out what happened and knew how fragile a situation it was.

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Post by ilikecode »

I once interviewed a guy from France who said he was being paid for the last year to do nothing. Some government protection. I am in the USA so I am not sure how true that was.

Sometimes I feel like this in my Big Corp job. My manager cancelled my 1-on-1 a few months ago and that’s that. Must be nice right? Nah because it creates a lot of uncertainty that I’m working on the right stuff.

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Post by tra3 »

gs17 wrote: post #123
tra3 wrote: post #94

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Come on. That's Milton's plot line from Office Space.

If I hadn't met the guy and known he worked for this company, I would have had an angry phone call home after finally getting to see Office Space. The big difference though is Milton kept himself visible because he was unaware (IIRC) and this guy came in and hid every day because he figured out what happened and knew how fragile a situation it was.

There had to be a prototypical Milton somewhere. Hilarious!

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Post by mcv »

MrVandemar wrote: post #92
shubhamjain wrote: post #3

I read it a while back. The story is probably fiction, but I have no trouble believing there must be shitload of people who must have worked an arrangement like that for themselves—taking paychecks without work. What surprises me is that almost always these people don't use their free time to do something productive—like picking up a hobby or up-skilling, they squander most of it. Ex: a programmer who outsourced his…

See also: "I am taking a year off to write a novel". Seldom successful.

I once took a few months off to write a computer game. Guess what stage that project is in.

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Post by dinosaurdynasty »

hamburglar wrote: post #111
dinosaurdynasty wrote: post #47

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What's the point of productivity? What if I just want to enjoy myself as much as I can? Spending my time playing games and reading stories and learning new things and such sounds pretty great. And as someone who is trying to do early retirement, the main reason is so I can own myself... I'll never have enough energy to do everything I want, even without a day job taking a tremendous amount of it. And just to add anot…

I think for me, I enjoy a sense of accomplishment, but real accomplishments don’t tend to come without the motivation of others depending on the product of my work. Feels like a personal failing, but I’m old enough to recognize I should just accept it. I could retire right now* but I like being kept busy because of this (and having my retirement account get bigger doesn’t hurt either). * kind of lousy timing, money-w…

I've never gotten a sense of accomplishment from work that lasted more than a couple hours, so I can't really relate

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Post by jvm___ »

DonHopkins wrote: post #99
jvm___ wrote: post #6

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"The water in your body is just visiting. It was a thunderstorm a week ago. It will be the ocean soon enough. Most of your cells come and go like morning dew. We are more weather pattern than stone monument. Sunlight on mist. Summer lightning. Your choices outweigh your substance." - The CryptoNaturalist We think ourselves as a stone monument "I'm productive" "I'm this or that", but the truth is what we do daily defi…

“You aren't what you eat - you are what you don't poop.” -Wavy Gravy

You are what you don't breathe out would be more accurate.

https://youtu.be/vuIlsN32WaE

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