employment

A salary is, to a man's employer, what his wife's vagina is to his wife: a tool used to (1) reward; and (2) control him.

It is inevitable that machines will one day become the ultimate enemies of mankind. We are not evolving or progressing with our technology, only regressing. Technology is our friend today, but will be our enemy in the future.

You must fall in love with your job, over and over again, to own it.

Able hands' are more favorable to business than 'adorable hearts'.

It is only if the primary or only reason you do what you do is to make money that you will envy every random person who made or makes a lot of money (or money that exceeds what you made or make).

The purpose of employment is not to make money

The reason that man is seldom satisfied with his salary is that when it increases, he increases his expenses.

I had never considered that you might miss a job like you missed a limb -- a constant, reflexive thing. I hadn't thought as well as the obvious fears about money, and your future, losing your job would make you feel inadequate, and a bit useless. That it would be harder to get up in the morning than you were rudely shocked in to consciousness by the alarm. That you might missed the people you worked with, no matter how little you had in common with them.

Workdays are, I imagine, rather like learning to ice-skate Torvill and Dean__ The Bolero. They start and end easily enough; it__ the bit in the middle that causes the pain in the arse.

Losing your job gives you time

A 'good job' can be both practically attractive while still not good enough to devote your entire life to.

Work is tough for everyone but for Kyle Shannon, it's just murder.

The employed are punished by having to do what they do not love. The self-employed are punished by the opposite.

...treasure what it means to do a day's work. It's our one and only chance to do something productive today, and it's certainly not available to someone merely because he is the high bidder. A day's work is your chance to do art, to create a gift, to do something that matters. As your work gets better and your art becomes more important, competition for your gifts will increase and you'll discover that you can be choosier about whom you give them to.

Apparently I lack some particular perversion which today's employer is seeking.

Always be smarter than the people who hire you.

Resources are hired to give results, not reasons.

In a patriarchal society, one of the most important functions of the institution of the family is to make feel like a somebody whenever he is in his own yard a man who is a nobody whenever he is in his employer__ yard.