Reply to: Depressing thought when you get to the bench

[EternalOptimist]

I was looking for a job, and then I found a job, heaven knows I'm miserable now


Morrissey

[Mich the Tester]

Unless you become a preacher

Its a miracle! you've all been healed! Haaaalleluya

…and don’t forget the collection; the good lord prefers paper to coins!

[SantaClaus]

Ah lads... Jesus is great and everything but he won't pay the bills

Unless you become a preacher

Its a miracle! you've all been healed! Haaaalleluya

[shoes]

17 So I hated life, because the work that is done under the sun was grievous to me. All of it is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.

18 I hated all the things I had toiled for under the sun, because I must leave them to the one who comes after me.

19 And who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will have control over all the work into which I have poured my effort and skill under the sun. This too is meaningless.

20 So my heart began to despair over all my toilsome labor under the sun.

21 For a man may do his work with wisdom, knowledge and skill, and then he must leave all he owns to someone who has not worked for it. This too is meaningless and a great misfortune.

22 What does a man get for all the toil and anxious striving with which he labors under the sun?

23 All his days his work is pain and grief; even at night his mind does not rest. This too is meaningless.

24 A man can do nothing better than to eat and drink and find satisfaction in his work. This too, I see, is from the hand of God,

25 for without him, who can eat or find enjoyment?

26 To the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge and happiness, but to the sinner he gives the task of gathering and storing up wealth to hand it over to the one who pleases God. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.

That's interesting. A shame it goes on about god in the last 3 lines, how did a wise writer come to believe in fairy tales. A shame.

[mrdonuts]

the bench is more of a stack operating in LIFO mode

[d000hg]

No, I went into IT to make a living.

I feel sorry for people who spend every day doing something they don't enjoy, just to stay alive.

[d000hg]

Ecclesiastes is the 1 book of the bible that everybody should read. It's
-short
-quotable
-written by someone who really didn't get on with religion, and gloriously un-happyclappy.

If you like that, try Job. It's a barrel of laughs.

[Paddy]

sad but true

I see not hope of improvement until we have a general erection.

[basshead]

Is this the thread for smug people with long contracts, cracking rates and a client that wants their babies?

My mistake...

And I don't do queueing ;-)

[BrilloPad]

sad but true

But why are you still at the back of the queue? Are there queue jumpers?

[thunderlizard]

Ecclesiastes is the 1 book of the bible that everybody should read. It's
-short
-quotable
-written by someone who really didn't get on with religion, and gloriously un-happyclappy.

[newblood]

For all those on the bench I can only sympathise.
However now is the time to regain your passion for what you do.
You loved IT once, which is why you went into it, didn't you?
So learn something fun and new - find yourself and your passion again.

that is so true , so sad that the previous muppets brought you such an image..

[Sysman]

17 So I hated life, because the work that is done under the sun was grievous to me. All of it is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.

18 I hated all the things I had toiled for under the sun, because I must leave them to the one who comes after me.

19 And who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will have control over all the work into which I have poured my effort and skill under the sun. This too is meaningless.

20 So my heart began to despair over all my toilsome labor under the sun.

21 For a man may do his work with wisdom, knowledge and skill, and then he must leave all he owns to someone who has not worked for it. This too is meaningless and a great misfortune.

22 What does a man get for all the toil and anxious striving with which he labors under the sun?

23 All his days his work is pain and grief; even at night his mind does not rest. This too is meaningless.

24 A man can do nothing better than to eat and drink and find satisfaction in his work. This too, I see, is from the hand of God,

25 for without him, who can eat or find enjoyment?

26 To the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge and happiness, but to the sinner he gives the task of gathering and storing up wealth to hand it over to the one who pleases God. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.

The chap obviously didn't live in the UK, then.

Mallorca perhaps?

[wantacontract]

that you'll never find a job again....

then you get one....

hopefully...

[oracleslave]

I like OS for a SH cheater he's brill!

eye-gouging world champion