I got the motherfucking job.
June 2013
4 posts
May 2013
18 posts
“Breathe. You’re going to be okay. Breathe and remember that you’ve been in this place before. You’ve been this uncomfortable and anxious and scared, and you’ve survived. Breathe and know that you can survive this too. These feelings can’t break you. They’re painful and debilitating, but you can sit with them and eventually, they will pass. Maybe not immediately, but sometime soon, they are going to fade and when they do, you’ll look back at this moment and laugh for having doubted your resilience. I know it feels unbearable right now, but keep breathing, again and again. This will pass. I promise it will pass.”
—Daniell Koepke (via featherandarrow)
April 2013
15 posts
“I have seen people, as perhaps everyone has, in a state of crisis when their emotions take over and become so whole and pure that they are scary to witness. Most of us express emotions on a daily basis but, when disaster strikes in catastrophic form, they take on a whole new dimension. Then they carry the enormity of the force that nature exerts in a tidal wave, a raging forest fire, a hurricane - a force over which we have no control and little understanding. Pure emotion is perhaps the most powerful element within us all.”
—Weirdly, some book about horse whispering.
The Pit
Mouse Rat
Mouse Rat - The Pit
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But the 8-hour workday is too profitable for big business, not because of the amount of work people get done in eight hours (the average office worker gets less than three hours of actual work done in 8 hours) but because it makes for such a purchase-happy public. Keeping free time scarce means people pay a lot more for convenience, gratification, and any other relief they can buy. It keeps them watching television, and its commercials. It keeps them unambitious outside of work.
We’ve been led into a culture that has been engineered to leave us tired, hungry for indulgence, willing to pay a lot for convenience and entertainment, and most importantly, vaguely dissatisfied with our lives so that we continue wanting things we don’t have. We buy so much because it always seems like something is still missing.
” —Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed
“Decisions I regret:
- Doing things to make other people happy at the expense of my own happiness.
- Doing things to make me happy at the expense of other people’s happiness.” — Kevin Blechdom (interview in Electronic Beats Spring 2013)
- Doing things to make other people happy at the expense of my own happiness.
- Doing things to make me happy at the expense of other people’s happiness.” — Kevin Blechdom (interview in Electronic Beats Spring 2013)
“‘It is finished.’ May those words land on your bones for the nights when fear tells you the cross was a beginning & you must finish grace.”
—Jon Acuff
March 2013
10 posts
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The only people that can afford to take an unpaid job are those that are already well-off enough to survive without pay. That means that there are careers where the only way to effectively break in to the industry is to be well-off in the first place.
This is a major problem in many industries, including film, advertising, fashion, music, and others. If your parents can pay for an apartment in Manhattan, congratulations, you can get your foot in the door. If not, tough luck, go find another job more suited to your lower-class life.
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“You’re not really an adult at all. You’re just a tall child holding a beer, having a conversation you don’t understand.”
—Dylan Moran
February 2013
9 posts
“I said never apologize for how you feel. No one can control how they feel. The sun doesn’t apologize for being the sun. The rain doesn’t say sorry for falling. Feelings just are.”
—Iain S. Thomas, Intentional Dissonance. (via maddywirtz)
