“If My Job Was to Wake Up, Masturbate and Go Back To Sleep, I’d Still Find A Way to Hate It”

Sadly, I can’t take credit for this TREMENDOUS quote, but I can say that I was in the conversation that prompted its delivery.

My friend J., who I met out for a drink last night, has, by any standard, a very cool job. He’s a sports radio commentator in South Florida. He works for a radio station that covers both the Marlins and the Panthers. Currently, he’s in New York, covering the Panthers/Rangers series at Madison Square Garden. He got here on a chartered plane and traveled with the team. He then got a free limo ride into the city to deliver him to his friend’s apartment. He is working for the next two days at Madison Square Garden and then he will travel to Long Island over the weekend to work at the Panthers/Islanders series. Then he will take the limo back to New Jersey and fly home, with the team, back to South Florida. This type of job is enough to make most guys I know insanely jealous. Yet, J. had reason to complain. And we got to talking. We all have reason to complain. All the time. No matter what our job is, no matter how glamorous it seems on the surface. Because let’s face it, at the end of the day, even if your job is just to wake up, masturbate and go back to sleep, so long as it carries the definition of job – something you have to do – you will find a reason not to like it. Or not like one thing about it. Or not like most things about it.

Which got me thinking about jobs in general since I have no idea what I want my next job to be. I’m trying to make my job be “writer,” but I, too, have found that by simply saying that I have to write every day, it’s much more difficult to actually do. I did so much better when I just wrote because I felt like it (which happens at least once a day.) So I think the point is effectively proven.

I really don’t have anything more to say about this, I just knew I needed to share this quote because it’s so fantastic.