tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4392162987997980937.post537214895536868380..comments2023-10-06T03:44:23.385-07:00Comments on Commonwealth & Commonwealth: Take An Ungrateful Whiner To Work DayCaptain Colossalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02713053731307487088noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4392162987997980937.post-67082323253276834972008-03-12T08:32:00.000-07:002008-03-12T08:32:00.000-07:00Dispiriting, but maybe liberating, too. As anonymo...Dispiriting, but maybe liberating, too. As anonymous says, the day to day life in other jobs is dreary too. At least this chain of thought might end in the thought that perhaps it's the non-work parts of life that need improvement rather than the work parts. . . A thought that can sometimes cheer me up for, like, five minutes at a time. But hey, it's something.Noko Mariehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04384279666473945934noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4392162987997980937.post-12583024527535380482008-03-06T18:48:00.000-08:002008-03-06T18:48:00.000-08:00I know people who are constantly longing for a dif...I know people who are constantly longing for a different career; that is, until they come to realize that the day to day life of the alternate is just as dreary as what they hope to escape. This is especially true of academia. Academia is for the most part boring as hell, but would one really trade its high degree of freedom for a 40+/week job at which one is constantly told what to do, how to do it and where to do it? Or, a job at which customers are constantly complaining (even more than students do!) about this, that and the other? I think of leaving the academy all the time as well, until I realize that it's not a bad deal--or at least not bad enough to actually leave.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4392162987997980937.post-90357280911091965362008-02-27T18:52:00.000-08:002008-02-27T18:52:00.000-08:00But it seems so dispiriting to learn that the alte...But it seems so dispiriting to learn that the alternate jobs you daydream about would be hard and annoying too.Captain Colossalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02713053731307487088noreply@blogger.com