most people's existences are made up of the 9-5 grind, and they are so caught up in this that they don't question this with any real vigour.
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Previously on "Contracting helps you to really know yourself"
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Originally posted by DieScum View PostNow working from home since January. Completely alone.
Love it sometimes, get cabin fever sometimes.
Pub tonight
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"Contracting helps you to really know yourself" - in the biblical sense?
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Worrying
To think that the only 'human' contact and 'friends' some here have is through this forum - scary!
Never seen so many - what can only describe as suicidal thoughts! Some of the guys in need of a few 'happy pills'!
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I suppose i'm a bit of a loner/anti-social type... well not superficially. Superficially I'm very outgoing. I'm the guy who chats to everyone and strikes up conversations.
Spent the last few years on-site in "hostile territory" mostly. Ok not hostile but very much the highly paid outsider who a great deal is expected of and must deliver rather than one of the merry team. It is hard.
Now working from home since January. Completely alone.
Love it sometimes, get cabin fever sometimes.
Sometimes I'm up and about fitting in the gym, team sports, volunteering with community groups.... sometimes I can't be bothered for days on end and just quit human contact.
I think you need balance... and I'm not great at balance!
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Originally posted by aussielong View PostThat I am a P-O-R-N addict. When I spent a year working from home coding i was spending 3-4 hours a day surfing filth. It's so addictive. And I had a girlfriend at the same time too. At least when working in an office, this is not an issue.
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What I learned
That I am a P-O-R-N addict. When I spent a year working from home coding i was spending 3-4 hours a day surfing filth. It's so addictive. And I had a girlfriend at the same time too. At least when working in an office, this is not an issue.
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Originally posted by ratewhore View PostI have to concur with the OP. Ask yourself this; will you be telling your children as they grow up that they need to get their qualifications, go to uni, join a corporate and then scale the corporate ladder? Or will you be trying to instil a sense of their own purpose and value, spreading their wings to find what it is they really want to do with their life and then go and chase it?
It's only really contracting that has given me that outlook...
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Originally posted by ratewhore View PostI have to concur with the OP. Ask yourself this; will you be telling your children as they grow up that they need to get their qualifications, go to uni, join a corporate and then scale the corporate ladder? Or will you be trying to instil a sense of their own purpose and value, spreading their wings to find what it is they really want to do with their life and then go and chase it?
It's only really contracting that has given me that outlook...
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I have to concur with the OP. Ask yourself this; will you be telling your children as they grow up that they need to get their qualifications, go to uni, join a corporate and then scale the corporate ladder? Or will you be trying to instil a sense of their own purpose and value, spreading their wings to find what it is they really want to do with their life and then go and chase it?
It's only really contracting that has given me that outlook...
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