“The problem with the rat race is even if you win you’re still a rat.”
Posted by lorneau in UncategorizedThe reason I went so long without posting is I got a job.
Eight hours a day applying my skills for a small benefit for me and a larger benefit of someone else. I have nothing against the system itself, but the eight hours bother me to no end. I forgot who was the first to define a system of eight hours of sleep, eight hours of work, eight hours of leisure, but he had no idea what he was talking about. Unless he worked in his backyard.
I work with people who waste almost two hours to get there, then another two to get back home. Subtracting these hours from the eight work hours is not an option, so they sleep less and have less leisure. There is also “lunch hour”, which is not considered work – it is when some of them go to the bank or supermarket nearby. Such a frustrating reality.
I admit, however, to have it much easier than most. It is a fifteen minute drive between me and work. And I have the option of working from noon to 8pm, resulting in a total time away from home of only eight hours and a half. If I go earlier, I can come home for lunch and be back within an hour – actually cheaper than the shady and overcrowded restaurant nearby.
Enough complaint. For those who wonder, the job I got is with a local manga publisher. Now I read Naruto and Bleach before everybody else and get paid for it!… But I did not read Naruto and Bleach before, and “everybody else” except those who already read ten volumes ahead in scans. I am not complaining: there are many other mangas, I get the chance to change some things that always bothered me in some titles, I am forced to read things I would probably buy and “never find the time” and, bonus, I subtly suggest improvements that I can later word prettily in my resume. All good fun.
I will try to post more often, anyway.
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No meu caso, são oito horas de trabalho, mais uma hora e meia obrigatória de almoço, mais duas horas de transporte diário. Se eu somar a meia hora que levo para me preparar para sair de casa (é para o trabalho que gasto essa meia hora, afinal), são doze horas.
É por isso que eu digo que o ideal é não trabalhar, para podermos nos dedicar aos projetos pessoais. Como ler mangas, por exemplo.
Algumas pessoas não foram feitas pra trabalhar. E já que nós somos iluminados o bastante pra enxergar o ridículo dessa vida, deveríamos ser recompensados com dinheiro ilimitado.
Se quiser eu troco com você.
Eu provavelmente usaria o privilégio de ter acesso irrestrito aos mangás antes do público para pegar todas as otakinhas gostosas que eu visse pela frente.