Working for a living

Salary is the price
you pay to entertain
a lifestyle while work
steals your life away.

Reviews

[Beren]

I mean, what is living? We all say we would live if we didn't work for 9-5 but when we don’t work we just don’t to anything either! At least my circle is like this…
But this poem has a great point of course!

[andrew mitchell]

Thank you Beren, some things are free

[Sami Khalil]

All true and well articulated.
It is so important to have that good balance between private life and work. We need to survive, but we need time for ourselves and family.
Everyone has different goals and circumstances.
We all suffered one way or another.
Health of body and mind are of paramount importance and your mobility. You lose them, kiss all others goodbye.
Just few obvious thoughts came by your inspiration.

[andrew mitchell]

Thank you for your input Sami and stopping by.

[Sami Khalil]

You are welcome muchly.

[Fabian G. Franklin]

I don't think I've ever had a "lifestyle". I've always thought having life was enough. Work is often less strenuous than our efforts at play. I've worked in sawmills and lumber yards, trucked across the country for thousands of miles and worked twelve hour days in a textile mill where, on summer days, the heat in my work area would be well over the hundred degree F. mark. I'd carry extra tee shirts to work so when I soaked one thoroughly through I'd change out of it, hang it on a pole and put on my dry one and rotate them back and forth, all the while, drinking Gatorade and water to keep from getting dehydrated. Good times. (laughing) We got to do what we got to do to survive. Now I'm old and my body has scars, my joints ache and my hands have gotten soft but I can still stand straight. Most of my old co-workers are dead.

[andrew mitchell]

Wow Fabian that is hard work, what a story. I worked in a plant nursery in hot glass house or out in the sun budding roses in school holidays, then I went into histopathology field, now in my 47th yr in May 25. Yes long hours and odd start times 3am, 4am starts and now 3pm to 11 or 4 to 12midnite and those sometimes include 12 shifts even now at 65. Work for me has certainly stolen my time from family and leisure. Got 2 yrs to go then maybe part time to help with the pension lol. Thanks for sharing Fabian.

[Fabian G. Franklin]

My academic pursuits have always fallen in second place to my survival by necessity but I love nothing more than to converse with teachers, professors and those more educated than myself on subjects that interest me. I've met some brilliant and wonderful men and women in my travels; people who could tell me exactly why they think and feel the things they do, always open and forthright. Those are my people.

[Pryde Foltz]

There is a trick to it ... almost figured it out.

[andrew mitchell]

Belated thank you Pryde

[Chris Shaw]

Isn’t that the truth, but when you eventually retire, how well you will reap the rewards. Happy Sunday Andrew. Hope you are well.

Chris

[andrew mitchell]

Belated thank you Chris

[Stella Armour]

Depends on the kind of lifestyle you want I think :)

[andrew mitchell]

Thank you Stella

[redd Brick Keshner]

Ah don’t I know it… my meal ticket has my feet bloated and blistered…. Labourers of the world unite! But that we don’t hear any longer…

[andrew mitchell]

Thank you Red

[redd Brick Keshner]

You’re so welcome Andrew. Have an excellent week! Back to the salt mines for me 😬👍🏻🕊

[andrew mitchell]

What! Salt mines?

[redd Brick Keshner]

Haha… none of those left these days… just a way of depicting droll drudgery of a meal ticket affair.

[redd Brick Keshner]

Probably the S’s, L’s and T’s in your poem… that must’ve clicked in my mind…

[andrew mitchell]

Hahaha yes know all about droll drudgery being in the same profession for 47 years in May this year. Over it!

[redd Brick Keshner]

Oh wow, must people retire, or shift, or go independent before or at 30 years! You must be pretty good at what you do!

[MCS]

Andrew, brilliant piece of writing filled with truth.

[andrew mitchell]

Thank you MCS

[Sami Khalil]

I agree wholeheartedly. True that. Sad what we all have to endure to make a living.
Excellent wisdom

[andrew mitchell]

Thank you King Sonnet 😀

[Sami Khalil]

You are welcome Emperor of Australia.
No wonder you call one of your provinces The Gold Coast.
Trump might want to annex it. Lol

[andrew mitchell]

Lucky we are 2036 kms away. Lol

[Sami Khalil]

Hehehe.........

[Yahya Oulad Aouid]

A great piece to begin the day with!

[andrew mitchell]

Thank you Sir.