Why do we work?

I have been sat at my desk for 3.5 hours now, doing things to do with my football team, emailing my mates, checking out my money situation and now – writing this!

I could do all this at home but roughly I have earned over £55 this morning (before tax) and I have done NOTHING for it. If I had internet access I’d have added that to the list of time wasting activities but as this company is so sodding old fashioned you cant access any decent websites here! So why do we bother? I really want to be in a job which I love, where I don’t need to worry about how to waste my day, where I can sit at my desk, not look at the clock and then all of a sudden think “My god its time to go home” Instead, I am sat here thinking “1223, is that all, its not even sodding lunchtime yet”

In fact, it has taken an hour for me to write this much because I have been talking to my colleague about how rubbish work is! I have looked at other possibilities and I still am, including some possible web design work but don’t you just wish that you could just go to some huge job centre and say “I want to be xxx and I want to earn xxx” and by the end of the day you are in the job that you want to be doing earning what you want to earn? Obviously this would be within reason coz if I turned up and said I want to be a brain surgeon and I want to earn 425k a year that’d be a bit silly but if I could just say “I want to be a football agent and I want to earn at least 30k a year plus commission” I think that’s reasonable but to become a football agent you have to go through all sorts of exams which end up costing about 20k!! How the hell can I just do that? Talk about annoying

To become a driving instructor you have to pay nearly 3 grand to start out – I cant even afford that! We really do make it hard for everyone in this country to do what they want to do. The amount of students that qualify from Uni and then go and work in Bars and restaurants for years is unreal. I know a girl who is as bright as anything, she is very clever, she worked in McDonalds part time to pay her way through uni, she qualified, went travelling for a bit and when she came back took up her old job to pay her debts, that was 8 years ago, she is now a successful manager with lots of staff under her…. In her own restaurant….. of McDonalds……… yes that is an extreme case and kind of smacks of laziness on her part but in the less extreme cases its because the jobs simply aren’t out there so we have to stick to what we know in my case IT. It is so boring but its all I know and if I want to change career I have to take a huge pay cut which I cant afford to do, it’s a vicious horrible shitty circle but how do we get out of it?

I can kind of see the sense in people who just want to earn a couple of hundred grand really quickly and then give up work completely, I’d love that! Say you went on “Who wants to be a millionaire?” You win £125,000 most people, surely would give up work? I would, I would quit that very day, yes its only £125k No it wont cover the mortgage but so what? If you use the money wisely you can pay off the biggest debts and then train to be what you want to be but you need an influx of money to be able to do it, £125k is basically five years wages for me so yes even with that small an amount I would hang up my headset and get on with life!! Would you?