It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. ... The life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully.
SenecaTags: life time usefulness waste employment purpose-of-life
...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.
Jane AustenTags: manners attitude employment enjoyment behavior propriety
It is the privilege of the rich
To waste the time of the poor
To water with tears in secret
A tree that grows in secret
That bears fruit in secret
That ripened falls to the ground in secret
And manures the parent tree
Oh the wicked tree of hatred and the secret
The sap rising and the tears falling.
Tags: rich work hope employment poor childe-rolandine
He was a man who was charged with the work he did in life because he was not one to ask questions - not so much on account of any natural quality of discretion as because he simply could never think of any questions to ask.
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On the strength of which he had guaranteed himself regular employment for as long as he cared to live.
Tags: humor employment
It's no accident that in a bureaucracy getting fired is called 'termination,' as in ontological erasure.
David Foster WallaceTags: employment job-losses kafkaesque white-collar
The thing about the Lexington International Bank ladder was that it was very long, and climbing it was very exhausting, and so Andrew Brown didn't have a lot of time to think about whether he really wanted to get to the top of it—and besides, since so many other people were climbing too, the view from the top must be worth it.
So he kept going. He worked hard. He put his heart and mind and soul into it. There was an opening for a position half a rung higher than he already was. With a promotion, he might get two hours a week of a secretary's time. He'd go to more important meetings, with more senior people, and have the opportunity to impress them, and if he did he might be promoted again and then... well, of course eventually he'd be running the whole office. It's important to have a dream: otherwise you might notice where you really are.
Tags: purpose work dreams desire employment herd-mentality promotion
Funny thing, employment. If you keep doing it, you keep getting paid.
N.K. JemisinTags: humor employment
A 'good job' can be both practically attractive while still not good enough to devote your entire life to.
Alain de BottonTags: life work employment jobs work-life-balance good-jobs
A man who will steal for me will steal from me." Theodore Roosevelt, dismissing on the spot one of his best cowhands who was about to claim for his boss an unmarked animal.
David McCulloughTags: honesty employment theft
Imprisonment is the form of punishment which may detrimentally affect not only the offender but also his family and his employment and because of its duration it can seldom be kept from becoming general public knowledge. It [...] can have a lasting demoralising effect on the character and personality of the offender. The loss of liberty, tedium, regimentation [...] which prison life entails, have a greater potentiality than a whipping for destroying the offender's self-esteem and the integrity of his character and for changing, for the worse, his way of life.
P.W. ThirionTags: liberty family self-esteem punishment law human-rights employment south-africa imprisonment south-african-law
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