“No man ever listened himself out of a job.”
— Calvin Coolidge

 

 

 

 

I saw this in a Dilbert strip.

The word is ennui, which is pronounced “ahn-wee”, and it means a feeling of utter weariness and discontent resulting from satiety or lack of interest; boredom.

The word satiety means the quality or state of being fed or gratified to or beyond capacity.

In other words, when you are stuck in an endeavor that is no longer challenging, when the path you are on has no more to offer you, ennui is the inevitable result.

I just paid 80 cents for a small bag of chips from a vending machine. I counted the chips in the bag. (I know, that is SO… obsessive, to use a polite word.) There were about 14 chips in the bag. That’s nearly 6 cents each. I am feeling old. I never thought I’d see the day when I’d pay 6 cents apiece for potato chips.