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Dream Jobs of 2004
prostoalex writes "We've read about the worst jobs out there, the most overpaid ones, the worst job postings and the outsourcing tendencies. Can an article on employment in scientific and engineering fields can have a positive outlook? February issue of IEEE Spectrum talks about the dream ('coolest, baddest, hippest, grooviest') jobs, where people have fun and enjoy what they're doing. IEEE publication covered the dream jobs for Electrical Engineering majors only. The linked article is actually a story about 9 different people with 9 different jobs, each leading to a separate article."
Anything that adds more radio interference to the roadways, decreasing the reliability of police radar is great as far as I'm concerned. The device needn't bother me with alerts - I can drive. I just want a module that turns my car into a radar jammer, with a legal function to boot!
I know Germany has no first ammendment protections and you can be imprisoned for incorrect political and hate speech.
Score : -5 : Long misguided rant from leftist bastard
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...it was a poor country but there was so little stress and so much happiness to go around. People had time on their hands, they pursued a variety of things.
...need I go on? Why the fuck do you need to work so hard ? Screw the GDP, just take it easy & get a life. I mean, really, go to your local library, find a new hobby & actually practice it, not just dabble & escape to football on the weekends. Lobby the government to support a more diverse lifestyle, where, like Thoreau advocated, you can "live life deliberately", not just plain exist like you now do.
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I would phrase it thusly - you needn't have a job in the first place.
I come from a third world country where everybody has to have a job, else they'll soon die because they'll have no money, so no food, no shelter, no nothing.
My idea of a first world country like the USA was -
a. plenty of money to go around
b. very little need to work or to have a job.
c. simply pursue your natural inclination
d. an intelligent society
I'm not advocating Disneyland, or some decadent Roman society where everyone's screwing around. I mean, people living life like Aristotle advocated - "pursuit of reason" - pursue poetry, fine arts, sculpture, literature, philosophy, physics, astronomy,
Instead, this 1st world country is actually a hundred times worse than my 3rd world country. Atleast in a socialist nation, your jobs were sort-of guaranteed, you had lots of vacations & holidays, & you weren't stressed out. Here in the hire-n-fire crucible of the USA, GDP is the only thing sacrosanct, everybody works works works, NOT out of his choice but because people are burdened by sheer debt & bills & mortgages & a culture of overconsumption, President Bush proudly declares "we are the hardest working nation in the planet" ( how exactly is that a good thing ? ), the most welllknown intellectual of the nation on whom literally everything hinges is an ugly old bespactacled economist named Alan Greenspan, and people have such black-n-white partitions of life, like you do.
ie. Life = Lots of Work + Escape to Family on weekends/2-week Vacations
What about a variety, like in a socialist country.
eg.
Life = Some Work + Some Family + Some Arts + Some Sciences + Some hobbies + Some
every single day ?
Back in my country, you could have a conversation with the "average guy" that ranged all over the map - from philosophy to astronomy to films to music ( I mean deep music theory, tones & notes & so forth not junk Britney-Spears pop) to literature - Average guys took active part in theatre, sports, book clubs, sciences, solved puzzles,
Here you have terribly hardworking populace, so much opulence, much more stress, 15 foreclosures per 1000 households,
I told all this to a colleague of mine, a staunch first world American citizen, & he plays the Beatles record for me - "Get back Jojo! Get back to where you once belong!"
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