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The job is but one dimension of life, and it's really not my task to judge anyone based solely upon their waypoint of the moment. What else are they doing? Do

The job is but one dimension of life, and it's really not my task to judge anyone based solely upon their waypoint of the moment. What else are they doing? Do they have goals? Are they socially connected and building up those around them? You might see someone, for example, busking on the corner and jump to a wildly erroneous conclusion about them... https://x.com/bluezharp/status/1822666701814608086 https://x.com/bluezharp/status/1822666701814608086

Avicebron 2y ago
> The job is but one dimension of life, and it's really not my task to judge anyone based solely upon their waypoint of the moment. You're not engaging with the real and acute problem of, 1) keypusher gets to look at barista and say "oof, no medical insurance, no investments, living paycheck to paycheck" must be their waypoint, hopefully at 10 years deep into that barista career they get their break as a senior ruby engineer, good thing they were "just at a waypoint" 2). > What else are they doing? Do they have goals? Are they socially connected and building up those around them? Are they healthy? Have they been able to maintain the same level of fitness as someone who works 4 hours a week writing internal tooling vs dodging traffic and dealing with an equally financially unstable manager screwing their ability to pay rent the next week? Really smitty
- smitty1e 2y ago
  > You're not engaging By what rule am I engaging? It sounds as though there is a hierarchy on offer here, based upon salary/benefits, no? The point I'm after here is that, while salary/benefits are a relatively straightforward metric, they are not the only metric. Do we have rules of thumb by which we come to an initial evaluation of situations? Of course we do. But let us leave a little wiggle room and not close the case until the whole situation is understood, say I. Really, avicebron.

Avicebron 2y ago

> The job is but one dimension of life, and it's really not my task to judge anyone based solely upon their waypoint of the moment. You're not engaging with the real and acute problem of, 1) keypusher gets to look at barista and say "oof, no medical insurance, no investments, living paycheck to paycheck" must be their waypoint, hopefully at 10 years deep into that barista career they get their break as a senior ruby engineer, good thing they were "just at a waypoint" 2). > What else are they doing? Do they have goals? Are they socially connected and building up those around them? Are they healthy? Have they been able to maintain the same level of fitness as someone who works 4 hours a week writing internal tooling vs dodging traffic and dealing with an equally financially unstable manager screwing their ability to pay rent the next week? Really smitty

smitty1e 2y ago
> You're not engaging By what rule am I engaging? It sounds as though there is a hierarchy on offer here, based upon salary/benefits, no? The point I'm after here is that, while salary/benefits are a relatively straightforward metric, they are not the only metric. Do we have rules of thumb by which we come to an initial evaluation of situations? Of course we do. But let us leave a little wiggle room and not close the case until the whole situation is understood, say I. Really, avicebron.