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But isn't that a bad way to live life? Spending the best years of life working a job that you don't like so that you get weekends free?
by hshshshshsh 1y ago
But isn't that a bad way to live life? Spending the best years of life working a job that you don't like so that you get weekends free?
- surgical_fire 1y agoStarving is worse. Try to find a job that is tolerable and devote your free time to things that make you happy - family, friends, hobbies, etc
- rewgs 1y agoYou're both not wrong. What @surgical_fire is describing is the "minimum viable product" for a career. It's the thing that serves the basics on Maslow's Hierarchy. What @hshshshshsh is describing is anything past that. We briefly exist sandwiched between two eternities -- shouldn't we care about the quality of our time during the thing that takes up the largest quantity of our time? The problem is that, the issue that @hshshshshsh is pointing out is precisely what makes the minimum @surgical_fire is describing damn near impossible to find. Because no one gives a shit about users, values, mission, etc, the company suffers and turns into a shit-show, incentivizing people to become more selfish so that they don't get sucked into the vortex of shit. In order to reach the minimum of a "tolerable" job that doesn't suck up all your free time or make your time there a living hell, the company _must_ engage with at least some of what @hshshshshsh is describing. This requires some amount of good faith from the majority involved. This is a tricky and fragile thing. It's easy to lose. And thus the cycle begins anew. Ultimately, we need more people thinking like @hshshshshsh so that we can get what @surgical_fire is describing.
- hshshshshsh 1y agoYou should consider doing standup comedy. That made me smile.