What does your post have to do with employment?Synthesis wrote:Because at some point, you have to begin to take responsibility for yourself and make your life about helping others [after getting your own act together] and not worrying about how [fill in the blank] everything is or what anybody else thinks.LuckyR wrote:Well to be fair, if you work at a job that has little autonomy and no appreciation from your corkers and clients, then why would you be invested in the work itself, that sort of thing is just a soul crushing means to a paycheck.
Why Do People Lust After "Something for Nothing?"
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Because many people see their job as an opportunity to help others [no matter how crappy the job might seem]. It's not about the job, it's about how you do the job and how this effort affects others.LuckyR wrote: What does your post have to do with employment?
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If you replace "many" with: a lucky few, I agree with you. Unfortunately in the modern era, employers have too often used computer tech to squeeze every iota of value out of their workers by watching over them with the eye that never sleeps.Synthesis wrote:Because many people see their job as an opportunity to help others [no matter how crappy the job might seem]. It's not about the job, it's about how you do the job and how this effort affects others.LuckyR wrote: What does your post have to do with employment?
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I understand, but isn't it everybody's primary job to get their own act together in some fashion? At some point, folks have to start taking responsibility for their own actions and resist the excesses that seem to define our culture.LuckyR wrote:If you replace "many" with: a lucky few, I agree with you. Unfortunately in the modern era, employers have too often used computer tech to squeeze every iota of value out of their workers by watching over them with the eye that never sleeps.Synthesis wrote: (Nested quote removed.)
Because many people see their job as an opportunity to help others [no matter how crappy the job might seem]. It's not about the job, it's about how you do the job and how this effort affects others.
It is just as easy to dwell on the bad as it is on the good, but reality is smack in the middle. If you can simply accept things as they are, then you will not worry about your own plight so very much and make your life about helping others, the only path that leads to a contented life.
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I agree with you completely. You have described an optimal situation. My point was to note that different folks have different abilities to fulfill such ideals.Synthesis wrote:I understand, but isn't it everybody's primary job to get their own act together in some fashion? At some point, folks have to start taking responsibility for their own actions and resist the excesses that seem to define our culture.LuckyR wrote: (Nested quote removed.)
If you replace "many" with: a lucky few, I agree with you. Unfortunately in the modern era, employers have too often used computer tech to squeeze every iota of value out of their workers by watching over them with the eye that never sleeps.
It is just as easy to dwell on the bad as it is on the good, but reality is smack in the middle. If you can simply accept things as they are, then you will not worry about your own plight so very much and make your life about helping others, the only path that leads to a contented life.
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