Would You Work For Free?

RiderOnTheStorm · 10-09-2018 6:23pm #1

Dont rush to answer, but hear me out.

I have a theory that most people dont work at their jobs JUST because of the money. And its been said here many times, that good money does not always make for a good job. Most people like their job and the money just allows for you to live.

So, if ALL your bills & expenses were taken care of (mortgage, utilities, food, kids school, car insurance, the works!), would you stay at your current job and work for free? Or would you indulge your hobbies (all costs covered) or sit at home (free internet & sky) or in the pub (free drink & crisps)? Would you get bored?

Fann Linn · 10-09-2018 6:24pm

nee

If you want to pay my bills I'll go golfing. Cheers.

Subcomandante Marcos · 10-09-2018 6:25pm

RiderOnTheStorm wrote: »

Dont rush to answer, but hear me out.

I have a theory that most people dont work at their jobs JUST because of the money. And its been said here many times, that good money does not always make for a good job. Most people like their job and the money just allows for you to live.

So, if ALL your bills & expenses were taken care of, would you stay at your current job and work for free? Or would you indulge your hobbies (all costs covered) or sit at home (free internet & sky) or in the pub (free drink & crisps)? Would you get bored?

I like my job, but there's no way in hell I'd do it for free, I know my worth.

RiderOnTheStorm · 10-09-2018 6:31pm

If there is no job satisfaction, no competition between you & others, no attempt to help or improve something.... then why do it? If its ONLY money .... does that make us esentially prostitutes?

DChancer · 10-09-2018 6:33pm

RiderOnTheStorm wrote: »

If there is no job satisfaction, no competition between you & others, no attempt to help or improve something.... then why do it? If its ONLY money .... does that make us esentially prostitutes?

Yes
Our labour is a commodity and we sell it usually to the highest bidder

Noveight · 10-09-2018 6:34pm

nahi

Not a chance in hell.

OldMrBrennan83 · 10-09-2018 6:36pm

ma ho bu

RiderOnTheStorm wrote: »

Dont rush to answer, but hear me out.

I have a theory that most people dont work at their jobs JUST because of the money. And its been said here many times, that good money does not always make for a good job. Most people like their job and the money just allows for you to live.

So, if ALL your bills & expenses were taken care of (mortgage, utilities, food, kids school, car insurance, the works!), would you stay at your current job and work for free? Or would you indulge your hobbies (all costs covered) or sit at home (free internet & sky) or in the pub (free drink & crisps)? Would you get bored?

I don't know where you get that from. I wouldn't go out the door if it weren't for the money and there's not a real job that would change that fact. 99% of people I know would be the same too.

branie2 · 10-09-2018 6:38pm

I worked for free, and it was work experience.

Ken. · 10-09-2018 6:40pm

ma ho bu

Poll added. Ten different ways to say no.

endacl · 10-09-2018 6:44pm

One of my three jobs is music. I do that in my free time anyway. Paid gigs I only take if they’re interesting or if I like the people I’m playing with. So, yeah, I’d do that for nothing, but only if somebody else got paid. While I’d work for free, I don’t think the venue should get it for free.

My bread and butter job is teaching, and no, I wouldn’t continue that. I was asked that in a class once, during one of those times when the work is done and conversation happens. I was asked if I won the lottery, would I stay teaching? I told them I wouldn’t even finish the class. Much though I enjoy teaching, there’s other ways I’d rather spend my days. Nice pension though. Swings and roundabouts...

My other work is in private practise in an unrelated field. Would I work for free? Dunno. I’d like to say I’d keep the most interesting cases on.

I do think it’s important to keep occupied, and to feel useful. Is that an answer?

riffmongous · 10-09-2018 6:45pm

According to the dole threads here yes plenty would claim to

Mrs OBumble · 10-09-2018 6:47pm

Patww79 wrote: »

I don't know where you get that from. I wouldn't go out the door if it weren't for the money and there's not a real job that would change that fact. 99% of people I know would be the same too.

I'm told that the experience in similar developing and wartorn countries is that people do tend to keep going to work even if getting paid stops.

When i was younger i might have said yes. Now I've got more than enough side projects to keep me busy, so it would be a big NO.

quickbeam · 10-09-2018 6:47pm

If it was a job I liked* I'd work for free. Not 40 hours per week 48 weeks a year mind, but maybe for shorter hours just to keep my toe in the world, and have a routine and a reason to get up out of bed on occasion.

*Nice work, nice colleagues, a bit of a challenge without being stressful. I've never had such a job but if such a mythical job existed I'd go for it.

Heres Johnny · 10-09-2018 6:49pm

Are you talking about universal basic income here? If all my essentials were taken care of without working I'd probably go working about 50-60% as much as I do now to stay ahead of the average.
It's relative wealth that will make you feel well off, not absolute wealth.

10-09-2018 6:59pm

If i won the lotto, i can't imagine that i'd give up work entirely. part time contracting or something

Ken. · 10-09-2018 7:00pm

ma ho bu

Forgot to say, poll is multi choice. Feel free to vote for all options but once you vote thats it.

Your Face · 10-09-2018 7:01pm

Sorry but I can't wrestle professionally for free.

SimonTemplar · 10-09-2018 7:01pm

RiderOnTheStorm wrote: »

Dont rush to answer, but hear me out.

I have a theory that most people dont work at their jobs JUST because of the money. And its been said here many times, that good money does not always make for a good job. Most people like their job and the money just allows for you to live.

So, if ALL your bills & expenses were taken care of (mortgage, utilities, food, kids school, car insurance, the works!), would you stay at your current job and work for free? Or would you indulge your hobbies (all costs covered) or sit at home (free internet & sky) or in the pub (free drink & crisps)? Would you get bored?

Another way of asking this is, would you stay in your job if you won the lotto?

Absolutely not!

bee06 · 10-09-2018 7:09pm

I would but not full time. After spending 9 months on maternity leave (2 to go) I have come to the realisation that I am not cut out to be a stay at home mom. I need something for my brain to do besides singing the wheels on the bus a hundred times a day. I think my job would be a lot less stressful if I could quit whenever I wanted as well.

dougm1970 · 10-09-2018 7:20pm

my current job ?....no way.
but if it was a job i got some kind of satisfaction from.... kylie minogues morning foot rubber or something....then ya...probably would.

xi5yvm0owc1s2b · 10-09-2018 7:24pm

RiderOnTheStorm wrote: »

So, if ALL your bills & expenses were taken care of (mortgage, utilities, food, kids school, car insurance, the works!), would you stay at your current job and work for free? Or would you indulge your hobbies (all costs covered) or sit at home (free internet & sky) or in the pub (free drink & crisps)? Would you get bored?

It shouldn't be a choice between working, sitting at home watching TV, or sitting in the pub eating crisps. There are loads of other things you could be doing, like volunteering, taking courses, traveling, etc., that are mentally and socially stimulating but not "work."