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[krw]

Nice!

[The Daring Dufas]

I was inspired and in my subconscious must have thought of Dennis Miller. ^_^

TDD

[Bill]

Do you think if a dyed-in-the-wool farmer hit the lottery that he would quit farming?

Do you think Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, The Wright Brothers, Paul Erdos, worked as hard as they did "for the money"?

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[The Daring Dufas]

I think it was fame(facetious), very few people think of the most important inventor of them all in the last few hundred years, Nikola Tesla. He was smarter than Thomas Edison but most folks know nothing about him because Edison had a better press agent. ^_^

TDD

[krw]

Certainly.

There are exceptions. Some people their occupation isn't work (I'm sure you wouldn't like to acknowledge priests in this class). BTW, you forgot Bill Gates. Oh, wait...

[krw]

It't hard to include crazies in these sorts of discussions, though there is some of that in all "inventors". Tesla was the Macadamia of the nutties, though.

[The Daring Dufas]

You are using what he invented every day of your life. Crazy people are the most creative and the mainstream always seems to shun them until they are needed, like during wartime. World governments sought out the crazies during WWII in order to come up with ways to win the war. ^_^

TDD

[Bill]

Like you suggested above, I think the trick is to choose an occupation that isn't "all work". That's why many people try to go into jobs consistent with their interests. Some don't.

[krw]

That doesn't change the fact that Tesla was a certifiable nutcase. Much of what people today attribute to his genius might as well be aliens in Area 51.

[krw]

Very few have a better job than I have but I wouldn't be there the nanosecond after a MegaMillions payout. I once thought I would but that was when I was a lefty loon.

Irrelevant. It's still a job.

[Ed Pawlowski]

Friends often ask me when I'm going to retire. I have no plans for a couple of more years at least. Going to work for me is about as enjoyable as going to the coffee shop to met some friends. First thing I do is make a pot of tea and sit with one of my co-workers for an hour. Then I go out to the shop and see every employee to say "good morning" and make sure everything is OK with them.

Of 15 employees, 6 of us are over 60. Two recent retirees were 76 and

2. If I was putting wheels and lug nuts on cars as they went down the assembly line, I'd have been out two years ago.

[The Daring Dufas]

Yea, he was such a nutcase that The FBI scarfed up all his papers after his death. I really have to wonder what secret devices the government developed from the crazy genius's work? ^_^

TDD

[Bill]

Then you would need to figure out what you are going to do with your time instead--in a way that won't "ruin" your life (like straying into a drug or alcohol problem).

[Bill]

Who are the "crazy people": Those who can focus or those who cannot? Those with passion?

[The Daring Dufas]

Just because your body is failing physically doesn't mean your brain has stopped working. Me and my friends who are disabled and don't wish to give up on life and keep working somehow are trying to find young people who are not slackers and potheads to pass our knowledge and skills on to. My friend LM who's 62 has gotten to the point where he's as crippled as I am and his son is going back to school for HVAC training which has us talking about how we can teach him what we know. It makes you wish you were young again. ^_^

TDD

[The Daring Dufas]

The crazy people are those people not groked by the mainstream and are given the label "crazy". ^_^

TDD

[Bill]

The adjective "crazy" is too vague to proceed with it. I don't think I ever use the word. I doubt they use it in law or psychology.

But when you say, "Like The Daring Dufas", everyone knows exactly what you mean. ; )

Bill

[krw]

Put down the refer. The black helicopters are really dark blue.

[krw]

Spoken like a true relativistic moralist (aka leftist) loon. There is a *big* difference between passion and lunacy. Tesla wasn't sane.

[krw]

No, those who have lost reality are labeled "crazy".