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If work was fun it would be called vacation. If you actually like your job and find it stimulating then you are lucky - myself included. You typically get paid
by seibelj 7y ago
If work was fun it would be called vacation. If you actually like your job and find it stimulating then you are lucky - myself included. You typically get paid to work because it’s something you wouldn’t do for free, but is useful to someone else.
- inetknght 7y agoWork doesn't need to be fun. It also doesn't need to be demoralizing or humiliating.
- Bubbadoo 7y agoAn honest job is no more demoralizing or humiliating than we make it out to be. And, most importantly, no one owes us a job here in the US. Your skills are what determines your worth in our byzantine and feudal job market. At the end of the day, the US labor pool has been commoditized, much of this government-sponsored. Like in any commodities market, there are a few winners and lots of losers. Like that form of 'legalized extortion' we call the US health care system, the H1B guest worker visa program and our ailing infrastructure, much of this is due to our Government's actions.
- badrequest 7y agoI missed where the article called for a resurgence of fun work, can you point that out to me?
- sudosysgen 7y agoNot true. There are quite a few jobs that I would do for free, but I so happen to need food and shelter.
- coldtea 7y ago>If you actually like your job and find it stimulating then you are lucky - myself included If you're among the lucky, then maybe try some empathy? Not to mention the article is about bad paying, abusing, no opportunity jobs, not about "fun vs work".
- seibelj 7y agoEmpathy for what? Someone has to be a garbage man, sorry not everyone can write music and novels all day.
- iudqnolq 7y agoUnfortunate realities aren't something to be proud of. Just because it's necessary doesn't make it good, and doesn't mean you can't have empathy
- coldtea 7y agoEasy to say when one is not the garbage man... Not to mention that it's not true that "someone has to be a garbage man" (anymore so than a woman must "clean the dishes" in a household). People could be responsible for cleaning up their own shit, or take turns to do it. The same way Japanese schoolchildren are made to clean their own school (toilets etc) - and in many armies, soldiers do that for their units too. So, no some specific person relegated to clean up others' shit is not "required".
- seibelj 7y agoI am constantly amazed by the guilt people feel that others have to work jobs that they feel are “beneath” them. No, we don’t need some sort of utopian society where we all rotate jobs so we all get to experience what being a garbage man is like. You are an elitist that believes “dirty jobs” are shameful and something to feel bad about. You must live an exhausting life. I’m happy there are people all throughout society who still get stuff done and keep the world turning.
- coldtea 7y ago>You are an elitist that believes “dirty jobs” are shameful and something to feel bad about. Well, you are conveniently not a garbage man.