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Poll: Meaningless Work or Boring Colleagues?
This seems to be a choice many of us face in the course of their career.
Would you share your preference?
If you want a frame of reference, imagine choosing between a cool startup and government work.
- JohnFen 9mo agoBoring colleagues all the way. I don't need or expect my coworkers to entertain me. I do need to find some sort of meaning in my work.
- sam_lowry_ 9mo agoIt's not really about entertaining. More about the opportunity to grow and learn and experience cool new technologies. Imagine asking a technical question to a group of 50 senior engineers and getting only personal advice not to stick your neck out.
- appreciatorBus 9mo agoI think you’ll have to rethink your poll then. The original language didn’t talk about the technical interests or acumen of the “boring” colleagues, it just said “boring”
- JohnFen 9mo agoHmm. I guess I don't really understand what you mean by "boring colleagues", then.
- codingdave 9mo agoThe only places where I've encountered that kind of culture is in the enterprise IT world, with my worst anecdotes coming from the insurance industry. Startups, small companies, and government have all been far more engaged with their work and the tech.
- codingdave 9mo agoI'm not sure I follow the correlations of cool startup/government as it relates to boring/meaningless. You can have both boring and interesting people in both startups and in governments. Likewise with meaning - there are startups and government jobs at both extremes. Overall, I don't think boring people and meaningless work are correlated enough to force a choice between them. Why do you think this choice is something we will face?
- JohnFen 9mo agoThe most technically interesting, cutting edge, and meaningful work I've done as an employee was in a government job.