<p>Fun = Freedom ÷ Work</p>
<p>Discuss.</p>
<p><em>ATTN; math nerds: In honor of your discipline, come up with ways to make this equation more complicated, less intuitive, and, if you dare, more useless.</em></p>
<p>Your equation implies that work is always not enjoyable (in both the academic and professional context), which I find to be untrue for many people.</p>
<p>What if one does 0 work but has an infinite amount of fun!?!</p>
<p>Freedom = 1000000000000000000000000 / 0
Freedom = uh oh</p>
<p>For me, it’s more like:</p>
<p>Happiness = Life.</p>
<p>=)</p>
<p>ken285–like most people, those who say they find work enjoyable are liars.</p>
<p>Nevertheless, ken still has a point. You have to do SOME work, or you end up trying to divide by zero, which is a sin.</p>
<p>That’s quite a cynical view that you have; perhaps you’re in the wrong major/profession then. If your assumption that everyone hates all their studies/jobs, then everyone should be depressed because we will spend over 1/3 of our lives working. And that is clearly not the case. </p>
<p>I’ve met a few people who came out of retirement (with a very nice government pension, so money was not an issue) to work again, because they felt life was too boring without some work to do. Myself, I thoroughly enjoyed many of my college courses, and actually took a few extra courses during my last year of undergrad just because I was interested in the subject matter. In the professional world, I’ve enjoyed my internships so much, that I continued working there throughout the academic year. </p>
<p>You just have to find something you love.</p>
<p>and I hope you’re not misinterpreting my statements… work isn’t enjoyable ALL the time for anybody, but it is definitely enjoyable at least part of the time if you make the right decisions.</p>
<p>Yeah, my mother loves every minute of her job. She would def. describe it as fun.</p>
<p>Life is not boring without work to do. Unfulfilling, yes. Boring, no. I am familiar with the need to work towards something so that my life is not a hollow waste of time. If I weren’t familiar with this, I would probably be an outlaw biker or a psych major or something. But one thing is for certain–‘FUN’ is not to be used in the same sentence as ‘WORK’. If it wasn’t work, they wouldn’t call it work. They’d call it super-wonderful-crazy-fun-time.</p>
<p>I’m familiar with those old people as well. And the fact of the matter is, for one, they have no hobbies. For two, their significant other is always around annoying them. For three, you’re talking about people with rewarding careers, not normal people.</p>
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<p>Go find a book called “Fish!” and tell me if you’ll still agree with this comment. The book is 107 pages long; shouldn’t take more than about 40 minutes to read…</p>
<p>Life can’t be all fun…people must suffer every once in a while.</p>
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<p>Why are we excluding people with rewarding careers? Those are exactly the people that disprove your equation. I will give you that there are plenty of people who do not enjoy work, but there are also plenty that do. You just have to make the right choices.</p>
<p>EVERY job needs to be done by somebody. Few of these jobs can even be considered ‘careers’, let alone ‘rewarding’.</p>
<p>Right. What I’ve been saying is that your equation doesn’t hold true for everybody. Not all jobs, such as cashiers, janitors, etc. are rewarding, but quite a few are. Your original post implied that nobody ever likes their work.</p>
<p>^Ken is correct. There are plenty jobs that are not rewarding, but it’s the ones that are that disprove your equation.</p>
<p>Aren’t exceptions what PROVE the rule or something? Especially when there’s SO FEW of them?</p>
<p>Not at all. How did you come up with that logic?</p>
<p>I wouldn’t say there are very few of them. Of the people I graduated with, all of them are enthusiastic and enjoy their jobs. Of course, this may not be the norm, especially if you compare it to those with only a high school education, but it’s not like it’s rare. </p>
<p>If you qualify your original equation by excluding those who enjoy their work, I’ll agree with it. But as it stands right now, it does not apply to everybody, or even close to it.</p>
<p>I was under the impression that exceptions proved that the equation does not work in every instance, proving that it is not a true equation. </p>
<p>For example, the pythagorian (sp?) theorm works in every instance. a + b = c, however, works in some instances, but not all, which is the reason that it itself is not a theorm.</p>
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<p>It’s just a figure of speech. It has nothing to do with math.</p>
<p>what people did you graduate with? let me guess–a group of dedicated and exceptional students.</p>
<p>I’d say they’re enthusiastic about the field. Many didn’t love the school work, but they enjoy the work they are now doing professionally. </p>
<p>I don’t have a problem with your definition of fun, if it’s a general rule of thumb, but as an equation, it just doesn’t stand up because it implies it holds true for all cases.</p>
<p>^^What I was trying to say.</p>