Rule of happiness

OriginalGriff

Yeah I had difficulty swallowing the "Get on with the people you work with" bit as well...

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Lost User

Simple: don't work. You can make that work.

Lost User

Be proud every time you did your best. (whether or not the original goal was met) Spend time figuring out how make your best better.

Marc Clifton

Pranit Kothari wrote:

What is your rule of happiness?

I agree totally with the article. Happiness is choice, and we have all these rules about what makes us happy or not. Now, that does NOT mean one should be happy living with an abusive person or working in an abusive situation. Obviously "Not being abused" should be one of those rules of happiness. None-the-less, my happiness is also increased by being able to work from home, having a cat to pet (currently lounging on the desk between my keyboard and monitor), yummy food in the fridge, a friend to talk to (though she currently has laryngitis), being able to stretch my legs when I want without worrying about the boss thinking I'm not working, heck, taking a 15 minute power nap, etc. Marc

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Doctor Nick

Yeah. I almost turned that into "Get on the people you work with." Completely different and may in some cases lead to no longer working with those people... :)

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Pete OHanlon

Pranit Kothari wrote:

What is your rule of happiness?

A steady supply of minions, working hard to make me rich, without complaint, with a song on their lips and a steady stream of coffee brought to my desk.

*pre-emptive celebratory nipple tassle jiggle* - Sean Ewington

"Mind bleach! Send me mind bleach!" - Nagy Vilmos

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Henry Minute

I only have one rule. 1. Never make a list. oops. :-O

Henry Minute Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is. Cogito ergo thumb - Sucking my thumb helps me to think.

BobJanova

The article is rather simplistic ... happiness isn't something you can choose to feel at any time, particularly if you actually have depression but even for normal people. It is well meaning and gets near a good point (you can influence your thinking and how events make you feel to some degree), though. I moved to a company where the people are fun to work and socialise with. And I, too, keep my work hours to what they're supposed to be and my home life separate.

Gary Wheeler

1. Hide the bodies in amusing places. 2. ...

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AspDotNetDev

Happiness is such a simple emotion. There is an entire spectrum of enjoyment and pleasure one can miss out on if one focuses on being happy all the time. I, for example, find satisfaction upon plowing through an 800 page technical book. I wasn't necessarily singing about the joy of reading it the entire time, but I will be satisfied upon completing it. Others find different things to be best in life. For some, it may be to crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women.

Thou mewling ill-breeding pignut!

Pete OHanlon

Of course the cat is between keyboard and monitor. That's near the mouse after all.

*pre-emptive celebratory nipple tassle jiggle* - Sean Ewington

"Mind bleach! Send me mind bleach!" - Nagy Vilmos

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hairy_hats

Yep.

wizardzz

Then how do you manage to get along, work short days, and not get bothered at home? Seems an anomaly in this industry.

"I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours. " — Hunter S. Thompson

Mark_Wallace

Way too complicated. All you have to do is remember that being happy is a choice, and make a choice.

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Slacker007

Pete O'Hanlon wrote:

with a song on their lips

and what song would that be? :laugh:

"the meat from that butcher is just the dogs danglies, absolutely amazing cuts of beef." - DaveAuld (2011)
"No, that is just the earthly manifestation of the Great God Retardon." - Nagy Vilmos (2011) "It is the celestial scrotum of good luck!" - Nagy Vilmos (2011) "But you probably have the smoothest scrotum of any grown man" - Pete O'Hanlon (2012)

hairy_hats

Because I avoid too much contact with the people I don't get on with, my office is closed at night, and my software has no bugs in it*. * - Two of the above are true, you guess which ones.