Working Life Quotes

“Bak stood a moment, as though considering whether the sum total of their shared working life was ending in a minus or a plus.”
― Jussi Adler-Olsen, Disgrace

“The ecclesia of new technologies makes us think and work differently than not only the ancient civilizations did, but from how we worked and organized information a decade ago.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Working life seemed to be one enormous con to me, a deception so brilliant that it had reeled in entire generations of wide-eyed graduates bursting with ideas and energy and youthful enthusiasm, only to station them in front of photocopiers or laminators or shredders. It didn't really matter what your job title was or which company you worked for, most jobs seemed to boil down to moving bits of paper from A to B, appeasing unnecessarily awful people over the phone or email and staring incomprehensibly at spreadsheets.”
― Kate MacDougall, London's Number One Dog-Walking Agency

“The corporate ladder is a vertical tunnel of shit. You climb because you’re terrified of falling, but the higher you get, the worse the smell.”
― Lokesh Tuli, Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”

“There is a invisible timeline that everybody seems to follow for some f*cking reason

Graduate at this age, get a job at this, earn this much, marry here, have kids there, buy a house at 30,
retire at 60!

Who the f*ck said life has to be this way?

Listen to me:

Make mistakes. Break hearts. Write the novel. Crash the damn car just do whatever you have do but just dont die before you are officially dead!”
― Lokesh Tuli, Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”

“Let’s be honest.

Salary is the drug they give you to forget your f*cking dreams.

"They tell you it's ‘stability.'

That’s the fucking pitch right?. Sit in the cubicle, dont ask questions, watch the damn clock & eat the bad sandwich.

You are trading your only life for a Toyota Camry and a weekend that feels too short.

That’s a bad deal, even for a hooker.”
― Lokesh Tuli, Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”

“If you’re too sad, you can’t work. If you’re too happy, you realize you don’t need the work.

So they keep you right there in the middle. ‘Okay.’

It’s a trap. A golden cage where nothing hurts, but nothing bleeds either.

The world wants you numb because numb people buy toaster ovens.

Screw ‘okay.’ Go get your heart broken. Go get into a fistfight. Feel something, you, numb bastard.”
― Lokesh Tuli, Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”

“I have spent half of my life trying to play the good guy.

You know

Less loud. Less blunt.

Less chaotic, less of an emotional trainwreck, biting my own tongue so I don’t scare the civilians.

But love isn’t supposed to be a fucking censorship board. If you have to carve out my own wild, blunt, broken heart just to fit into their neat little box of 'easy to love,'

It ain't worth the squeeze.

Love is the riot. It is the storm.

and I am officially done apologizing for the noise.”
― Lokesh Tuli, Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”