10 quotes against work

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. -- Jerome K. Jerome

Whenever I get someone watching me performing a task, I quote this. They stop watching shortly after they get the meaning.

It isn't about more or less work. Everything you do is work in some way. It's really about motivation. That's the secret to getting things done.

"For us to work any other way was nuts. Uh, to us, those goody-good employees who worked cubicle jobs for bum paychecks and surfed the internet, and were bored all day long, were dead. I mean they were slackers. They had no vision. If we wanted something we just coded it. If anyone compiled twice they got 404'd so bad, believe me, they never rolled their own again."

— Goodhackers, 2008

Here's my definition: work is a necessary pain.

Fuck Yeah! Well said all of them.

You can take a simple decision: don't do anything you don't want to.

Just be sure to be aware of the full extent of the consequences. You may be surprised at how many times saying 'no' leads to very nice situations.

My definition of work: What you do in the meantime for other people who pay you to do it while you're trying to figure out how to arrange your life so you don't have to work.

I don't count projects I actually enjoy as work.