approximately how much of your time have you wasted so far?
$Zero
1. none
2. 10%
3. 25%
4. 50%
5. 75%
6. 90%
5. 100%
and on what?
(in general).
-$Zero...
do you know anyone who isn't brainwashed in some major way?
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boots
>approximately how much of your time have you wasted so far?
What qualifies as wasting time? What else is it good for?
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$Zero
> "$Zero" <zeroi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >approximately how much of your time have you wasted so far?
>
that's up to you to decide, isn't it?
well, that's what the question was meant to ask, anyway.
i suppose that someone else could easily decide what qualifies as
wasting your time, but even if you thought about it from that point of
view, you could still quantify it percentage-wise.
> What else is it good for?
not wasting it?
personally, i'm pretty certain that some things are a much bigger
waste of my time than others.
YMMV.
-$Zero...
a writer is just someone who expresses stuff
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Towse
> approximately how much of your time have you wasted so far?
>
> 1. none
>
> 2. 10%
>
> 3. 25%
>
> 4. 50%
>
> 5. 75%
>
> 6. 90%
>
> 5. 100%
>
> and on what?
>
> (in general).
Time is never wasted.
Unless you're unhappy with your current here-and-now.
If you are unhappy, change.
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Bill Penrose
> approximately how much of your time have you wasted so far?
If I knew on what, it wouldn't have been wasted.
DB
john.ku...@sympatico.ca
Time cannot be wasted because it cannot be saved. Efforts can be
wasted, but the time it takes to execute them is not wasted because
you still get a result.
$Zero
<john.kulczy...@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> $Zero wrote:
> > approximately how much of your time have you wasted so far?
>
> > 1. none
>
> > 2. 10%
>
> > 3. 25%
>
> > 4. 50%
>
> > 5. 75%
>
> > 6. 90%
>
>
> > and on what?
>
> > (in general).
>
> > -$Zero...
>
> > do you know anyone who isn't brainwashed in some major way?
> > http://groups.google.com/group/misc.writing/msg/e7e5cefd6783b71a
>
> Time cannot be wasted because it cannot be saved.
Henry Ford would certainly take issue with that assessment.
> Efforts can be wasted, but the time it takes to execute them
> is not wasted because you still get a result.
so what you're saying is that working for minimum wage is never a
waste of time.
hmmm...
-$Zero...
what advice would you give yourself?
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$Zero
> $Zero wrote:
> > approximately how much of your time have you wasted so far?
>
> > 1. none
>
> > 2. 10%
>
> > 3. 25%
>
> > 4. 50%
>
> > 5. 75%
>
> > 6. 90%
>
>
> > and on what?
>
> > (in general).
>
> Time is never wasted.
never?
yikes.
> Unless you're unhappy with your current here-and-now.
but that only applies to the here-and-now.
> If you are unhappy, change.
so if you've been "unhappy" with a bunch of heres-and-nows would those
not be considered an amount of wasted time?
and if you added them all up, would they not equate to something other
than "never"?
...
so anyway, allow me to rephrase the question:
what percentage of all of your past heres-and-nows have you been
"unhappy" with?
-$Zero...
the control freaks who control you
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$Zero
i take it you've successfully given up watching and reading most of
the media?
and other such gems of premium time-wasting?
-$Zero...
thanks to modern advances in publishing and whatnot...
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john.ku...@sympatico.ca
It may be a waste of effort. The effort could be used for other
things. the time was all ways there and is not influenced + or - by
the effort.
$Zero
>
> approximately how much of your time have you wasted so far?
>
> 1. none
>
> 2. 10%
>
> 3. 25%
>
> 4. 50%
>
> 5. 75%
>
> 6. 90%
>
probably somewhere between 25 and 50%.
> and on what?
lots and lots of stupid stuff.
mind you, being a creative genius, i've always been able to extract
some sort of "value" from all of the amazing amounts of time i've
wasted, but that's besides the point.
> (in general).
in general i consider any time i've spent which i could have otherwise
spent with family (and/or good friends) to be mostly a waste of my
time.
which means i've probably wasted more like 75% of my time.
-$Zero...
things that make me want to be a better person
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Pies de Arcilla
> On Aug 17, 2:55 pm, "Koolchi...@smurfsareus.xxx"
>
>
>
> <john.kulczy...@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> > $Zero wrote:
> > > approximately how much of your time have you wasted so far?
>
> > > 1. none
>
> > > 2. 10%
>
> > > 3. 25%
>
> > > 4. 50%
>
> > > 5. 75%
>
> > > 6. 90%
>
> > > 7. 100%
>
> > > and on what?
>
> > > (in general).
>
> > > -$Zero...
>
> > > do you know anyone who isn't brainwashed in some major way?
> > > http://groups.google.com/group/misc.writing/msg/e7e5cefd6783b71a
>
> > Time cannot be wasted because it cannot be saved.
>
> Henry Ford would certainly take issue with that assessment.
>
> > Efforts can be wasted, but the time it takes to execute them
> > is not wasted because you still get a result.
>
> so what you're saying is that working for minimum wage is never a
> waste of time.
>
> hmmm...
Working for free _may_ be wasted. Working for money is _probably_ not
wasted. Working for minimum wage is probably not wasted, although a
talented person might be underutilized.
I have spent most of my life being highly inefficient, but none of it
was wasted in retrospect, because it got me where I am today.
$Zero
well then, a penny for your thoughts on this next idea:
in the current economy, what is the absolute lowest amount of money
you would agree to work for per hour?
1. $100
2. $50
3. $15
4. $5
5. $1
6. $0.05
7. $0.01
> Working for minimum wage is probably not wasted,
so we'll put you down for $7.50 an hour?
ok.
> although a talented person might be underutilized.
"might"?
> I have spent most of my life being highly inefficient, but none of it
> was wasted in retrospect, because it got me where I am today.
that's one way to look at it, i suppose.
-$Zero...
freedom! (20 percent off)
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$Zero
indeed.
> the time was all ways there and is not influenced + or - by
> the effort.
i'm sure that might make some sort of remote sense if the time in
question was some independent theoretical something or another and not
an extremely personal resource of your very own.
-$Zero...
the complex vs. the simple
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john.ku...@sympatico.ca
The problem is that you think that time belongs to you.
It does not.
It passes if you are alive or dead. You have no control over it. you
only have control over the things you do in the period when you are
concious of time passing.
When you sleep, you have no perception of time.
$Zero
yikes.
well, i'd love to take a few moments to clear this all up for you
right now, but i'm running a little late for my Sunday poker game.
i'll see if i can fit you in later on this afternoon.
> It passes if you are alive or dead. You have no control over it. you
> only have control over the things you do in the period when you are
> concious of time passing.
>
> When you sleep, you have no perception of time.
dream on.
-$Zero...
this post contains no opinions
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Pies de Arcilla
Whatever I can get, from $0 to $n. I wouldn't (or shouldn't) put up
with a job for any wage if I don't like it.
I doubt I would be able to find a minimum wage job if I tried. When I
went looking for a job a few years ago, with no college degree,
experience, or > 1 week employment over a decade, I easily found a job
paying about $9/hr. And that was in upstate NY, an area that
politicians have compared to Appalachia in economic terms.
$Zero
so you would work for a penny an hour if that's all that you could
get?
seriously?
that's pretty cool.
a penny an hour.
wow.
> I wouldn't (or shouldn't) put up with a job for any wage if I don't like it.
LOL.
> I doubt I would be able to find a minimum wage job if I tried.
oh, i'm sure they're out there somewhere.
> When I
> went looking for a job a few years ago, with no college degree,
> experience, or > 1 week employment over a decade, I easily found
> a job paying about $9/hr.
how many pennies is that per minute?
> And that was in upstate NY, an area that
> politicians have compared to Appalachia in economic terms.
well, yeah, i would guess that for $9/hr you could probably live a
reasonably comfortable life in a tent somewhere in the mountains.
(provided you could hitch-hike into town every day, on time).
of course, you could probably save up quite a bit of a nice nest egg
if you just worked 16 hours a day/7 days a week and your employer
allowed you to sleep the other 8 hours off in the back of his car --
and allowed you to take showers in one of the business bathrooms.
and if by chance there were only sinks (and no tubs) on site, you
could just use a washcloth to wipe yourself down instead of going for
the whole showering thinger.
or you could find a non-iced-over lake somewhere to bathe in.
(assuming there was no swimming ban because of all of the industrial
pollution -- and of course no expensive entry fee to access the lake).
-$Zero...
a nation full of whiners
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Towse
Doesn't matter. What matters is whether you're unhappy here-and-now.
If you are unhappy, change.
If not, =everything= that has gone before, every choice you made, every
moment spent, every kiss, every kiss declined, every choice made at a
fork in the road has brought you to the here-and-now and wasn't wasted.
If you're happy.
If you are unhappy, change. Reshuffle the cards. Redeal the deck. Either
change the circumstances or how you react to them.
$Zero
that must be why you don't want to estimate it.
> What matters is whether you're unhappy here-and-now.
so you can't learn from history?
> If you are unhappy, change.
really?
wow.
cool.
...
anyway, i guess that considering how much time you've wasted in the
past and what you wasted it on would be utterly useless information
for someone looking to change, huh?
> If not, =everything= that has gone before, every choice you made, every
> moment spent, every kiss, every kiss declined, every choice made at a
> fork in the road has brought you to the here-and-now and wasn't wasted.
that's sounds like a bit of denial in action.
> If you're happy.
>
> If you are unhappy, change.
neato!
> Reshuffle the cards. Redeal the deck.
when the going gets tough, the tough go to the casino?
> Either change the circumstances or how you react to them.
hmmm...
once a smart-ass, always a smart-ass.
fuck'em if they can't take a joke.
-$Zero...
things change
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Ash Wensdee
must suffer, like this:
>approximately how much of your time have you wasted so far?
>
>1. none
>
>2. 10%
>
>3. 25%
>
>4. 50%
>
>5. 75%
>
>6. 90%
>
between here and
>5. 100%
>
>and on what?
Masturbation in various forms.
>
>(in general).
>
>
>-$Zero...
>
> do you know anyone who isn't brainwashed in some major way?
> http://groups.google.com/group/misc.writing/msg/e7e5cefd6783b71a
--
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sounds like fun
Ash Wensdee
Pies de Arcilla
I will do volunteer work, i.e. work for _zero_ pennies per hour. But
saying I will work for $x per hour is not the same as saying I would
take _any_ job for $x per hour.
A couple years ago I did volunteer work in lieu of a normal college
internship. I was persistent until I found an office at a local
hospital that would give me mindless, boring work that the secretary
didn't want to do, and I treated it like a real job. It got me both
references and something to put on my resume. Not to mention practice
overcoming my social phobia. That was worth more than cash.
> > I wouldn't (or shouldn't) put up with a job for any wage if I don't like it.
>
> LOL.
>
> > I doubt I would be able to find a minimum wage job if I tried.
>
> oh, i'm sure they're out there somewhere.
I think that most of the entry level jobs at fast food or retail
places around here pay a bit more. The last time I worked for minimum
wage was when I tried doing unskilled construction work - day labor.
But I don't think there's much of that around here anyway.
> > When I
> > went looking for a job a few years ago, with no college degree,
> > experience, or > 1 week employment over a decade, I easily found
> > a job paying about $9/hr.
>
> how many pennies is that per minute?
>
> > And that was in upstate NY, an area that
> > politicians have compared to Appalachia in economic terms.
>
> well, yeah, i would guess that for $9/hr you could probably live a
> reasonably comfortable life in a tent somewhere in the mountains.
If I was earning only $9, I would still be able to afford the
perfectly adequate downtown apartment I'm living in, which is $400/
month. If I was earning less, I might have to share an apartment with
someone.