I'll do one better. I am strongly opposed to 2023 term : 'career'. It's a common excuse : "I cannot do <insert fun thing>, or have to do <insert undesirable th

I'll do one better. I am strongly opposed to 2023 term : 'career'. It's a common excuse : "I cannot do <insert fun thing>, or have to do <insert undesirable thing> for my career." The word is now untethered from all responsibilities and benefits that came from being a career professional, and instead just signifies the constant urge to be working in pursuit of some arbitrary career. Your career used to be a lifetime job. Your coworkers were your neighbors. Your boss was your mentor. Your company men send their children to the same school and you retired with a hefty pension. Your wife's friends were your coworkers' wives. Work was real work. You made physical products or you worked at your own little shop. It's all gone now. Now, 'Career' throws you around the world, destroying your communities. Dual-income households have to choose between career and children. Pensions are dead (For good imo). Most people work on things without clear positive real-life impacts and you own none of it. Your boss is incentivized to abuse you in a capitalistic rat race until you burn out, and your kids get thrown in the same blender at school at an even earlier age. So I ask, what even is a career ?