+29 The saying, 'if you love what you do for work, you'll never need a day off', doesn't account for jobs that require great physical exertion. amirite?

by Anonymous 1 week ago

In the uk, we say ‘do what you love, and you'll never work a day in your life' which makes more sense

by hansencaterina 1 week ago

That's what we say in the US, too. I have no idea what OP is talking about.

by Sufficient-Court9389 1 week ago

OP just straight up made their own quote.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

"If you work every day of your life, you'll love when there's no tomorrow."

by Ok_Example1080 1 week ago

That's going on my hard hat

by Anonymous 1 week ago

"If everyday is dying and suffering, nuclear holocaust doesn't sound so bad" - old Russian saying.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

If you love what you do…shame on…. Can't get fooled again!

by Anonymous 1 week ago

If you love what you do with one stone, you'll never kill two birds again.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

If you love your life, you'll never do a day of work.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

If you love that you work, you'll never know the friends we made along the way

by OddTraining 1 week ago

You can lead a horse to water but you can't teach it to fish.

by Flat-Owl 1 week ago

A stitch in time saves you an extra nine days off

by Anonymous 1 week ago

There's an old saying in Tennessee- I know it's in Texas probably in Tennessee that says Fool me once, shame on... shame on you. And fool me, you can't get fooled again.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

If you makeup quotes you'll never a day in your work

by Anonymous 1 week ago

DAE hate when people say "if you love what you do, you won't mind when bears invade your job and tickle you with bananas then implant their eggs unto your eyeballs?"

by Anonymous 1 week ago

"If you love what your work does then do the work better than not doing the work better"

by Anonymous 1 week ago

In this moment, OP is euphoric

by Born_Plantain_3398 1 week ago

Probably what their boss goes around the work site saying.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

The common street phrase, "Aardvark sex is the most tantalizing sex you will ever experience and will result in a mind-shattering orgasmic ascendancy to enlightenment" is completely misleading BS. Don't be fooled like I was.

by Gradylenore 1 week ago

Was it Arthur Read?

by Anonymous 1 week ago

...or you might have never heard it. I mean, someone has to make it up anyways

by Annual-Field 1 week ago

There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again.

by Uweimann 1 week ago

Exactly!

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I'm sure there are people saying lots of different things, but I've never personally heard OP's version or yours.

by Sufficient-Court9389 1 week ago

They probably finally got a day off

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Sounds like the slogan of a great company

by Suspicious-Spite 1 week ago

They say that everywhere. The OP just doesn't know the actual saying.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Yeah, OP has 3 brain cells and didn't quote it correctly. He's also extremely lazy as it would have taken 2 seconds to Google.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

still isn't true, I love my job and I love my time off even more!

by Anonymous 1 week ago

You took the bait 🎣 OpenAI thanks you for your contribution

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Plus it's absolutely false. Sometimes you just can't arsed and wanna chill

by Anonymous 1 week ago

That's not the saying, though. The saying is "if you love what you do, you'll never work a day in your life." I think it's a stupid saying, but still.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

The real saying should be "if you do what you love for work, you'll learn to hate it"

by Hot_Expression 1 week ago

"Monetize your hobbies so you can hate every waking hour of your life."

by Low-Particular2745 1 week ago

Been doing the same thing I enjoy for 32 years (since I was 11) and enjoy it now more than ever.

by TinyAardvark9453 1 week ago

Yup, way to many people are so negative on this site.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

What do you do?

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I'm a software engineer and architect

by TinyAardvark9453 1 week ago

Awesome! I hope I can end up not hating/getting bored of my passion as well! I'm currently at a community college studying physical education

by Anonymous 1 week ago

You were not a software engineer or architect at 11.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Im sure he meant he was introduced to coding at that age.

by Ikehowe 1 week ago

I was making apps using VB 1.0 in Windows 3.1 Shortly after writing games in C for DOS

by TinyAardvark9453 1 week ago

When did you start designing buildings?

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Software Engineer and [Software] Architect

by TinyAardvark9453 1 week ago

This is the truth. Used to enjoy shooting photos, went to school for it, moved and got a job in the photo industry, and 10 years later I no longer really enjoy shooting photos

by Harveykeeley 1 week ago

"everything sucks eventually."

by Educational_End 1 week ago

Yeah, except for the whole part where you didn't get the saying correct. "If you love what you do, you'll never work a day in your life"

by Anonymous 1 week ago

This kind of thinking causes people to turn their hobbies into careers which robs many of them of the joy they once had while partaking in said hobby

by Anonymous 1 week ago

it' because often in hobby stage you don't really understand what you are doing or what it entails to do it professionally. it would be like me playing basketball as a hobby but want to go pro. even if i was physically capable of playing pro, it would mean stuff like training, practicing for hours everyday for a long time. it's not just go dick around in with other casuals and expect to be successful

by Anonymous 1 week ago

There are people who are experts at what they do and never go beyond doing whatever as a hobby

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Yeah Idk why this person thinks a hobby is just unskilled activities.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I'll raise my hand on this one. I used to make my own comics. It was so much fun. So naturally I went to school for graphic design and ultimately took a job doing panels comics. It was the most soul crushing work I have ever done because I lost all autonomy over what I was drawing, how I was drawing it and when i would draw it.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I used to make my own comics. Now you make your own quotes. (I jest…)

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Lol 😂 that's fair. Though I haven't heard the other one before today. The one I quoted was something my old boss used to say

by Anonymous 1 week ago

That's not the saying.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

That's also not the saying

by Lost_Masterpiece_105 1 week ago

I dont get it either way. If i had to do any of my hobbies as a job, i would come to hate doing those hobbies.

by Public_Exchange 1 week ago

Imagine if you love video games but then you have to play games you don't like to make money.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

You made that quote up though

by blocknash 1 week ago

Made it up to get past the filter if anything xD

by Mysterious-Screen-53 1 week ago

That's a stupid saying and I'm glad I had never heard it before. Now hopefully I'll never hear it again.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

That's not the saying

by FinancialYear 1 week ago

How many of y'all love what you do?

by Independent_Goal 1 week ago

Thats because the guy who said it was a singer lol, not exactly the most high intensity physical job

by IndividualFault1890 1 week ago

It doesn't account for anything, it's just an empty platitude promising you'll somehow be cool with that lifestyle and if you're not it's just because you didn't choose or earn the right job

by These_Fennel_1323 1 week ago

Or mental exertion (software engineering).

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Good point

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I love my job, but I still need breaks from it.

by Reasonable_Court_170 1 week ago

You butchered the saying. That's why it doesn't make sense! It's "…you'll never work a day in your life". It has nothing to do with taking days off. Everyone needs days off regardless of whether you like your work.

by Berylmonahan 1 week ago

It doesn't account for ANY JOBS.

by Novel-Animator8019 1 week ago

Seeing that's not how the quote goes I guess you are kinda right

by Anonymous 1 week ago

No one says that though

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I love what I do for work and it's not physical labor and I want and need all the days off I can get.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Or compassion fatigue... working in the addictions field requires you to love it. Still need days away.

by Weissnatchadd 1 week ago

The real life is if you love what you do for work, your customers will find ways to make you hate it with a passion

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Never need a day off is not how humans work. People cannot do the same thing over and over uninterrupted for very long before there start being all sorts of negative side effects. This saying is braindead.

by Dinahermiston 1 week ago

See I love working on jet engines but there are some times when we don't get days off. It gets tough. Lots of heavy lifting and physical labor. But the chemicals we work with make me want to take time off here and there. Just some nasty stuff.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

This doeant account for any job. Every job will have days where you'd don't want to be there, or don't want to push to above and beyond. Everything is fun when done to enjoy, but becomes a job when it goes beyond that limit. That limit is different for everyone, but it exists.

by Ok-Comparison8468 1 week ago

I love teaching. I absolutely need days off or I'll burn out.

by Jazzlike-Tax5822 1 week ago

My job is owning a resort and while every day is another challenge with Homeless, vandalism, trespassers, kicking people out, noise complaints, and even sunken boats, car crashes, and domestic violence. Broken refrigerators, light bulbs, ovens and microwaves. Ceiling fans, heaters and air conditioners. The list never ends but I love what I do. And that's because what I do is make people happy. I facilitate families and their vacations. I create memories that will last a lifetime. People come to me for their one week a year where all time is theirs and I cater to their every need. From this I derive pleasure and therefore I go home every day happy as long as I know I made my customers happy. I don't work. I serve and through that service I derive pleasure. It's not easy all the time but seeing the smile on another's face gives me power and purpose

by Schoenmoises 1 week ago

Well on the days you don't love it, you probably don't want to work. Checks out.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Doesn't apply for sports people.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

So true

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Or people who get sick

by ObviousSuggestion 1 week ago

Or mental exertion. Or emotional exertion. The fact is people need rest. And just sleeping everyday isn't enough.

by BarberImpossible6979 1 week ago

Or mental exertion. Or exertion. Lol

by Anonymous 1 week ago

That's not the saying…

by Utillman 1 week ago

I have never heard that phrase. I HAVE, however, heard that "you love what you do, you'll never work a day in your life."

by Sklein 1 week ago

I think OP coined that phrase lol. The real phrase is "If you love what you do, you'll never work a day in your life". Completely different meaning (though still arguably exploitative).

by Anonymous 1 week ago

That's fine. Yes, I know the original phrase you don't have to remind me. That is the phrase to which I was referring.

by Bschulist 1 week ago

The problem comes when you get compensated for doing what you love. If you're intrinsically motivated to do something, it's a hobby and you enjoy it. When you're extrinsically motivated, it becomes a job and you enjoy it less. You do get the benefit of being really good at your job because you loved getting good at it though.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Which isn't even true. No matter what u do there's parts of it you don't like, so u gotta WORK to put up with it everyday, until u need a vacation.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

As someone who (used to) have a job that required constant and often intense physical exertion, hell yes it does. I loved everything about it, especially going to bed completely exhausted and being satisfied with myself and my day. Weekends were enough to replenish, and I'd go to the gym most extra days off.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

No one has ever said this.

by Anonymous 1 week ago