Understanding the “Slacker”

 

Understanding the “Slacker”

Slackers have a bad reputation. By definition, they are labeled as goldbricking, freeloading, underachieving procrastinators. However, I hope to offer a different perspective on the current way employers, family members, friends, and coworkers view those considered to be slacking on the job and in their lives. I think there's a lot more to the so-called “Slacker” than looking for the easy way out, jumping from gig to gig. So, let's get to it, shall we?

Slackers have goals, interests, desires, needs, ambitions, and passions just like anyone else. They just wanted to live life and do things on their terms, their way, and within their time frames. Slackers resist and rebel against unbending structure, rules, and regulations. The slacker will eventually take that highway whenever forced to choose between workplace authorities, "our way, or the highway." 

Slackers are creative, spontaneous, energetic, engaging, and, believe it or not, hardworking and committed just as much as corporate ladder climbers trapped in their cubicles or, worse, boxed into a dead-end job at a small—to mid-size business workspace. Slackers need the freedom of independence and to be surrounded by people of like kind and quality of mind. To live a successful slacker lifestyle, one must find what they love to do most and pursue that path with passion and relentless vigor. 

Slackers need not let others shame them for harboring dreams and aspirations that the mainstream go-along-to-get-alongers lack the imagination and vision for themselves. When others see slackers slacking on the job, shirking their duties, doing the bare minimum, AKA quiet quitting, they are merely bidding their time until they can financially and securely tell their supervisors and managers, "You can take this job and shove it." The “Slacker” knows they’ll live to slack another day.

The bottom line: It takes a thick skin to suffer the slings and arrows of those who misunderstand the slacker's true mindset, and it takes courage for slackers to pursue their  “Labor of Love.” But if you're given enough thought, if you love it, it ain't laborious! 

Well, that's all I can say to support my case today. If you have thoughts to the contrary, feel free to leave your comments below.

C-ya later this week with some more Sh!t to-Chat to contemplate.😀