l'll spread my wings...and breakaway

[julie_grrl135]

On my lunch break, and I was thinking...about these workers...how they are all like, "Happy Friday!" because Friday is the last day of the work week, and it means that they have the next two days off. I met this guy in the lift on my way up to work in the morning, and I asked him how his day was going so far, he said "It'll be a lot better at 5pm

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[allie_cat_01]

Its different for different people....some people have to settle out of necessity. Some people arent as fortunate to have the resources to go to school or to be able to get other experience to have options like you have. If the bills have to be paid, you cant really afford to take risks with job searching or going back to school so that you can do something fun or something that makes you happy. Some people are just happy to have security that settling for something just below their capabilites is something that works for them.

You have been really fortuante to be able to have a life that you can enjoy, but you have to remember that that is not always the case for everyone else. More people are unhappy about life/job etc than are happy.

If i had the weekends off, id be calling it happy friday too..shit :-p

[julie_grrl135]

I know that isn't always the case for everyone. I even said, "that may not be the case for everyone else." I know that there are people that have to rely on that type of job security. My own mother was one of them.

Please don't think that I don't know how fortunate I am, and please don't think that I am ignorant of the fact that there are a multitude of people who need a constant job. (my family and I are kinda in this group right now. (although I don't plan to be in this group forever)

What I meant was that for those who DO have the choice or the opportunity, why don't they take it? why do they settle? or, like i questioned before, Maybe it isn't settling? Maybe some people are just happy in this type of work??? and if they are...that's okay too. I just don't understand it, and I was trying to understand it...or at least get the point of view of someone who is happy in this line of work.

okay...I hope i am understood. Internet communication is quite difficult.

[allie_cat_01]

Yeah, you just kind of came off...like...people in general should do something to change a bad situation that they are in...and i was just thinking that your mentioning certain people at work and at school...those are people who probably...really dont have a choice. If that makes sense.

Its all good...i wish people could follow their dreams all the time and have a great career/life, but the cyncic that i am, its just wishful thinking. (unless youre like my aunt and you can take your clothes off at a bar and marry the richest man in the city :-p )

[julie_grrl135]

ok. this thing serioiusly sucks! this is the fourth time i have tried to comment, and it keeps coming back as cannot find server or some shit like that.

argh.

anyway...what i was trying to say (more eloquently, i might add) was that yes, after i commented to your first comment, i went back and re-read what i wrote, and it did sound a bit snobby. oh well. I guess that's what i get for trying to convey my thoughts on LJ (and trying to convey them quickly cus I was at work.)

[valse_triste]

As fun and nice as everyone is in our office, I know damn sure I would not want to stay there for the rest of my life working on projects and tickets. Watch Julie, later on in life you'll be in Debra's cube and I'll be in Patty's. Hahahaha.

[julie_grrl135]

oh HELL no! Please don't joke! AHHHH!

i guess if that did happen it wouldn't be terrible. I can usually find the happiness in a situation, and I'm sure that that *hypothetical* situation will be the same.

and PLEASE! I won't be in a cube. I will have an office. Like Carol's (Adelina's boss) or like one of the CEO's. If I'm gonna be in an office job, I better be super-well paid!