I May Need To Reconsider My Position
By WorDazza
@WorDazza (15833)
Manchester, England
December 1, 2015 6:31am CST
Every now and again I appear on this site and read and comment and generally interact with others.
Occasionally I will decipher some of the electrical signals rushing around my brain and attempt to put them into some form of coherent, and hopefully entertaining, discussion.
These activities give me pleasure. They scratch itches that my day job can't reach. They provide a level of stimulation that communications protocol specifications just can't get anywhere near. That's not to say communications protocol specifications aren't interesting! Some of them are quite a sexy read! Actually I'm lying. They're not! They're tedious to the point of wishing you were having your toenails removed by having rusty kebab skewers hammered underneath them rather than having to understand and implement one!!
Anyhow, I'm beginning to wonder if I should be doing this! Why? Well I'm starting to see an increase in discussions which describe my, and everyone else's, myLot activities as work. My mother often used to say about me, when I was rushing hither and thither from one activity/pastime to another, "If he was told it was work, he wouldn't do it". I'm self-aware enough to realise she was absolutely spot-on! By that I mean she was absolutely correct, not that she was a small tube of a leading brand of domesticated animal flea treatment!! That was my Dad!
Now someone has gone and told me this is work!
Somebody please tell me it isn't!
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27 responses
@owlwings (43915)
• Cambridge, England
1 Dec 15
Nah! It's not work. Some people in countries where the dollar goes a lot further than it does here may try to think of it like that but they are always warned by more seasoned members that they are wrong. It's pure fun and pass-time and that's all it should ever be thought of as, even though it can be gainful.
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@WorDazza (15833)
• Manchester, England
1 Dec 15
@owlwings That's what I like so much about this place. I don't need to agonise over getting posts right. In comments and responses I can just be my usual spontaneous, witty (cough), charming (cough, cough), intelligent (cough, splutter, choke) self and the bank still ticks along nicely.
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@MALUSE (69416)
• Germany
1 Dec 15
I haven't seen it here but I know this well from bubblews in its glory days. Whole families in Asia gave up their day time jobs to 'work' for bubblews busily copying content from the net and posting it on the site together with lascivious beauties as avatars.
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@WorDazza (15833)
• Manchester, England
2 Dec 15
@enlightenedpsych2 I think I would have to spend 72 hours a day, 21 days a week, 156 weeks of the year here to earn anything meaningful!!
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@LovingMyBabies (85127)
• Valdosta, Georgia
1 Dec 15
I think some people make it work by stressing their earnings or trying to figure out how to do better here. For me though this is not work at all, it's a fun place to be!
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@troyburns (1405)
• New Zealand
2 Dec 15
Work has nothing to do with earning money, as one or two housewives will tell you. Or househusbands. Or unsuccessful screenwriters. It's just what you regularly do when you'd rather be doing something else.
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@paigea (35635)
• Canada
1 Dec 15
This is not work. I am not working for the pennies I get here. I am here avoiding work. I should be getting ready for today's mystery shops. I should be chasing down one payment I know is missing. I should be finding more mystery shops to do since I am not getting calls to substitute teach. But I am here - relaxing.
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@katsmeow1213 (28717)
• United States
1 Dec 15
It's only work if it's not enjoyable and it's something you MUST do. You don't have to Mylot, and it doesn't pay the bills.. I call it a hobby with benefits.
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@allknowing (130067)
• India
1 Dec 15
There are certain writing sites that could be considered work such as iwriter but certainly not myLot. Work should generate good earnings. We al know myLot is not a place to generate earnings that one can live on.
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@allknowing (130067)
• India
1 Dec 15
@WorDazza I only hope not. There is a huge difference though between myLot and BB. There the owners paid no attention to reporting. I used to report regularly but those culprits continued to be there but here Admin is very active and alert. I report here and action is taken immediately.
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@WorDazza (15833)
• Manchester, England
1 Dec 15
@allknowing They do seem to be running a much tighter ship here.
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@Inlemay (17714)
• South Africa
1 Dec 15
Oh no - this is NOT work at all - who gets to go to work and have the likes of @LadyDuck in Switzerland, Inlemay in Africa, @MALUSE in Germany @brendamarie in the US of A sit and chat to you all day long - - - - - PEOPLE wish that could be called work!!!
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@garymarsh6 (23393)
• United Kingdom
1 Dec 15
NO not work it is pleasure not hell!
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104632)
• United States
1 Dec 15
That pretty much sums up what I want to say!
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@WorDazza (15833)
• Manchester, England
2 Dec 15
@garymarsh6 Work as hell! I didn't realise you worked at the same place I do!
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@ElizabethWallace (12074)
• United States
1 Dec 15
It depends upon the person doing it. If the money is needed and the only reason for being her, then for that person it is work. If it is fun and a distraction, and the money is only a perk, then it is a hobby.
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@Poppylicious (11133)
•
1 Dec 15
Nah, calm down lad. This isn't work. People have been pulling your leg and telling you porkies.
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@GreatMartin (23677)
• Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
6 Dec 15
To me writing is never work and I have had 8 books published. I have been blogging/posting/commenting/discussing--whatever you want to call it since 1999 and it never feels like work.
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@WorDazza (15833)
• Manchester, England
4 Dec 15
@Inlemay I will, I won't, it isn't and Hugo the dog thanks you for your blessings. Although he would like me to point out he isn't a mere child! He's 2 and 1/2 years old!!
I've also caved in to your demands. Can't vouch for the quality though!!
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@WorDazza (15833)
• Manchester, England
4 Dec 15
Stop placing demands on me. You're making it seem like work. 
Very busy at work. My new doggy is placing heavy demands on me at home and I've currently got the mother of all head colds so I've not been at my creative best.
I'll see what I can do today!!
Very busy at work. My new doggy is placing heavy demands on me at home and I've currently got the mother of all head colds so I've not been at my creative best.
I'll see what I can do today!!1 person likes this
@Dragonairy1 (1722)
• Newcastle Upon Tyne, England
1 Dec 15
This is fun, not work 
, or I'd have been sacked 
, or I'd have been sacked 1 person likes this
@Namelesss (3368)
• United States
1 Dec 15
There there now, it's not work if you enjoy it. Don't listen to those dolts, they have no idea what they are talking about. 
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@anh101 (1379)
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2 Dec 15
I never think Mylot is a work, i think it's like a social network. And of course the real thing is you are here, you are sharing your life story, and that's cool. Cuz i think we should know more about things around us. But this way, i will have a great environment to practice English with you guys, even typing in English. hehe. I did think about working online but not for Mylot, Mylot is a place where we enjoy sharing the life story. And sometimes, we find out meanings from those what people share. It will become a habit, like your FB social network habit. You've come back from work, and when you hold your fone up, you may open FB, but now you will open Mylot. The feeling is almost like it with me.
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