The nature of work

The job I want:

$dollars++ while sleep(1);
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The job I get:

{
    work();
    redo;
    get_rich();
}
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That's life!

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RE: The nature of work by Mushy (Scribe) on Aug 29, 2000 at 01:48 UTC
`% cat life.pl #!/usr/bin/perl # life.pl use Reality; # from tilly while ($alive && !$rich) { $money = work(); $taxes = 30 + rand 20; $money -= $taxes; pay($taxes); } die "Empty handed."; __END__ % perl -c life.pl Warning: The value of $rich is always false. %` [download] - Mushy	[reply] [d/l]
RE: RE: The nature of work by mofo (Acolyte) on Sep 01, 2000 at 23:53 UTC
Good one!!!	[reply]
Re: RE: The nature of work by Fastolfe (Vicar) on Feb 06, 2001 at 21:42 UTC
I wish I only paid 50$ in taxes tops.	[reply]
Re^3: The nature of work by CountZero (Bishop) on Sep 01, 2004 at 15:49 UTC
Nobody said the unit was USD! It could be something like "the average national income of a small developing country" (on second thought that is still not much -- and if it is negative you get a tax-refund). CountZero "If you have four groups working on a compiler, you'll get a 4-pass compiler." - Conway's Law	[reply]
RE: The nature of work by t0mas (Priest) on Aug 28, 2000 at 18:21 UTC
Poor tilly: That's life! $life = "hard"; :) /brother t0mas	[reply]