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skitch

climber
East of Heaven
Topic Author's Original Post - Sep 30, 2014 - 03:15pm PT
Would you rather:

Live where you love and have a job you really don't like

Or

Have a job you like and live someplace you are "okay" with?
pc

climber
Sep 30, 2014 - 03:17pm PT
Job because Supertopo is everywhere...
anita514

Gym climber
Great White North
Sep 30, 2014 - 03:52pm PT
Location
F*#k jobs
Evel

Trad climber
Nedsterdam CO
Sep 30, 2014 - 03:59pm PT
I'm going with Location. I can work anywhere.
MisterE

Gym climber
Bishop, CA
Sep 30, 2014 - 04:04pm PT
Don't be a slave to culture.

Location, and figure out how to make it work - the universe supports your decision to live in a better place.



skitch

climber
East of Heaven
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 30, 2014 - 04:37pm PT
I think I'm just not made for a world that requires me to work. . .at least not in todays work culture.

If I was a caveman I would be a hunting fool, and dead 10 years ago. . .
AerialElf

Trad climber
Squamish, BC
Sep 30, 2014 - 04:46pm PT
Location! Would hate to live in a place I didn't like. I am lucky - my work goes with me everywhere I go. I also hate to have a job I don't like. Been there, done that. No more.
jstan

climber
Sep 30, 2014 - 04:46pm PT
I think I'm just not made for a world that requires me to work
Sk

The world also fails to require you to be alive.
Daphne

Trad climber
Northern California
Sep 30, 2014 - 05:37pm PT
Supposedly
A fifth more deaths happen on a Monday and it is the most common day to die of a heart attack.
I think its because of all the people going back to jobs they hate. If i had to choose, Id pick work i love so i have more years in my life to get away to places i love.

Thanks for the reminder that I am so dang lucky to be doing work i passionately love while living in such a beautiful area
Kalimon

Social climber
Ridgway, CO
Sep 30, 2014 - 05:42pm PT
If you had the good fortune of being around SW Colorado the last three weeks, you would answer location!

mike m

Trad climber
black hills
Sep 30, 2014 - 06:09pm PT
Location w/o a job gets a little tough. I would say it is on a continuum.
this just in

climber
north fork
Sep 30, 2014 - 06:13pm PT
You sure do ask a lot of questions Skitch. Nothing wrong with that. I go with location.

Moose your first response cracked me up.
anita514

Gym climber
Great White North
Sep 30, 2014 - 06:19pm PT
I think I'm just not made for a world that requires me to work

Same here.
I think work is overrated.

Skitch is like American Avery with all his questions.
MisterE

Gym climber
Bishop, CA
Sep 30, 2014 - 06:23pm PT
They are good questions, sometimes...
Flip Flop

Trad climber
Truckee, CA
Sep 30, 2014 - 06:35pm PT
Location.
You can always change jobs but you can't ask mountains to grow in the suburbs. Don't all jobs kinda suck anyway? If you say work then I think that you've already lost. A career is a job that takes too long. My work has its rewards but each finished job brings back the joys of the first day of summer. Today, again, ii am free of work's schedule. Listen to the MooseJoy caused from seeing his job fade in the rear view.

Han-shan has his critics too:
‘Your poems, there’s nothing in them!’
I think of men of ancient times,
Poor, humble, but not ashamed.
Let him laugh at me and say:
‘It’s all foolishness, your work!’
Let him go on as he is,
All his life lost making money.

matlinb

Trad climber
Albuquerque
Sep 30, 2014 - 08:21pm PT
I would be in the minority, but a decent job goes a long, long, way. I have had a few in life that ate away at me. Many places are what you make of it. Of course, I assume you are not talking about the midwest or North Dakota or something like that.
ß Î Ø T Ç H

Boulder climber
extraordinaire
Sep 30, 2014 - 08:53pm PT
The weekend warriors always seem to get after it better than the locals do.
bergbryce

climber
East Bay, CA
Sep 30, 2014 - 09:02pm PT
In Anchorage you can have both.
Dapper Dan

Trad climber
Menlo Park
Sep 30, 2014 - 09:05pm PT
I agree with you mat...I don't see why the two need to be mutually exclusive , but work has many transcendental values . Self worth , being useful and needed by others, contributing to society , or at least participating . We derive value and self meaning through our careers , and yes I make the distinction between a career path and just some job to make ends meet.

That being said , I'm already looking forward to retirement !
Risk

Mountain climber
Olympia, WA
Sep 30, 2014 - 09:27pm PT
If I could start over, I'd say location. Instead, I'm stranded by kids in high school, a great house, and a great job in a reasonable location, minus my best friends. Could be much worse.

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