Work til you drop
Unfettered capitalism wrote an article about how you should slave away at an unfulfilling job for more years.
Honestly, the first comment nails it: as long as you are getting out and being social, have interesting things to do with your brain (hobbies and interests), eat well and get a reasonable amount of exercise, I don’t see this being a problem. I think we need to explore more the deepening loneliness of our current culture and why this seems to affect men more acutely. The solution shouldn’t be: work more! The solution should be: how do we build community and maintain ourselves mentally and physically into our old age?
Reviews
My #DIETY am I tired of being asked to leave a review!
I went to dinner with friends and was asked three days in a row to leave a review.
I ordered takeout online for the kids and received two emails in less than 24 hours asking me to leave a review.
The most egregious ask of all has to be the review I was asked to write about my voluntary participation in a PLS study at the hospital. I have been asked no less than THREE times to answer this questionnaire. What, praytell, would I be reviewing? My own ability to do the 6 minute walk test? How many sit-to-stands I can do? It’s out of control.
I also know that anything less than 5 stars may as well be a failing grade for corporations but how did we even get here? The black-and-white nature of our “winner takes it all” culture has sucked all of the nuance out of everything.
[Don’t even get me started about the server who kept apologizing for their crappy service (and it was mediocre), then spinning the point-of-sale machine towards me with the “20% tip” option pre-chosen. I never tip less than that anyway but I was tempted to finagle the machine back to a 0% after that stunt]
