Motivation and Despair

I don't know how many have been subjected to things like "motivational posters" and their ilk, but as a cynical IT professional I much prefer the more accurate "demotivational products" from https://despair.com/. My favourite is the retired demotivator (https://despair.com/collections/retired) : 

I wish I could still get the desk sized variants of that one for my work desk.

Anybody else have any favourites of this sort of thing they'd like to share?

Parents
  • When I was claiming ESA a few years ago, I had to visit a government-appointed private agency once a month to see a 'job coach'.  The walls of their office were covered in the things.  My favourite was:

    'There's a job out there somewhere with your name on it.'

    You mean, like a bullet?

    I got a little book one Christmas: The Little Book of Complete B****cks - The Definintive Guide to Mind, Body, Spirit and the Healing Power of Just About Everything, by Alistair Beaton.  Each day, I flick through it to find something to keep me going.

    Today:

    BEING YOU

    It's okay to be you.

    It's not okay to be somebody else.

    Spare a thought for all those people

    who are somebody else.

    It must be awful for them!

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  • When I was claiming ESA a few years ago, I had to visit a government-appointed private agency once a month to see a 'job coach'.  The walls of their office were covered in the things.  My favourite was:

    'There's a job out there somewhere with your name on it.'

    You mean, like a bullet?

    I got a little book one Christmas: The Little Book of Complete B****cks - The Definintive Guide to Mind, Body, Spirit and the Healing Power of Just About Everything, by Alistair Beaton.  Each day, I flick through it to find something to keep me going.

    Today:

    BEING YOU

    It's okay to be you.

    It's not okay to be somebody else.

    Spare a thought for all those people

    who are somebody else.

    It must be awful for them!

Children
  • 'There's a job out there somewhere with your name on it.'

    You mean, like a bullet?

    ROFL.

    Yeshshir, there's a job out there that you definitely need like a bullet in the head!

  • Another:

    YOUR FEELINGS OR THEIRS?

    Without knowing it, you may be ascribing to

    other people the feelings you are

    experiencing yourself.

    Because you hate yourself, you think other

    people hate you.

    This is known as projection.

    Sometimes, of course, other people really

    do hate you.

    This is known as hatred.

    There's not much you can do about it.

    You're probably just the sort of person that

    people hate.