Antiwork

all forms of work are real and valid.

You don't know my day job...

Damn, this is more of a list of “things to remember for your mental health and happiness,” capitalism or not.

Granted, for many of us these things would remind us to not get dragged into the downward capitalist spiral of equating personal worth with productivity or net worth.

Years ago a friend gently nudged me away from the usual get-together ice breaker of "what do you do for a living" because it's inherently biased to the well paid professional. He suggested I change to the more open "how do you occupy your time" . The answers are far more interesting and I never need to make stay at home spouses, underemployed or unemployed people feel uncomfortable.. this post reminded me of that (we are not our corporately bestowed titles)

This will blow some people's minds on here: some people actually derive pleasure from work. I actually like working. I like researching, building and producing stuff. I would rather work than spend my time doing some stupid hobby. My only requirement is that I need to believe in what I am doing. I won't work just for money or out of necessity and I won't work just to make some rich asshole, richer. I also won't work out of some competitive drive like some people do. I don't even work for myself. I don't care about material riches. I only work so that I can later marvel at my creations. But, I still like working.

I'll push back a little on that first point and be a little semantic. If you create something it is beautiful inherently. You took a thought and made it manifest, that is beauty

A plant that is yet to sprout is not anxious about being a mere seed. Like that, when it finally sprouts, the fact that it is yet to bloom doesn't bother the plant. At any moment in it's life the plant is in its perfect possible form.

You are no different. Don't be sad because you are not who you are yet to become. Don't be sad because of what you once were. At any moment you are the only version of yourself that could ever be, otherwise there would've been no you.

They take it away - the freedom to be just you. Little do they know that not everything is for the taking.

I'm pro the message and anti whatever font this is. It looks like the slightly less annoying cousin of comic sans (yes, I know it's good for people with dyslexia, shut up).

There is no such thing as a soul.

Doing nothing is good for yourself, meditate on nothingness.

While doing nothing is good for some, I'm sure many are like myself and feel better keeping busy or at least doing things I feel are semi productive.

My wife can watch TV her whole day off. I can barely sit for an hour and watch something these days, I'd rather clean and listen to a podcast, read or at the minimum - play some vidya.

Yes. Human Being, not Human Working.

While I agree with most of the listed items -

• "Doing nothing is good for my soul"
  It's good to rest once in a while, but you thrive more likely while doing something meaningful rather than lie in bed all day.

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• "My worth cannot be measured by my paycheck, my job title, or a list of professional or academic achievements"
  While obviously not ALL worth can be found within the work life, one can find lots of meaningful things from their job. It can make one happy and offer many benefits that can help general life as well. And I wouldn't be surprised if one earned some achievements through experience and good mentions on the way if you were passionate!

How do you pay for food?

The one thing I'll say, is with the second point, I personally will never consider being a social media influencer or being something like a cringetuber making gaming videos as a legitimate job. I'd consider a professional underwater soap carver with a plastic spoon a more legitimate job than an influencer or cringetuber.