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There's a difference between grueling labor and fulfilling labor. Far be it from me to preach puritanism, but endeavoring to build something is very fulfilling
by omginternets 10y ago
There's a difference between grueling labor and fulfilling labor. Far be it from me to preach puritanism, but endeavoring to build something is very fulfilling by nature. Hard work for hard work's sake (or divine reward or whatever) is silly, but I think you're throwing out the baby with the bath water.
- coldtea 10y ago>There's a difference between grueling labor and fulfilling labor. Perhaps, but what's fulfils one's life is in no way necessary to be labor -- which, especially in its modern form (9-5, desk work, meetings etc), is a highly constructed cultural artifact as opposed to anything inherent in how people as a species need.
- dsfyu404ed 10y agoMany people find being part of a team that build something great or useful to be fulfilling and take pride in their work even if they're only a small replaceable part of the process. The blue collar profession related subreddits are a pretty good example of this. Pretty much all lower level software development is no more remarkable than working on an assembly line. Code I've written helped streamline testing for a tiny bit of code that's a tiny part of a single piece of software that's part of a massive software hardware system that can be used make it harder to slip an IED under a dead camel without anyone noticing. Is that really any less important than the guy checking bearing tolerances before shipping the bearings to the manufacturer of the machine used roll the threads on the bolts that will affix to the airplane the hardware the software system uses? We're all just a tiny part of a bigger machine on some level.