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CatNamedRudy wrote:I just completed two days of training on a new program we're going live with in a two weeks. The training itself was ok but (and sorry for those reading my FB status' because this is a re-rant for them) there was a woman who spent the entire two days hacking up her lungs. It was one of those disgusting phlegmy gross kind of coughs and it was non-fucking stop for two days. The women with her kept telling her yesterday that she shouldn't come back today and she should go the damn doctor. So that was bad enough but on top of her disgusting hacking she was a fucking moron! It's a computer program we're learning and it's pretty easy. Most things are in drop down menus etc. She couldn't even get the fucking log-on information right despite the fact that she had to do it several times a day! I fear for anyone who has to work with her in any capacity!

Maple wrote:My rant is directed at myself. I cannot understand how sometimes I can be so foolish.

Dorset Girl wrote:

Maple wrote:My rant is directed at myself. I cannot understand how sometimes I can be so foolish.

Join the club! I make a hobby out of it.

Maple wrote:

Dorset Girl wrote:

Maple wrote:My rant is directed at myself. I cannot understand how sometimes I can be so foolish.

Join the club! I make a hobby out of it.

We need new hobbies!

Maple wrote:perhaps...

I just learned it is going to cost me $149.00 to get a decent seat to see Yes. Damn tickets are expensive!

Ramona wrote:Why do I let myself get dicked about by guys ALL the time?

Ramona wrote:Why do I let myself get dicked about by guys ALL the time?

Moon-Crane wrote:

Ramona wrote:Why do I let myself get dicked about by guys ALL the time?

Because you're not gay, so don't have to worry about getting dicked about by girls at any time? Think of the bisexuals. Twice the dicking around to swap between!

Anyway, i digress.... He's obviously not worth getting aggravated over - you'll definitely find someone else better. Good luck!

Maple wrote:And many musicians wonder why people don't go to concerts. I know, I hear them whine every day about it.

(I also whine, but let's keep that our little secret huh?)

Maple wrote:No, its all about the money.

Always!

My "day job" is musician.

Many people want my job. They aren't good enough.

They should have practiced harder. I did 35 hours practice last week. And I am an established professional musician.

I am not gigging tonight becaues the pay was not good enough. I made money teaching.

It is always about money. Musicians pay rent too.

Maple wrote:No, its all about the money.

Always!

All the same,you don't do it for the money,or you're a monkey.You don't think of the bottom line,or you're a monkey.You don't think of it in terms of hourly wage,yearly wage,ever life time wage,or you're a monkey.In the end you don't even do it for love,although it would be nice to think so.You do it because to not do it is suicide.And while that is tough,there are compensations I could never tell Wyatt about,because he is not that kind of guy.

I don't need to draw you a picture,do I?You don't do it for money;you do it because it saves you from feeling bad.A man or a woman able to turn his or her back on something like that is just a monkey,thats all.The story paid me by letting me get back to sleep when I felt as if I couldn't.I paid the story back by getting it concrete,which it wanted to be.The rest is just side effects.

Humans are highly suseptable to a mania known as hobbies.
The teacher may do gravestone rubbings in her spare time, the chemist might be a coin collector, the shop assistant might be a photographer.
Now and again some of these people become so good hobbies they are able to make them into a proffession. The teacher may be able to move onto the lecture circuit, the shop assistand may be able to support themselves by taking photographs.
It's hard to think of something we enjoy as a real job, so by mutual consent we call these proffessional hobbies "the arts"
The difference is, that all these people, every one, would continue to do what they do even if they were no longer paid for their services.
In fact many would continue to do it even if their art were banned. The chemist, rather than hand in his collection would no doubt put them in a waterproof container and store them in the cistern of the toilet, to be taken out and looked over in the dead of night.
Don't get me wrong, money is a useful thing to have (let's not desend into total fantasy just yet) and everybody needs to eat, but the money is a side effect that allows you to keep practicing your art.
You do it because you need to do it, because it's in you to do it, and that you can't imagine what it would be like to not be doing it.