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flaneur

266 karma · joined December 11, 2008

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flaneur··on I don't want to work very hard
Ah, I follow your blog. Tried out TimeSvr after your review. I'm going to ponder my options for a few weeks. I may be in touch, but thanks for extending an invitation in any case.
flaneur··on I don't want to work very hard
Fair enough. For what it's worth, I've never received a negative performance review or been told I was underachieving. Maybe that sounds like a "Ooh, I'm a 10x rock star!" boast, but I think it more likely my work environments have been undemanding.
flaneur··on I don't want to work very hard
Huh. Somehow it had not occurred to me to try to make this cycle explicit. That's a really interesting idea, thank you.
flaneur··on I don't want to work very hard
Why would you want it? Can't you be happy without it?
flaneur··on I don't want to work very hard
Just surf around... stuff like scraping and reposting blogs, domain parking, spam, affiliate marketing. Not always outright evil, but they do make the world a slightly worse place.
flaneur··on I don't want to work very hard
Walking (hence the username), reading, languages (human or code), hacking roguelikes and muds, knitting. Doesn't sound like much when I just list them, but I can happily spend a roughly infinite amount of time on them.
flaneur··on I don't want to work very hard
Yeah, my current expenses are a little under 20k/y. It's how I affored the idleness between jobs, and I've stretched it as long as I can.
flaneur··on I don't want to work very hard
I haven't been enterprise IT, but I have been an enterprise dev. That was the place I got away with 2h per week.

The problem is that not all my hobbies are digital, so I couldn't pursue them while 'at work'. And I just grew to resent the 38h sitting and 15h commuting per week.