There’s nothing more demoralizing than being on a “make work” job, where you’re so silod off from the world there’s no connection from what you do to any meaningful outcome.
And that defines an incredibly large chunk of corporate jobs.
It’s why in goulogs and concentration camps they make prisoners break rocks.
Yeah, I think the reason behind the work plays a big role in our perception of it. If we are building an earthen wall to protect our friends and family from invaders, there is a finite amount of work that ends with a sense of accomplishment. If we are looking through the corporation’s quarterly reports in order to become a fraction of a percent more profitable, the work continues forever and the end result is meaningless.
In addition the physical direct aspect of the wall building. At least for me any manufacturing job suits exactly because at the end of the day there’s a literal physical representation of what i did. Later going to the store and having the recognition when seeing something i made.
There was no such connection when trying out office jobs or basically anything else besides manufacturing. Just doing some completely meaningless task the whole day and best case scenario is some random numbers going up.
So while manufacturing is physically tiring, office jobs are soul sucking and client service is just hell in all aspects.
“A real job” I guess does a lot of work here.
There’s nothing more demoralizing than being on a “make work” job, where you’re so silod off from the world there’s no connection from what you do to any meaningful outcome.
And that defines an incredibly large chunk of corporate jobs.
It’s why in goulogs and concentration camps they make prisoners break rocks.
Yeah, I think the reason behind the work plays a big role in our perception of it. If we are building an earthen wall to protect our friends and family from invaders, there is a finite amount of work that ends with a sense of accomplishment. If we are looking through the corporation’s quarterly reports in order to become a fraction of a percent more profitable, the work continues forever and the end result is meaningless.
In addition the physical direct aspect of the wall building. At least for me any manufacturing job suits exactly because at the end of the day there’s a literal physical representation of what i did. Later going to the store and having the recognition when seeing something i made.
There was no such connection when trying out office jobs or basically anything else besides manufacturing. Just doing some completely meaningless task the whole day and best case scenario is some random numbers going up.
So while manufacturing is physically tiring, office jobs are soul sucking and client service is just hell in all aspects.
“Being on standby” is torture.
No. Give me task. Let me do it. Let me be done.
also “in the same way” - that’s a broad net