that is sad
but i can see why. it's not about the material stuff, it's just that- i don't really know how to express it, i think you're just different people if you have very different aims and goals in life. this doesn't have to be a problem if you are happy to be/have a stay-at-home partner, but it doesn't appeal to me!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 11:01, 2 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

I would love to be a stay-at-home partner.
There is so much knowledge I am desperate to acquire about innumerable arcane subjects, I could fill several lifetimes in fascinated research. That doesn't even touch upon the playing of music in its various forms, or drawing, or writing...

Earning a fucking living is the most intolerable intrusion into my life imaginable. I loathe it.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 11:06, Reply)

gosh you're literally like the polar opposite to me
i'm a total workaholic, i'm a complete control-freak about my files and my job, and i might whinge about the long hours, but actually it satisfies my academic and professional ambitions really well!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 11:08, Reply)

I have no ambitions, and to some degree resent having to work for a living
That said, I do like that I'm doing some Good in my job.
Still, I'd rather be traveling the world.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 11:10, Reply)

If someone could bankroll my thirst for learning
I would be the happiest man alive. Work is a tawdry and repulsive irritation to me. It's simply not right for gentleman to have to concern himself with such mundane things as money.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 11:11, Reply)

I echo this sentiment.
It is the same for a lady. I would do lots of boss things if work didn't take up my time.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 11:23, Reply)

i love learning too
hence the masters which i am doing alongside my job, although most of the class don't work.... 2 years to do a masters in creative writing, now there's a fast-track to the dole office..... and am wondering what to study next. but i couldn't not work, i wouldn't know what to do with myself. i blame my dad, he made me work for him in the bank from being about 15.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 11:24, Reply)

Me too, but the fiancé is having none of it.
I'd be a boss kept woman and all.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 11:12, Reply)

I said a while back that if I won the lottery, I'd still have a part time job (well, at first)
For the simple reason that being out of work is the single most boring thing that has ever happened to me.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 11:14, Reply)

Being out of work WITHOUT money is boring

( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 11:15, Reply)

I had cash at the time, but even then, it was depressing.

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 11:18, Reply)

Of course that's true
but there is no reason at all why people with different aims and goals can't be blissfully happy, as long as they are honest about it. Much worse to be stuck with someone that has the same personality as you. That would be unbearable for any sane human.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 11:31, Reply)