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Why Do You Do What You Do?
gnomexxx
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When you get up in the morning and you do what you do for the day, why do you do it?
Is it because of the money that motivates you? Or maybe you are still trying to indulge your parents and your family? Is it because you want to make yourself look impressive to the opposite sex? Or is it because you feel like if you don't do it then your religious icon or whatever will banish you from redemption?
Do you do what you do because you are scared of what you'd really like to be doing and think someone might figure you out unless you keep faking it? Or is it because you have that naive feeling in the back of your mind that someday it will all pay off, because you were always told that end game is what makes you and your name?
Or do you do what you do because you're afraid if you quit you will not cheat death for that day?
I honestly don't know why I do what I do anymore. Something keeps me doing it. But of late, I've begun to really question what it all means. I don't think I understand myself like I used to confidently feel like I did. At times, I don't even think I know who I really am inside anymore. At least not as much as I feel someone who is "sane" should. That scares me. But I still seem to do what I'm "supposed" to do each day. 
I'm just curious about you guys. Why do you keep doing relatively the same things each day? What keeps you going and doing what it is you do?
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It's because my nose is stuffed up.
"Put your foot where your mouth is." - Wisdom from my grandfather
"Paper or plastic? ... because I'm afraid I'll have to suffocate you unless you put this bag on your head..." - Ethnitrek
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I'm in college and I'm starting to get very apathetic about it. I'm not getting up and going to class and studying for tests and all of that because I'm trying to succeed...no... I'm doing it just so I don't have to get a job. That's my only motivation for being in school. For right now, I can avoid real life by staying in school.
Ironically, I may end up having to get a job to stay in school and either way will eventually have to get one to pay for it.
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I do what I do because I hate failing at something, and I don't want to enter the workforce. Granted, I use discretion when attending classes. I have no desire to hear TA's read from powerpoint, sue me. I feel like getting a bachelor's is a waste of time, but working 40 hours a week makes me feel sick at my stomach. I go to work everyday to support a multitude of vices, and it doesn't really bother me.
I guess I do what I do because AFV and a bowl will make you forget about all that bullshit.
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I do what I do because I hate college. I long for the days when a man could make a decent living in manufacturing without any education. I wasted about 2-3 years in college courses to be a paramedic only to find out it's a job I can't stand. Thought about law enforcement... but then quickly realized all civil/social service jobs are bound to suck equally. Now I think I'd like to just be some low level IT guy that makes about 40K a year and never have children and I'll be fine.
It seems my primary motivation to do anything now is if it's easy.
Hope you got your things together. Hope you are quite prepared to die. Looks like we're in for nasty weather. ... There's a bad moon on the rise.
gee you lot sound like a sad bunch, everyone goes through this at one stage or another. in fact i myself am not doing very much atm. i dropped out of college 5months ago and haven't done anything. it feels great..sometimes
but if you think that something is not right than it's really upto you to change it (i should take my own advice..). it sucks to be in a rut i know first hand, but it will pass and take some time to sort yourself out. sometimes you just have to break the routine, like go on a holiday or join a club, find a new hobby. do something stupid like join the airforce (my friend woke up one day and went straight to the recruitment office), but he seems to like it. the choices are yours to make, you have only yourself to please at the end of the day.
Because it's fun sometimes!
Because if I don't, the men come in the night and I disappear forever.
Because I'm bound to society?
I have no idea what I want to be and it's driving me nuts, I hate it when you ask people what they want to be, and they can answer you straight away. Whereas I simply shrug and say 'i have no idea'... I wish I knew what I wanted to be.
Perhaps thats why many of us play mmo's, to be something we're not, but I just wish I had a job I enjoyed going to.
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Sanity is overrated. It truly is. You're questioning the direction and the viability of your life. There are millions of people who nbever, do that but in the shallowest of ways.
In fact, in a way, you're lucky. You're pretty unbound to things now and are free to do whatever you want. That's what keeps me going.
You have plenty of time to evolve from the person you were to the person you will become, incorporating all your new experiences.
Many people never have the opportunity to rethink their lives and themselves.
You're supposed to do what you want. Get a nice job. ANd even then, get by with less. If you're reconsidering everything, then why not review your spendings. Afterwards you'll have a whole lot more freedom. Posession tends to bind you more than you realize.
Write a book. Learn how to program. Travel. Be glad you're not supposed to do anything anymore.
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Like many of the previous posters, I'm just in university to avoid 'real' life. working the 9-5 5 days a week seems like a hollow existence to me. The only way it would be tolerable would be if it was a job I was really passionate about. Too bad all those jobs are taken.
A lot of people are gonna call me an emo for this, but if my parents weren't around, I would probably jsut commit suicide. Not because I'm depressed ( far from it) but because I see no point in life and so I yearn to see if there's anything beyond death.
Because I have to. I live life longing for the day when I can say "life has finally begun". I know it sounds strange, but that's my primary motivation.
That said, I don't dislike life at all. For a nineteen year old, I feel I'm actually pretty successful, getting paid quite a bit simply for attending police academy and walking 'round Amsterdam in a uniform, occasionally stopping to talk to people.
But I still think, somehow, that one day I'll be able to say "life is awesome like it is now."
i love what i do for a living. as with any job it has it's good and bad times, but generally i'm pretty content with it. one of the strangest parts is the busiest days are usually the "best" days for me. working towards physical accomplishments and not just pushing paper is very rewarding to me.
i guess i'm just one of those motivated freaks of nature
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I do what I do because I hate the idea of sitting in a classroom listening to someone drone on about things that half the time don't even matter. I also do it because I'm reasonably good at it. It's a bit labouir intensive but it keeps me slimmer then when I don't work and pack on a pound or 2.
I stopped working for about 9 months and just lived off of my savings. The only problem with that is that while I was free to do what I want, all the other friends of mine had jobs and had no time to do "nothing". So naturally it got borring. So when I started working again it was nice. I think I need to find a company that will hire me but will give me about 3 months of vacation every year so that I can properly unwind and go do things I like.
Every so often I think about my choices in life, some good and some bad and I tend to kick my self now in retrospect. But I get over that quickly. What's been done is done and I can only move forward. I can always learn something new. Get a different job and so on. I think if you find something you like and the people you work with are awesome where you can get along with them and they have a relatively good or similar sense of humor as you you'd do a lot better. I say "if it's not fun, it's not worth doing" and I'm sticking by that motto. My last company stopped being fun so I just walked away. No sense in staying if it's just crap.
Try something new or different. Read a book about something you think you might be interested in or try something out of the ordinary, something you don't think you might like. For all you know you just might enjoy it.
No required quests! And if I decide I want to be an assassin-cartographer-dancer-pastry chef who lives only to stalk and kill interior decorators, then that's who I want to be, even if it takes me four years to max all the skills and everyone else thinks I'm freaking nuts. -Madimorga-
I do what i do both because the money is great and because i actually enjoy my job as it takes me around the country so its diverse and different from job to job.
Ive only worked 5 months this year and ive made 50k, what more would i want. Imagine if i actually worked all year, which i dont because the weeks are 60-80 ish hour working weeks, which is why i have big breaks between contracts to rest up.