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How to Avoid Work
How to Avoid Work
Reilly
1949
I was so excited to hear about this title! I am sure many of us would LOVE to avoid work, at least sometimes. Not so fast, everyone. This isn’t as awesome as you might think. This is a career guide using the theme of “do what you love and you will never work a day in your life”. Sure. I love my job and most librarians I know love the work too. (Must be all that money, power, and prestige.) Doesn’t mean that we don’t need days off or every day is trouble free.
I do get what the author is trying help people understand and there are many career books from more modern times that also use this theme. Perhaps those might be a better choice in a modern career collection.
Mary
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Help your precious snowflake get a job
I’m making my usual round of humour websites this morning instead of working on the pair of term papers due this week. Apparently the internet is trying to tell me something.
A long time ago I read a comic strip showing a pro baseball player saying, “Happy is the man whose work is also his hobby.” Even at the time I thought, doing the same thing over and over with no change would get tiresome.
I love my job, but I’m sorry, it’s still work. I’m pretty sure farmers think their work is work, too.
Mel: I’m doing the same thing. At my job that I love. I apparently need to read How to Get Busy.
@Mel: Same idea here.
WRT the book, the “National Institute for Straight Thinking” sounds like an anti-gay superPAC.
As for the mother washing diapers — yuck! fortunately we have other choices now — I would venture to say that she would gladly not do that anymore if she didn’t have to. If you truly think standing over a steaming tub of dirty diapers is not work, you need your head examined (or, you could go join the Humanure people…) You can do work out of love but it will still be work. Let’s see, can I think of something that might be work but wouldn’t seem like it…yes, riding someone’s horses so that they get exercise. OTOH that is so unlikely to seem like work to anyone whatsoever that it is not likely to receive a paycheck. Yes, “do what you love, the money will follow” — but it may follow at quite a distance and in a very small vehicle LOL.
Funny Judith : )
I’m a librarian and I love my job, but I agree that I still consider myself a “working professional.” The title alone is a good reason to weed it. The editor really should have worked with the author on presentation since the content isn’t all that bad. Also, chapters I through IV should be in the introduction. That may have been where the problem started!
I think a person who sits near me at work wrote a similarly-titled book, and it meant how to literally avoid work… Although, how they summoned up the energy to write just a page would be counter to the message…
Check out this post on BrainPickings about this very book – presents a slightly different view of it.
http://bit.ly/12dQEBT