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That feels like the alienation of labour that Marx wrote about. The hardest part of my previous jobs were what you describe. Either a lack of autonomy, or work
by nicbou 3y ago
That feels like the alienation of labour that Marx wrote about.
The hardest part of my previous jobs were what you describe. Either a lack of autonomy, or work whose output is so abstract as to seem pointless. I had a job where I literally couldn't explain what I was doing. Another had me pretend to work on a project that was already cancelled.
Now I'm self-employed and my job feels a lot more meaningful. It moves a needle somewhere.
- happymellon 3y ago> Another had me pretend to work on a project that was already cancelled. I've had to do that in the past, knowing that a projects cancelled but having to continue. In my case it was because we were doing work for a vendor, so we had to wrap everything up to reach the checkpoint and get paid. Soul sucking knowing that it is just getting it to a state that it can get shelved rather than everyone agreeing to just stop.