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Isn't that the whole reason of why jobs need to be done? Someone has a problem and they want to get it solved (but don't want to do it themselves) so they pay
by joelrunyon 14y ago
Isn't that the whole reason of why jobs need to be done?
Someone has a problem and they want to get it solved (but don't want to do it themselves) so they pay someone else to do it for them.
That's the reason work is called work – it's work.
- potatolicious 14y agoYou're disregarding specialization. Someone has a problem and they want to get it solved - but they can't do it themselves, so they pay someone else to do it for them. Things get outsourced for this as much as "I don't want to do it myself". And therein lies the space for interesting work.
- joelrunyon 14y agoThey could do it themselves but it's more valuable for them to pay you (or someone who already knows how) to do it than it is to learn & do it themselves. It's that gap - that allows value to be extracted from the job.
- Dewie 14y agoIf an employer has 20 employees, the biggest reason for that is that she can't do labour the equivalent of 21 persons herself. Work is simply things that need to be done; whether your boss finds your type of work fulfilling, or you find it fulfilling, is coincidental to that fact. It doesn't help that our western culture largely connotes any kind of work with drudgery and pain. I had a task to play a certain computer game in order to get myself acquainted with the mechanics and the feel of the game. It's a fun game; I assumed beforehand because I've played similar games before. But I didn't get around to doing it until two weeks later. Why? Because it was work.