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oldtimer · 06-05-2003, 10:34 AM

Tell me, Could the world survive if no one worked? It is indeed the essence of life. There is no denying that, though it does not have to ride your back as it does mine. In this day and age, the only important factor (not for me, not for you, but for the whole) is to work non-stop. There was a day and age when you only had to work to support yourself, your family or people you loved. Now it has domesticated itself into production for the mass. That is why I am unhappy. I don't see enough people speak out and contribute their ideas about what could be changed to improve their job wherever they work. Instead, they say "I will go with the flow". Fathers work well into their 40's and 50's trying to still be of some use to this world. Has it really come down to that? If you are 51 and still trying to find a job you are classified as somone dominated by "work". Being the most prosperous country is overrated, our children are enjoying our benefits we provided for them but at too early an age without learning the value of work. So they now (at 13, 14, and 15) carry cell phones, have permits to drive and so on. If not in five years, then ten, I will see a revolution in work because those children of the 90's were raised to accept our way of life to quickly. When that time comes, wheelchair or walker, I will let out a laugh and mutter, "They had to snap sometime."

06-05-2003, 10:34 AM	#9 (permalink)
oldtimer Addict	Tell me, Could the world survive if no one worked? It is indeed the essence of life. There is no denying that, though it does not have to ride your back as it does mine. In this day and age, the only important factor (not for me, not for you, but for the whole) is to work non-stop. There was a day and age when you only had to work to support yourself, your family or people you loved. Now it has domesticated itself into production for the mass. That is why I am unhappy. I don't see enough people speak out and contribute their ideas about what could be changed to improve their job wherever they work. Instead, they say "I will go with the flow". Fathers work well into their 40's and 50's trying to still be of some use to this world. Has it really come down to that? If you are 51 and still trying to find a job you are classified as somone dominated by "work". Being the most prosperous country is overrated, our children are enjoying our benefits we provided for them but at too early an age without learning the value of work. So they now (at 13, 14, and 15) carry cell phones, have permits to drive and so on. If not in five years, then ten, I will see a revolution in work because those children of the 90's were raised to accept our way of life to quickly. When that time comes, wheelchair or walker, I will let out a laugh and mutter, "They had to snap sometime." __________________ Slowly but surely getting over the loss of TFP v. 3.0. Where the hell am I?.... Showering once a month does not make you a better person. "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." Martin Luther King, Jr.