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Dear TekMol,

We regret to inform you that starting tomorrow, our organization, our parent company, our subsidiary company, and our affiliate partners will no longer be able to provide you services.

Unfortunately, all of our employees read your post and they agree with you and they have all quit to follow their bliss and have left en mass for Chiang Mai until they can "figure out what that means."

Candidly, we expect a large increase in the number of people working as life coaches.

As a result, we will no longer be able to provide the following services:

- Retail employees to help you - Any sort of clerical work - Coal mining and other energy gathering work that requires outdoor and or physical work - Water plants and filtration systems - Less glamours medical care - All the law jobs you don't know about but which keep our world running as well as it does - And any and all sundry job that aren't cool enough to be in an TV commercial

By this letter, we formally requests you stop spouting your bullshit.

Further, we encourage you to consider the implicit flip-side of your argument that, to paraphrase, one can only be happy or have a meaningful life if one does what they love. The incredibly insulting inference being that people who don't do exactly what they love can't possibly be happy or have a meaningful life.

Good luck with your parakeet farm or whatever it is you do.

Cordially,

The Good People at JustTryingToMakeRent Co.




Dear JustTryingToMakeRent employees,

Thank you very much for your open letter! And thank you for making the world such a wonderful place where coal is mined and plants are watered and everything works so flawlessly.

Is it really impossible to love those jobs? I often have the feeling that at least some of you are in a great mood when I meet you at your workplaces. For example when I visit my dentist. The whole team is always in a great mood, making jokes with each other, being friendly, enjoying the workday.

If there are jobs that simply cannot be loved - I think we should enhance or automate those. Let's start the debate. What job is nothing but shit?

I don't run a parakeet farm. I object to the "use" of animals. One of the things I love to do is write software though. Right now I am sitting in a nice internet cafe. At a window that overlooks a river. Sipping coffee, enhancing an application. And right now I love it. Chances are good that some of you are users of the application.

Yours, TekMol




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