Christopher Hitchens Explains Why You Should Quit Your Job

From the floor of the 2007 National Book Awards, journalist Christopher Hitchens talks about getting fired from his worst job.

By Jason Boog
http://www.thepublishingspot.com/

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• Christopher
• Hitchens
• journalism

[NwZ2]

Homosexuality has been around since the dawn of time. Your arguments are a thin veil for your ignorance and hatred. Non-reproduction doesn't make infertile heterosexuals any more or less moral than homosexuals are. Your'e a fool and a bigot. You make me, as an American, deeply ashamed.

[richiebabe24]

Office jobs are the most soul-destroying occupations ever conceived.

[Fuliginosus]

I find the comments below more interesting than the video.

[rycka1983]

I am afraid to quit.

[WalterLiddy]

I'm not getting how this says I should quit my job.

[EdgePitSwing]

"MusicStudyMan" is a jackass for posting so much crap on a youtube video... Keep it on your blogspot page bro.

[MusicStudyMan]

@ExEverest10 The hardest lesson in life is to realise that most of the views you have of yourself and the world around you were constructed during a time in your life when you were not old enough to understand them, challenge them. It is harder to find the courage to find out who you truly are, what you are capable of and pursue that without following the direction of the massess, whose opinions of you were most likely formed in error because of the same inability to learn that very lesson.

[MusicStudyMan]

@ExEverest10 There is a huge gulf between what science and psychology knows about human motivation and what business does about human motivation. You seem to have fully subscribed to the idea that humans are designed to do jobs in the usual 9-5 structure as seen in the developing world. This just isn't true - there is much more to it than that and the increasing prevelance of mental health issues in the work place is part-testament to to this. Your cause-effect logic is very simplistic.

[MusicStudyMan]

@ExEverest10 Yes, they're capabale of the change, but rarely do. We see the world as WE are, not always how it is. By the time we start working life, we have developed a world view through which we filter everything else through it and regularly fail to see anything else. Just like when somebody goes to work for say... TNT Parcel Company...suddenly they noticing TNT lorries everywhere. Same part of the brain does this for you as does it also limit our view of our potential and our reality.

[MusicStudyMan]

@ExEverest10 1. Not quite. I am a believer in Frederick Herzburg's (and others like him) findings - mostly through my own meandering experience and observations of others. Most people do view their job as a way to meet their needs, but 'meeting our needs' is a logical consequence of being alive - it doesn't bring forth our greatness, our full inner potential and as a result most people's 'fair days work for a fair days pay' is about 50% what they can actually give.

[ExEverest10]

@MusicStudyMan Furthermore, do you agree that many view *any* job as a job, and always under-preform? So, as opposed to perpetually searching for a job that doesn't exist, or one that you're unlikely to stumble upon, don't you think that the advice that should be put forth is one of 'learn how to enjoy and be good at your present job', rather than 'quit your job'?

[ExEverest10]

@MusicStudyMan Before writing 'NO' with an exclamation mark [...And making fallacious statements; the grass can be greener. But it's green neither automatically, nor never], answer me this: how do you reconcile your view with the notion that human beings are capable of significant physchological change, and can change their suitability for their job [in most jobs, at least]?