Your Job On the Line/Bank on This/Outside/Inside

So many changes and so quickly our next generation wont know the little things we enjoyed doing like licking a stamp and attaching it to a letter and visualising our friend getting it and reading what we had written,now the communation is instant ,no time to give thought to what we might say in a letter ,it seems like you loose the good things now and the truth is i don't always like it one bit.

Blue.

Totally agree with bluegum. Sad to note that old type of doing transactions are getting rarer by the day. Everything is so clinical now a days that I do miss the corner shops where we could chat up with the owner and get up to date news about happenings around your home. Those sentiments and emotions attached to our day to day interactions with various shopkeepers now no longer exists. Just we will have to live with it from now on.

I love going to my bank, they know my name, greet me a good day every time, small chit chat, town gossop and all that... simply love it.

I think we are so reliant on technology the simple little things are going by the way side, I love writing letters to family and keep that up too - my moms probably older than all of you and she adores letters, doesn't have a computer and I like it that way too.

I like your stance Wombie :-)

Yeah there's definitely something more refreshing, almost exciting about actually going out and doing these things we can so 'conveniently' do at home now. Granted, some of the things I have caved and do online, like bank transfers ... but I also still go to the bank from time to time. If I'm not going to have time to get to the bank and we're going to be in a financial pickle, then sure, I'll use the online banking ... but if I've got time, I'd rather go to the bank ... gives me a sense that someone is really working with me and my money, it's not just out there in limbo somewhere.

Meh. I never liked licking stamps. They tasted weird. I HATE going to the bank. I already work effectively a fifty hour work week. I don't want to spend my personal time working. All of these advances are pretty much good things.

There is nothing stopping anybody from writing a letter today. A day might come when it's too expensive to send letters but I suspect that day is far from today. So go ahead write somebody. Most people seem to like actually receiving something in the mail.

As for the loss of jobs that's the hiccup. Mostly because very few people are actually independent anymore. We claim we are but we're not. Sooner or later that'll unfuck itself though.

bluegum: It's nice to see that you agree with me. And you're so right about the written word--who writes regular correspondence letters and mails them with a stamp anymore? Such a piece of Americana slipping away!

scipio: Oh, I know! It seems you don't hear much from convienience store clerks, huh? Anytime I'm in a small shop and the owners enjoy small talk, it's something worth slowing down and appreciating.

lucyt: Nice to see you agree with me, also. And I take back what I said to bluegum----you still write letters! That's really great, and maybe I'll take the time to write one of my sisters who is confined in a health care facility.

hegemone: I really didn't mean to put anyone down for using online banking like I did.....so sorry as I know there are multitudes of folks who do, and it's fine if a person is comfortable with it. I may get in a jam sometime and wish I had it, too! But like you, it's more "personal" to actually go to the bank and see a live person.

sean renaud: To each his own. I meant no harm. I just hate to see so many things become so automated and impersonal. I hope you're right about the other stuff.

Thanks all for reading and commenting

I know you meant no harm, I just hate spending my time at the bank and I wish electronic banking was MORE of an option for me than it is but as a business owner until I get to the point where I have one of those neat phones that can deposit checks and I stop accepting cash I have to go to the bank. No real alternatives there.

It'll unfuck itself, or we'll go to war and the lack of people will unfuck itself. I didn't say it wasn't gonna suck.

There will never barring nuclear fall out be a day when people don't go outside. Their may be a day when nobody has to but the other part won't happen. Hell with any luck more people will go outside. If I could do my banking on Big Bear Lake with a beer and a fishing pole. . .I'd choose a to go the beach where it's not freezing cold but still.

sean renaud: Glad I didn't offend. I think part of the problem with me is that I lately have too much time and nothing to do. I wish I was in your shoes, then I might have a different take on things.

I hope you are right about there never being a day when people "don't even have to go outside." That's such a scary thought, and one I guess I got from the sci-fi movies. At least you know what I mean about being outside and experiencing the world. I guess you can take your gadget and fish while you bank--on the bank where you catch fish! Ha.

Then go do something. I find it facinating that someone is complaining that they don't fear not a world where they aren't forced to go outside to simotaneously have a lot of time and nothing to do. Don't they have museums, or malls, or parks where you live? Why do you need a purpose beyond your own happiness to get outside the walls of your home? It seems like your main problem is either a lack of people to do things with that have a similar schedule to you or it never occured to you for whatever reason to go out some place because you felt like it.

Trust me this isn't like WoW you can go to the mall and wander around just because you wanted to see if there were any new stores. Of course if you need to be put on a scavenger hunt across the city to keep you doing shit I suppose that'll give you a purpose. :-p

sean renaud: I kind of limit myself mile-wise, but I never limit myself mentally. The schedule thing is somewhat of a problem personally, but I do wander around on my own to my limits all the time. I have purpose, and usually that purpose is to explore as far as I feel comfortable going.