After sweeping 2 houses out and moving floor boards, for 8 hours straight, and working bloody hard, and then being told that, "I wasn't being fast enough", I've come to the conclusion that working to live eats balls. Seriously, if you've been to high school, are middle-class, and at least have some brains, but you're a brickies labourer, then you're a bloody idiot. I just cannot understand how you'd settle for just such a bull shit and pointless working life. Work is what defines us, IMO.

As some philosopher dude said, choose a career in something that you love to do and you will never have to work a day in your life.

I plan on getting into business and hopefully have my own business sometime in the near future.

See, I never really particularly liked that kind of thinking since if things go sour, which can happen, you not only end up hating your job, you also start hating the particular thing you love to do.

Well even maccas can't take in all the Arts graduates :P

Or slightly more seriously, I guess some people may find that academic life doesn't really suit them.

That's true, i know a few of my friends who were really academic. Did very well in school but had their hearts set on leaving in year 10 to become a tradesman.

Aside from a few select jobs, if you want to do what you enjoy, you also have to be damn good at it. There's a reason that Jane Narcist isn't an Actress and John Smartguy isn't a Philosopher.

People who can tolerate working as a Tradesman generally have it pretty good. I mean your back goes when you're 50, but it's financial security that doesn't require a whole lot of talent on the individual's part.

I would love to live to work but it's a shame I can't do it. I'm good at maths and subjects like that but I absolutley hate them and find them very boring. On the other hand I love other things but have no skills related to them that could get jobs in those kinds of areas. Bah I says.

I think I'm in a pretty similar position to Hello. Although I'm a casual labourer at the local tannery which is the worst shit ever!

But it's a means to an ends I guess. It's the only way I'm going to be able to get through uni. Plus it's pretty cool having money for once in my life.

Umm mate, it's not all that easy. I'm a Fitting and Turning apprentice, and it's not all so easy as that. Hopefully though all those old guys retire soon and I can get paid more(Or more likely as not companies will just get eveything made in China where there fitters get paid Aus$0.79 an hour).

But yeah the reson I'm doing it just cause it is a job I'm certainly not good enough at games to get paid for that nor does reading books pay very well etc, etc.

It's a good thing that I don't live off the money I make from Bi-Lo, as that piss all amount only just gets me by.

I didn't mean it was easy as such as it doesn't really require you to be exceptionally good at it because it's a job that few people want to do, yet there's alot of people that have to do it. Whereas being an actor/psychologist/whatever there's lots of people that want to do it, and few places for it, so naturally you have to be the best at it.

I didn't mean it as a putdown of the profession or anything

How about a combination of both?