Work ethics & TSHTF

HEADER_RACK · Intermediate Crude Joined: Feb 15, 2007 Posts: 540

I have always been very competitve in my work life. I've always shown initiative in new projects and have taken the lead when I could. Some would have called me a workaholic with an undying devotion and loyalty to my company.
As of late that has all but disappeared. Now I just go through the motions never opting to do more than what is expected of me. I have lost all zeal for my job.
Instead my mind and focus is on prepping myself for TSHTF.My work life has taken a backseat. While to me this is a good thing, for in the end my prepping will ultimately do more for me than my job. I just thought it was a little strange on how a persons ingrained habits could do a complete turn around so fast and was wondering if this was happening to others besides myself.
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BigTex · Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2008 9:34 am Post subject: Re: Work ethics & TSHTF

Yes.
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eastbay · Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2008 9:42 am Post subject: Re: Work ethics & TSHTF

HH,
About a year after joining this website, and about two years after figuring out PO, I started planning and then made huge life changes (work, home, location, everything...) directed at managing this disaster in a more survivable fashion for my family.

There's still so much more to do, and there are ups and downs, but it feels nice to be trying and we're in a much better situation than before.
You're not alone with this realization.
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Ludi · Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2008 9:57 am Post subject: Re: Work ethics & TSHTF

I'm pretty darn lazy. I put in a few hours a day working for money, and a few hours a day working in the garden, on construction projects, etc. Spend a lot of time resting, and usually take a nap in the afternoon (not always).
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Cashmere · Light Sweet Crude Joined: Mar 27, 2008 Posts: 1971

Yes.
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like_the_dinosaurs · Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2008 10:09 am Post subject: Re: Work ethics & TSHTF

My partner. brother and I all moved out of a large city to a small town with our parents to prep. It took about a year of trying to find an answer before we arrived at this point.

I just could't apply myself at work anymore, watching the cars drive past while i was on my lunch breaks, i almost just drove off a few times.

I still work but only casual. That feeling will pass with time. I work well again because i know when the shtf the best workers will go last and the money is like being sponsored. lol

Perfectly normal.
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Chaparral · Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2008 10:49 am Post subject: Re: Work ethics & TSHTF

I used to be what I'd now describe as pathologically competitive. Id slit throats and eat babies to get overtime or another research project or acquire another property but since 2005 all that simply evaporated. Now I'll take siestas, pace myself, read for the fun of it and just slow down to a slow walk instead of sprinting through things. I sort of view whats coming as a 1000 mile marathon and the only way to survive will to sort of lean forward and trudge slowly.

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frankthetank · Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2008 11:26 am Post subject: Re: Work ethics & TSHTF

No change here. I was more interested in biking, hiking, gardening, fishing, smelling the flowers long before PO. I grew up valueing free time so working was just making enough to be able to afford to do the things i really love.
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FoolYap · Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2008 11:30 am Post subject: Re: Work ethics & TSHTF

For me it's some combination of:

1. Peak Oil

2. Getting older

3. Normal cynicism as I see how today's corporate crises become tomorrow's "who cares", and how "comp time" "earned" by responding to the former usually evaporates in the pressure to respond to the new crises du jour

4. Extreme cynicism as I see how most large corporations treat their ~~chattel~~ employees in the zeal to slice pennies and maximize executive perks

It's just really hard to take the job too seriously any more. I try to treat it seriously enough to stay employable if the status quo holds for awhile longer but the current gig offshores the last of our jobs. But I'd rather be prepping. Need the job to pay for the prepping though. Rolling Eyes

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jlw61 · Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2008 11:34 am Post subject: Re: Work ethics & TSHTF

I telecommute and work only hard enough to keep the paychecks coming, so that means I'm only doing twice as much as some of my peers. Laughing

I find that I'm no longer interested in putting in one minute more than 40 hours a week, punctuated with a lunch break on the latest prep project each day. Sometimes I find myself working on my prep spreadsheet instead of my work load. If my boss ever found out how unmotivated I am and still pumping out more work than two thirds of the crew, she'd spit out her teeth. Shocked

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HEADER_RACK · Intermediate Crude Joined: Feb 15, 2007 Posts: 540

Yes, some of us work to pay for our preps. Wouldn't it stand to reason though that the harder you worked the more money you make the more preps you should be able to do. Why then has my competive edge my will to strive to excell deminished in the work place. If anything it should drive me harder.
Like Roy though, I would rather be out preping instead of pushing papers at an office. Even though both serve as a means to an end.
Maybe I do not have the skills to multitask on two major aspects of my life. Preping for TSHTF which is monumental to say the least and at the same time trying to move foward in the work force.
Maybe it's that survival mechanism thats inside all of us is unable to focus on two totaly seperate paths that for most of us are at opposite ends of the spectrum that causes conflict within itself.
Who Knows?
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BigTex · Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2008 12:06 pm Post subject: Re: Work ethics & TSHTF

I've thought about approaching my job as if I were an actor in a TV show or movie and I was playing that role.

I think that's what a lot of people are doing and they don't even realize it.
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WildRose · Light Sweet Crude Joined: Jun 21, 2006 Posts: 1082

Don't get me started...I had a rough night at work last night.

Anyway, for me it's a combination of:

- wanting to do more at home/prepping/realizing what's more important, but still needing the paycheque

- mid-life

- the realization that my work may very well be obsolete in a few short years

One foot in front of the other!

Blacksmith · Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2008 12:37 pm Post subject: Re: Work ethics & TSHTF

I have concentrated on working for myself. I do not earn "big bucks", but I feel I do a better job both for my clients and for myself.
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