Re: New TECHWR-L Poll Question

Subject: Re: New TECHWR-L Poll Question
From: Bruce Byfield <bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 12:46:10 -0700

Robbie Cooper wrote:

My job is an enabler.


[snip]



Now that I think about it...I'm saddened to think that so many people define
themselves by what they do for a living.


Point (and joke) taken.

Still, as widespread as the division between work and personal time is - as necessary as it often it - I don't think it psychologically healthy.

As for people defining themselves by their work, that shouldn't be the only criterion, but it's a major one. Work is a third of most people's lives, and about half their waking lives for much of the week. While these fractions are a vast improvement over past conditions - or those of the Third World sweat shops - they are still far too large for me to want to waste them - or myself - unless I'm driven by sheer survival.

I know, I know: I'm talking Utopia. But still I persist in wondering what would happen if more people questioned these givens in our lives.


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Bruce Byfield 604.421.7177 bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com

"Wherever we go, we celebrate
The land that makes us refugees."
-The Pogues, "Thousands Are Sailing"


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