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Thought of the Day- Working and Creativity

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 A simple yet seeming unavoidable correlation has existed. The more hours I, and I will stretch this to most others as well, put in at our "regular" jobs, the less creative we are.  You go and work. You do a good, great, or even an ok job. You are putting in the hours to pay your bills. It's all going good. You walk away from work going "Damn I'm glad to get the fuck out of there." This is the main point. I throw my ass in a chair and watch YouTube videos or whatever else dicking around. I waste my time until I'm ready to go to bed. I have zero desire to do MORE work. Who the fuck wants to wake and work and go home to work? I mean, I do it sometimes but the more I force it, the shittier the results. If I feel like it, I do it and let it be if not. This is by far not the best idea. My thoughts on the matter are, I need to build something that makes it so I can quit or get hurt without worrying about $$$ for a little bit. That's the plan. 

Thought of the Day- Doing Something *Rant Alert*

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I hate my job. Most people, from what I've heard, share this sentiment to one degree or another. More than anything, I hate that I go to work and do a job, make ok money, come home so wrecked I don't want to "get in the grindset" and go to bed. Rinse and repeat ad nauseum and then every month I look at where I'm at, where we are at, and we are maybe, if it all went right, 0.1% ahead of where we were. What the fuck?  This is beyond frustrating seeing the same shit pop up and falling the same hole we have to dig out of that never seems to get any easier or any smaller. I KNOW some the problems and I accept that it's all my fault. I'm about as pissed at myself for taking so long to get to the point I'm now ready and 110% about to do something about it.  I had a really easy job for 6 years. Working as a manager for a pet store. Easy mode. It was comfortable. I wanted out a few times but stayed because it was just a little better or a little more certain th...