Fuck, I dont want to die at work.

[NightWatcher]

go outside, take a day off, hug a loved one, smell a flower...

Dont let your corporate masters take your life. They only want you for what they can get out of you. Dont give it to them. Work for money to buy food, shelter, and a few goods, but dont let the job "become you".

Dont work yourself to death, people.

[graywarrior]

1. At least he died doing what he loves.

[cynatnite]

4. Yep...

not many of us are that lucky.

[verges]

26. That was my thought too...

Some people are lucky enough to have jobs they really love. I think Russert went the way he would have liked. As most telejournalists would. In the chair. Godspeed.

[TheDonkey]

2. Dying with your boots on. Some find it to be the most dignified way to go

Go out, doing what you love and doing it well. Tragic news. RIP.

[But....]

5. How many of us...

love our jobs? It needs to be said.:cry:

[slampoet]

19. Dying with your boots on or dying in the saddle means dying having sex in a lot of the USA.

It didn't mean dying at a desk job when I was growing up.

[slampoet]

21. Why is everyone assuming Russert loved his job? Where is the link?

[Drunken Irishman]

3. He loved working, though. He loved his job.

:(

[graywarrior]

6. Loved his job, his country, his dad....

[Drunken Irishman]

9. Baseball, the Bills, politics and his faith.

:(

[graywarrior]

14. Interviewing politicians, writing, living...

[BlooInBloo]

7. Some people have the good fortune of their vocation being their avocation.

[HughBeaumont]

8. At my old job, two people died of heart attacks while working.

And trust me, these were jobs that paid the bills and that's it. A job like many of us have, because the saying "do what you love, the money will follow" is a giant pile of crapola.

If that doesn't teach one a lesson about life and where we spend most of our time, I don't know what does.

After that, I vowed never to "be" my job. Like the old saying goes: "No one ever went to their graves saying 'sure wish I'd have spent more time at the office!'"

[AlCzervik]

15. when i worked for the May company the guy that worked next to me in the cube farm

died at his desk, i thought he was asleep.

[deadmessengers]

17. But there are people who wish they'd achieved more

While it's true that no one wishes on their deathbed that they spent more time working, I can certainly say that there are people who spend their last days wishing they achieved more during their life. And, like it or not, for some people that means more time working.

[nolabels]

10. Some people like their so called place of employment

Some are self employed. Finding fulfillment with that thing that brings someone livelihood makes it not labor but more to akin of something called an "occupation".

[texastoast]

11. What a great way to go

Beats the hell out of cancer. Out like a light instead of dying by degrees. There's a lot to be said for that.

[azmouse]

20. Sad that there is no chance to say good-bye to family though.

Both my father and my brother died the way Tim Russert did. Suddenly, no warning. No good-byes.

[texastoast]

28. I'm so sorry

It's rough losing family, no matter how we lose them. But I do have faith that we will meet again. I hope you do too.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

23. I knew another big Irishman

Grew up in the streets of Joliet, Illinois, became a lawyer and then a Jesuit, and showed me how to be a lawyer, how to help people, how to live life. Worked with Ramsey Clark, Bill Kunstler, Dan and Phil Berrigan.

He, too, died of a sudden heart attack. "Dead before he hit the floor," the doctors said.

And life has never been the same since.

[texastoast]

27. It's hard for those left behind

You just never know when your time will come. If we really KNOW it can be at any moment, for lots of people, it will change the way they live their lives.

I have a favorite old lawyer I worked with whom I still call on when I'm in a dilemma. He was my mentor and is my example of how I lead my folks. "What would Bill do?" I ask myself. He died of a very rare leukemia. Slowly. I don't think there would have ever been enough time to learn everything he knew. I miss him so.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

30. My hero was named Bill, too

I wrote a book about him. Not a day goes by that I don't do what you do - ask yourself what he would have done.

He left with nothing unsaid, bless him, since he was also a big Irish Catholic guy with a big mouth and a bigger heart. And I took that lesson to heart for my own life.

It doesn't count unless you say it out loud.

We'll always miss them.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

12. I became self-employed and worked harder than I ever have in my life.

It's all on me.

I am my "sales force"

I am my "marketing department"

I am "accounts payable / accounts receivable"

And I LOVE IT.

Some days it tears me a new one.

But my SOUL is my OWN.

My last job was at Cisco Systems. We all know the guy at the top...asshole "Southern Gentleman-slash-benign Buddha figure" John Chambers.

He is very, VERY soft-spoken in the press.

His famous quote is "The secret of doing business is simple. Treat others the way you;d want to be treated."

In reality, Cisco uses L. Ron Hubbard Management Principles,

which dictate (in short) that you are to SERIOUSLY FUCK UP under-performers and give EVERYONE who is HITTING their numbers a "free pass."

So FUCK John Chambers, FUCK Cisco, and thank GOD for my emancipation from death by inches.

:toast:

[bryant69]

13. That's the advantage of being an egotistical tyrant

I work other people to death. Saves me from working myself to death.

Bryant
Check it out -> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[underpants]

16. Well, it *was* in the middle of the day

But I get your drift

[azmouse]

18. We don't have much control over our deaths.

My father died on the Atlantic City boardwalk.
I always felt happy that he died in a place he enjoyed and not full of tubes in a hospital bed.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

25. What a great place to go!

That sounds good, you know? You should be very comforted with that knowledge, that memory.

Thank you.

[spanone]

22. you die when you die

[Carnea]

24. We can't all go like Rockefeller.... 58 is to fucking young. nt

[CrispyQ]

29. I had a boss once, who said,

"The only reason any of us works is to support our private lives." Our department was one of the few in the company where overtime on a regular basis wasn't required - in fact discouraged!

Sadly, I think he was wrong. There are lots of people who define themselves by their work - and that's ok - it's just that they don't understand those of us who don't & no matter how good a job you do, the fact that you aren't corporate, sometimes speaks louder than the quality of your work.

[Darkseid69]

31. I'd only waqnt to die at work...

If I was in porno.

[Ikonoklast]

32. I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my Grandpa

Not screaming in terror like his passengers.


-Emo Phillips

[Taverner]

33. Yes, indeed

Hug your kids/cats/dogs/parrots/fossils tonight folks!

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

34. Sounds like he was taking his work a bit too seriously.

I'm with you. A job is something one does to afford to do other, more interesting, things.