An extract from the FRIENDS TV series:
“I silk-screen T-shirts now.
– Really? What’s that like?
– It’s really fulfilling doing something you hate for no money.”
Meaning:
“– Now I set prints, pictures, inscriptions, and texts onto T-shirts.
– Really? And, do you like your job? What do you feel?
– What could be better than getting too little money for a job you dislike?”
(Friends, Season 09/Episode 14)
π Silk-screen – a stencil method of applying inscriptions, pictures, or patterns to clothes.
π What’s it like?/ What's that like? – And how is it? / Please describe it!
This question can be asked to someone doing something unfamiliar to you, with which you personally have no experience and you ask them to describe the activity of the job.
π For no money (literal meaning is "for free") – an exaggeration implying a meager, beggarly, inadequate, and low salary because if the salary equaled zero, continuing to work would be complete madness.
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Fulfillment or Realization of yourself is a feeling of pleasure or satisfaction that you supposedly get from doing your job just because you believe you’re doing something very important, like helping people or making some difference – you get the idea. In my understanding, the term “fulfillment”, applied to an employee, is a toxic one. Apparently, an average employee is not a very rich person who has to work 9 to 5, thus having very little free time and literally giving their life away. So, the idea is that this person should find some sort of “fulfillment” (satisfaction) instead of realizing how sickening their situation is and trying to get out of it as soon as possible. Pathetic!
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