Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!gcd.org!vda-gw!news.moat.net!news.glorb.com!postnews.google.com!g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: "John W." Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Questionnaire- worst job? Date: 22 Apr 2005 06:05:38 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 52 Message-ID: <1114175138.926447.11570@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> References: <425AE6C3.9ABF0955@wta.att.ne.jp> <1113280812.454210.15000@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1113315472.418193.19890@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> <1113321134.839571.290240@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com> <1113324799.554786.274810@l41g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.32.36.230 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: posting.google.com 1114175144 9049 127.0.0.1 (22 Apr 2005 13:05:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 13:05:44 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: G2/0.2 Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=67.32.36.230; posting-account=IGBrEwwAAABPCeBilOMHVky8YEHrk0Ub Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:26766 Ed wrote: > "John W." wrote in message > news:1113324799.554786.274810@l41g2000cwc.googlegroups.com... > > declan_mur...@hotmail.com wrote: > > > John W. wrote: > > > > declan_murphy@hotmail.com wrote: > > > > > Prophet of the Way wrote: > > > > > > Father spends the evening drinking or the weekend playing golf. > > > > > > He says it's a job. > > > > > > > > > > I can think of 3 people who spend the evenings drinking AND the > > > > > weekends playing golf. In each case they are definitely working. > > > > > Whether they are always enjoying their work isn't as apparent. > > > > > > > > I guess a lot would depend on who is paying, but on a fundamental > > > level > > > > it sounds very nice, particularly the weekends playing golf part. > > > > > > I believe the bills are all business expenses, and even if I had to > > > deliberately lose every round ever played, it still sounds like very > > > nice work. I'm in the wrong business. > > > > While I don't know exactly what you do on a day-to-day basis, I'm quite > > envious of the traveling you get to do. The only time I travel in my > > job is when I decide to walk the steps to the bathroom upstairs. > > I'm not envious at all. Travelling in Japan seriously sucks. It's not like > there are regional differences so you can travel from one region to the > other and come upon differences. All you can find are different barn-like > structures, different specialty foods, different biting insects, and the > same crappy over-priced lodgings where you are lucky if you can squeeze into > the hotel room without rupturing something important. > I guess it's all a matter of perspective. John W.