Working is rubbish.

So there I was, jobless and broke, relying on the good grace of my family for food. A pit of despair, you might think. No sir! Amongst many a leisurely pursuit, I devoted fully two strait months to playing chess, almost exclusively on chess.com. Bright and early I would rise (sometime after 11am usually), casually make a coffee and toast some crumpets. On my computer would go, running my routine hotmail -> facebook -> chess.com sequence that i follow every day. My move in a game? OK buster, lets see. On goes the analysis board, and some three hours later I play my deeply considered move. My rating went from 1300 to +1500.

Then, I get a job. A good job too, with a handsome salary and tempting benefits (one of which, rather wonderfully, is unlimited free rail travel). Suddenly I am up at 6am, and staggering back home at 6pm, utterly drained. My computer goes on, and it is my move in all my games. My brain feels like a big damp cabbage so I concentrate merely on the most pressing games (regularly letting three day games go down to the last few hours). Yet they are a blur, and my frequncy of panic ridden blunders rises. My rating falls, and falls some more. The solid bedrock I had lain in my leisure has eroded under the savage sea of employment.

I say again, with vigour - working is RUBBISH.

On a brighter note, I can now:

a) Eat

b) Pay Rent

c) purchase premium chess.com membership (when I get paid)

But I'm still bitter. Oh Lord, why are the days so short? Alas.

(I know what you are thinking. Yes, I am lazy and yes, I know that everyone works. I just think there is a distinctly unfair work/life balance in the modern world. We all work like dogs for some future we're told we're supposed to be building for, then the economy falls to pieces despite our efforts. Did you see some prick from Wall Street has swindled $50 BILLION from the world's banks? I'm so angry I swear I would tear the motherf#~=er's f#~=ing head off if I saw him. Is this why we work so hard, so piss-stains like you can screw us all over?!? Calm...)

Rant over. Thank you for your time.  

All the more reason to get rich and retire!

You might even say that this is the Key benefit of the Credit Crunch.

I'm still in the not working zone. aahh, lots of leisurely chesssss.