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I’m having a hard time finding the will to work hard

I work with some folks who are really into work for the sake...
Vibrant temple boiling water
  02/02/21
have you ever read the novels of Miss Ayn Rand
odious stubborn gaping locale
  02/02/21
No. Will those help? I’m serious, I need to learn how...
Vibrant temple boiling water
  02/02/21
well her main novels (The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged) d...
odious stubborn gaping locale
  02/02/21
wtf. you decided to create your own irrelevant subthread?
Cracking library
  02/02/21
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Chrome Orchestra Pit Psychic
  02/02/21
Shut the fuck up faggot. It's relevant
Misunderstood grizzly sex offender
  02/02/21
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low-t aromatic lay
  02/02/21
Working hard in the abstract will never motivate anyone sane...
Rebellious dilemma ceo
  02/02/21
These people treat me like a slave and expect me to self-mot...
Vibrant temple boiling water
  02/02/21
You don't need to put up with that.
Rebellious dilemma ceo
  02/02/21
I need the money and have no other options, so yes, yes I do...
Vibrant temple boiling water
  02/02/21
You don't need the money: you've decided to subject yourself...
Rebellious dilemma ceo
  02/02/21
we're ultimately hunter-gatherers who are meant to do 3-4 ho...
razzmatazz balding kitty karate
  02/02/21
(Unabomber)
wonderful therapy lettuce
  02/02/21
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sable senate
  02/02/21
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Vengeful Indirect Expression
  02/02/21
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sable senate
  02/02/21
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Lake trump supporter theater
  02/02/21
sleep in your car for 2 weeks and live on $10 a day. that wi...
French windowlicker
  02/02/21
I’m inhouse and it’s insane how little work I do
Appetizing institution
  02/02/21
It's exceptionally hard when you're a lawyer. At least for m...
high-end 180 stage
  02/02/21
The hardest, most tedious work just stays on your desk for a...
Vibrant temple boiling water
  02/02/21
I know lawyers who come in, close their office door, and gri...
high-end 180 stage
  02/02/21
they're poasting.
Rebellious dilemma ceo
  02/02/21
...
White swashbuckling kitchen
  02/03/21
There are people like that in society. It's better you acce...
Vengeful Indirect Expression
  02/02/21
...
high-end 180 stage
  02/02/21
...
Vengeful Indirect Expression
  02/02/21
The dignity of work is an American myth.
Lake trump supporter theater
  02/02/21
you are simply realizing that the protestant work ethic is a...
citrine sinister station dysfunction
  02/02/21
If you have to work to keep living in the office you'll bust...
infuriating casino
  02/02/21
hype house
vigorous shivering mexican
  02/02/21
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Vengeful Indirect Expression
  02/02/21
...
infuriating casino
  02/03/21
...
sable senate
  02/03/21
Also, you're burnt out. Take a break.
Rebellious dilemma ceo
  02/02/21
(not a lawyer)
high-end 180 stage
  02/02/21
False. I know he won't take my advice, but it really is poss...
Rebellious dilemma ceo
  02/03/21
...
Cracking library
  02/03/21
aderall+lunesta (repeat every day for the rest of your life)
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Date: February 2nd, 2021 8:44 PM
Author: Vibrant temple boiling water

I work with some folks who are really into work for the sake of work. You know the whole concept of “work ethic.”

But, it’s hard for me.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4756606&forum_id=2#41875683)



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Date: February 2nd, 2021 8:45 PM
Author: odious stubborn gaping locale

have you ever read the novels of Miss Ayn Rand

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4756606&forum_id=2#41875685)



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Date: February 2nd, 2021 8:47 PM
Author: Vibrant temple boiling water

No. Will those help?

I’m serious, I need to learn how to just be one of those robots who revels in the pleasures of work for work’s sake. That is the expectation.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4756606&forum_id=2#41875700)



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Date: February 2nd, 2021 8:49 PM
Author: odious stubborn gaping locale

well her main novels (The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged) definitely have lots of pro-productivity ideas. i don't know if they'll help your specific situation, since i don't know your background, what you do or what your attitude towards your work is, but they might help and are worth reading in their own right

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4756606&forum_id=2#41875716)



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Date: February 2nd, 2021 11:08 PM
Author: Cracking library

wtf. you decided to create your own irrelevant subthread?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4756606&forum_id=2#41876539)



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Date: February 2nd, 2021 11:46 PM
Author: Chrome Orchestra Pit Psychic



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4756606&forum_id=2#41876756)



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Date: February 2nd, 2021 11:47 PM
Author: Misunderstood grizzly sex offender

Shut the fuck up faggot. It's relevant

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4756606&forum_id=2#41876764)



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Date: February 2nd, 2021 11:49 PM
Author: low-t aromatic lay



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4756606&forum_id=2#41876786)



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Date: February 2nd, 2021 8:50 PM
Author: Rebellious dilemma ceo

Working hard in the abstract will never motivate anyone sane. Man needs meaning to thrive!

You can raise a dog with food

You can keep a servant with money

But only purpose will motivate a man.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4756606&forum_id=2#41875728)



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Date: February 2nd, 2021 9:22 PM
Author: Vibrant temple boiling water

These people treat me like a slave and expect me to self-motivate myself to hang around and endure the mistreatment.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4756606&forum_id=2#41875929)



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Date: February 2nd, 2021 11:04 PM
Author: Rebellious dilemma ceo

You don't need to put up with that.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4756606&forum_id=2#41876516)



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Date: February 2nd, 2021 11:16 PM
Author: Vibrant temple boiling water

I need the money and have no other options, so yes, yes I do. I deserve it for being me. And that’s okay. I can accept it. I just need to learn how to smile and dance and tell a funny joke while I do the ol’ soft shoe in the corner like Mr Bojangles

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4756606&forum_id=2#41876582)



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Date: February 2nd, 2021 11:27 PM
Author: Rebellious dilemma ceo

You don't need the money: you've decided to subject yourself to this for this amount of money. You can quit. Even with no plan, you can quit and then figure something out. It's not worth it. If it's now or later, do it now. You only get one life.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4756606&forum_id=2#41876653)



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Date: February 2nd, 2021 9:23 PM
Author: razzmatazz balding kitty karate

we're ultimately hunter-gatherers who are meant to do 3-4 hours of intense yet stimulating work in a close-knit organic peer group early in the day and fuck off for the rest of it. we never biologically caught up to the world we made.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4756606&forum_id=2#41875935)



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Date: February 2nd, 2021 11:10 PM
Author: wonderful therapy lettuce

(Unabomber)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4756606&forum_id=2#41876547)



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Date: February 2nd, 2021 11:17 PM
Author: sable senate



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4756606&forum_id=2#41876587)



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Date: February 2nd, 2021 11:48 PM
Author: Vengeful Indirect Expression



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4756606&forum_id=2#41876773)



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Date: February 2nd, 2021 11:16 PM
Author: sable senate



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4756606&forum_id=2#41876586)



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Date: February 2nd, 2021 11:47 PM
Author: Lake trump supporter theater



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4756606&forum_id=2#41876763)



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Date: February 2nd, 2021 9:26 PM
Author: French windowlicker

sleep in your car for 2 weeks and live on $10 a day. that will motivate you.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4756606&forum_id=2#41875948)



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Date: February 2nd, 2021 11:11 PM
Author: Appetizing institution

I’m inhouse and it’s insane how little work I do

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4756606&forum_id=2#41876557)



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Date: February 2nd, 2021 11:30 PM
Author: high-end 180 stage

It's exceptionally hard when you're a lawyer. At least for me it is.

I like sales and did it before going to law school. The motivation to work is very directly connected to your income in a tangible way: make the sale, get paid. Make more sales, get paid more.

What incentive do I have to review some dense, boring as fuck legal document at 10pm and then discuss it with others? It's an atrocious way to live and I am completely unmotivated to do it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4756606&forum_id=2#41876665)



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Date: February 2nd, 2021 11:33 PM
Author: Vibrant temple boiling water

The hardest, most tedious work just stays on your desk for a week, then 2 weeks. It just sits.

It’s miserable coming in everyday and seeing that albatross sitting there.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4756606&forum_id=2#41876681)



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Date: February 2nd, 2021 11:36 PM
Author: high-end 180 stage

I know lawyers who come in, close their office door, and grind out work unflinchingly for hours. It blows my mind. Just hours on end alone in a room doing an incredibly boring, tedious, and somehow stressful job.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4756606&forum_id=2#41876701)



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Date: February 2nd, 2021 11:45 PM
Author: Rebellious dilemma ceo

they're poasting.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4756606&forum_id=2#41876748)



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Date: February 3rd, 2021 12:06 AM
Author: White swashbuckling kitchen



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4756606&forum_id=2#41876868)



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Date: February 2nd, 2021 11:49 PM
Author: Vengeful Indirect Expression

There are people like that in society. It's better you accept that they exist now in order to fight them.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4756606&forum_id=2#41876785)



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Date: February 2nd, 2021 11:51 PM
Author: high-end 180 stage



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4756606&forum_id=2#41876801)



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Date: February 2nd, 2021 11:48 PM
Author: Vengeful Indirect Expression



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4756606&forum_id=2#41876782)



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Date: February 2nd, 2021 11:47 PM
Author: Lake trump supporter theater

The dignity of work is an American myth.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4756606&forum_id=2#41876769)



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Date: February 2nd, 2021 11:50 PM
Author: citrine sinister station dysfunction

you are simply realizing that the protestant work ethic is an outdated calvinist intention. acts of service > working hard



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4756606&forum_id=2#41876791)



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Date: February 2nd, 2021 11:50 PM
Author: infuriating casino

If you have to work to keep living in the office you'll bust your ass and enjoy it

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4756606&forum_id=2#41876792)



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Date: February 2nd, 2021 11:52 PM
Author: vigorous shivering mexican

hype house

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4756606&forum_id=2#41876803)



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Date: February 2nd, 2021 11:52 PM
Author: Vengeful Indirect Expression



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4756606&forum_id=2#41876808)



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Date: February 3rd, 2021 12:41 AM
Author: infuriating casino



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4756606&forum_id=2#41876973)



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Date: February 3rd, 2021 1:00 AM
Author: sable senate



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4756606&forum_id=2#41877006)



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Date: February 2nd, 2021 11:52 PM
Author: Rebellious dilemma ceo

Also, you're burnt out. Take a break.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4756606&forum_id=2#41876812)



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Date: February 2nd, 2021 11:56 PM
Author: high-end 180 stage

(not a lawyer)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4756606&forum_id=2#41876826)



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Date: February 3rd, 2021 12:10 AM
Author: Rebellious dilemma ceo

False. I know he won't take my advice, but it really is possible to set boundaries. If you're really good and have high hours.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4756606&forum_id=2#41876885)



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Date: February 3rd, 2021 12:44 AM
Author: Cracking library



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4756606&forum_id=2#41876976)



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Date: February 3rd, 2021 1:03 AM
Author: Laughsome den roommate

aderall+lunesta (repeat every day for the rest of your life)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4756606&forum_id=2#41877013)



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Date: January 25th, 2026 2:55 PM
Author: Goy Cattle



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4756606&forum_id=2#49617688)