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Nothing weird here mate!
Job satisfaction should be considered a basic human right!

Originally Posted by soundman

Nothing weird here mate!
Job satisfaction should be considered a basic human right!

Absolutely

Good on you!!

As one of my Vietnamese friends (race only included to add an air of inscrutability!) says: "My wealthiest friends are often the ones with the least money."

Looks like you're on the road to true wealth.

P (who believes the old Confucian addage, heavily paraphrased: Give a man a job he loves, and he'll never work a day in his life!)

Excellent!! Congratulations!

I'm stuck where you were, but every now & then I get a great, paying job in the medium I enjoy & it's a feeling to good for words.

Thanks, gents.
Will trot off to bed now with warm, happy glow.

Rusty.

Rusty,
Well done. Sleep soundly.

Perhaps you put into words what lots of us are thinking.

Well done, Rusty. The secret to true happiness is to find something you enjoy doing, then find someone to pay you to do it.

(Insert inscrutable smilie here)

Good on ya Rusty...need a green with envy emoticon.

HH.

Hi Rusty,i can certainly relate to what you have done,i was a farmer before i got into the wood industry and knew nothing about it,started by restoring antiques then taught my self to do some wood turning for missing pieces.Slowly started making some c--p pieces from pine but soon graduated to some baltic floor boards and built me first book case which took ages,only an electric hand plane and a belt sander and of course the old trusty triton.
I used only recycled timber for every thing,furniture and cottage kitchens but felt like i was in a rut and not happy with my life so i bit the bullet and moved to Tassie and have never looked back being in this wonderful wood paradise and heaps of oportunuty to fill my yard with beautiful timber,so i am now the happiest i have ever been in all my life.
To me being happy in your self with what you do is the most precious thing there are so many out there who hate their job but just for the sake if $$$ to pay the bills............I have worked all my life to be this poor but have no regrets................

Kind Reguards Tasman..........

Originally Posted by soundman

Nothing weird here mate!
Job satisfaction should be considered a basic human right!

I'm going to be a bit annoying and point out that there are some pretty awful jobs out there that somebody has to do. If everybody expected job satisfaction then we would have a lot of problems.

I suppose I'm talking from guilt here as I enjoy my job and have a place in life where job satisfaction is important to me and if I wasn't happy I have the wherewithall to go somewhere else. I'm "glad" there are people either worse off than me or who are not concerned with job satisfaction who can do the grotty jobs.

PS Good on ya Rusty for having the courage to do what inspires you, I'd hope I'd do the same if I had to.

Looks like a desire to be free and engaged in meaningful work is pretty universal. This is good. I should be fair and add that I was probably largely to blame if I'd painted myself into a corner. Life dealt me as fair a hand as anyone and I don't mean to sound hard done by- not that it has been implied by anyone, of course.

I believe, however, that job satisfaction isn't just about doing something you like, in terms of job description. It has alot to do with the people you work with, the level of frustration if dealing with poor procedure for example; the amount of control you have over your own life. I cleaned bricks for a builder mate before christmas and that's bloody grotty. But it was cool cos I was paid fairly and not treated like a goose. I also reckon that not all grotty jobs are necessary, some are bloody pointless wastes of human lives.

Anyway, in my first post I guess I was preaching the redeeming and saving power of timber- hallelujah! And even though I wouldn't have said this when I was an angry young man, I kind of like people now. Everyone who is able to should do something to support themselves, but we are all too good for drudgery.

Thanks again for all the kind words, and if this thread provokes any negative responses, then fire away, I won't be offended. (Like anyone needs to be told ).

Cheers,
Rusty the anonymous.

Hey Rusty, have a look here:

http://www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com...ight=hours+day

I'm still going, just paid the BAS, cashed up the family and I'm broke again but I'm a lot less stressed and sleep well at nights. Go for it.

Cheers

Originally Posted by simon c

there are some pretty awful jobs out there that somebody has to do.

Ironically it would appear that there is usually someone who just loves that job!!

Saw a brilliant little doco-thing a few years ago called the worst job in the world, which took a trip from mining to office work to street work to meatworks to maggot farming to farming ....you get the picture, and all who were featured just loved what they were doing. At the end of each little sequence the featured person would say..."but I'd really hate to be a...."

It was terrific and gave me hope that all the while those nasty little jobs will get done by someone who loves them to bits!

If anyone knows where I can get a copy I'd love to see it again!

Cheers,

P