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Swim4life
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 Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 7:23 pm Post subject: Find a job you like... |
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I like teaching my adult students English through some motivational quotes. I have just come across a quote, "'Find a job you like, and you add five days to every week."
If I understand it right, it means that if you love your job, five working days are not enough for you, you need to add five days more. Is that right? |
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Philo Kevetch
Joined: 01 Feb 2006
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| Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 10:31 pm Post subject: |
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Hello Swim4life - A good guess...but no.
If you work at a job you don't like 5 days a week,
it's as though you have 'lost' those days from your life.
(your days at work are 'subtracted' from your life)
If, on the other hand, you manage to find a job you truly enjoy,
then the 5 days are not seen as 'lost'. (thus you 'add' 5 days)
Philo |
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Lorikeet
Joined: 08 Oct 2005
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Location: San Francisco
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| Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 10:32 pm Post subject: Re: Find a job you like... |
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| Swim4life wrote: |
I like teaching my adult students English through some motivational quotes. I have just come across a quote, "'Find a job you like, and you add five days to every week."
If I understand it right, it means that if you love your job, five working days are not enough for you, you need to add five days more. Is that right? |
I don't know what it is "supposed" to mean, but to me it means that instead of being unhappy for the five days that you are working, and being in a hurry for a job you don't like to be overwith so you can appreciate the weekend, you can enjoy the five working days too. I am not sure that is what the author meant, however.
Edit: Ooop, Philo beat me by a minute. Well, you can see we were both on the same track. |
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