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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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Forget commmercials. Most people I know/met lately seem to think anyone who isn't working 60-80 hour weeks is a 'loser'.
working 30-40 hours now is considered 'lazy'.
I don't even wanna do 30 a week. That's over a full day of time i could use for myself if i didn't need fucking money so badly. Those 60-80 willingly people are fucking nutso
Their breath smells of boot
I think it's fine to work 60-80 hours a week if you're in a place in your life where you don't have anyone to go home to and you can actually make more money off it (either as a contractor with an hourly rate, or a business owner). Not for long though, because it gets lonely.
Most people shouldn't work more than 40 though. Definitely if you have a family, go home and spend time with them. There's a saying in my language that translates to "work doesn't run away from you", as in, there will always be more work to do, but your toddler won't always be a toddler.
You probably can't change their mind, but you can remember that their opinion doesn't define you. And also you have just as much power over them (that which they grant you), which you can use to try to instill in them a sense of living their own life instead of working for the glory of the Corpos.
Not by me! I work my 40 and the rest goes my family. I'm lucky I can get by with 40.
Met a vet doc that disparaged a vet that leaves at 5: "8-5 and then she's gone. Nobody wants to work any more"
Who the fuck ever wanted to work on the first place. Bitch, we have to work.
Infuriating. The point of advancing society and dividing labor into specialties is so that we can create more for our world than if each of us tried to a little bit of everything (farming, crafting, medicine, etc.) beyond the small amounts we choose for joy or satisfaction. And then with that, we get to have more free time, because we actually only need so much to make our society work and improve at a reasonable pace.
The people who think we all need to bust our asses got hoodwinked by the ownership class into producing even more for their overlords.