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Are you satisfied with your job?

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Yatzee

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I have enclosed here a link to one of the most fascinating occurrences of our time that, I myself recognized, but never gave much thought to. I'm sure you all know friends and family that are engaged in this situation. As a trades person I was lucky to feel gratified in my occupation but I'm sure there are lot's of other people who wonder when they'll find a truly rewarding occupation. Please read the full article - it's utterly fascinating.

https://strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs/
 
This is the sort of thing that academics think of because they just can’t conceive of ever doing a job that’s meaningful.
 
I didn’t realize helping to feed the world was a bullshit job. I always thought those were reserved for government workers and news media people. I guess I’d better quit while I’m ahead.
 
For me, my "job" was a path of how to spend my life.
I picked one I thought would give me satisfaction for a days work as well as make it easy to wake up in the morning to get back to it.

Fast forward 50 years.---I have been blessed with great adventures in living life and meeting people through my work.

Question---for a young twenty-something sort.--If you did not need money how would you pave your path for the next 50 years?
What would you do to fill your days/weeks/years?

Some folks might insist that working for a living is cruel and unusual punishment for being alive.:realcrazy:

I see it as a glorious opportunity to live life fully. As we age we tend to reflect from time to time as friends and family die off.
The typical conversation for/about someone that has passed is about how they lived when they lived.
Everyone wants to know how they lived and how it may relate to how they died.

Working for life is not a chore.---It is life.
 
Am I satisfied?
Hell yeah I am. I get to play, use some fun tools, climb things, build stuff, get exercise, hang out with good people and get paid quite well. When I have had enough, I can retire on a pension and Social Security and make even more money than I do now.
Life is good.
 
I always think about the point made in the article, with all the computers doing the "work" a thousand or more times faster than a human being, why do so many households find it necessary to have two wage earners working full time? Weird. If technology is so great, we should have a two or three day work week.
 
Dibbons said:
I always think about the point made in the article, with all the computers doing the "work" a thousand or more times faster than a human being, why do so many households find it necessary to have two wage earners working full time? Weird. If technology is so great, we should have a two or three day work week.
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We were also supposed to be a paperless society by now, too.
 
I guess this meaningless job thing mostly applys to the whiny bunch that has actually never worked ! I know before I got hurt I worked 70-80 hours a week! I didn't get breaks no ac no computer if I didn't show up to work guess what production stops and the job is still there and now the big boss' are up your *** ! When you do real work for a living you don't need to worried about this crap!
 
J5 GTX said:
We were also supposed to be a paperless society by now, too.
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Paper less is still a ways off. My business thunb drive collapsed yesterday and dummy me did not do a backup. Its still all stored on paper.
Was told today them things are designed to only last 3 years and 3 years it is.
Oh the thrill of starting over.
 
mopar 3 B said:
Oh the thrill of starting over.
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you remind me of my first job out of college. I worked for this little manufacturing shop and I created an entire paperless Quality Control and returns system . The guy loved it.

And then he laid me off. Turns out he could never figure out how to get to work again, so the guy they put in charge after me ended up starting over again with paper. He lost two years worth of records because he couldn’t figure any of it out.
 
ws23jrt said:
For me, my "job" was a path of how to spend my life.
I picked one I thought would give me satisfaction for a days work as well as make it easy to wake up in the morning to get back to it.

Fast forward 50 years.---I have been blessed with great adventures in living life and meeting people through my work.

Question---for a young twenty-something sort.--If you did not need money how would you pave your path for the next 50 years?
What would you do to fill your days/weeks/years?

Some folks might insist that working for a living is cruel and unusual punishment for being alive.:realcrazy:

I see it as a glorious opportunity to live life fully. As we age we tend to reflect from time to time as friends and family die off.
The typical conversation for/about someone that has passed is about how they lived when they lived.
Everyone wants to know how they lived and how it may relate to how they died.
Working for life is not a chore.---It is life.
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Agreed and this is lost to entire generations anymore.
Those of us in "the trades" see it every day - there's a decided lack of young folks willing to learn a trade - or heck, to even put in
an honest days' effort for honest pay.
As Mike Rowe has made it his mission to try and improve the situation on, technical trades and so forth go lacking in our socialist
excuse for public education anymore.
Kids are told (INDOCTRINATED) from a young age that they will only matter if they get a college degree and fill some faceless, forgetful
desk position somewhere.
It's sad, really sad. Those not cut out for that are left by the wayside and the trades are left without the vital infusion of new blood.

"An honest man is the noblest of God's work" - and honest work is noble in and of itself.
 
Kern Dog said:
Am I satisfied?
Hell yeah I am. I get to play, use some fun tools, climb things, build stuff, get exercise, hang out with good people and get paid quite well. When I have had enough, I can retire on a pension and Social Security and make even more money than I do now.
Life is good.
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Union job, SSI program started by democrats and still fought for and protected by Democrats,to this very day, Something you (and a few others) need to be reminded of every now and then. No worries. Im glad to do it. Do you have a annuity through the union?
 
I wanted to learn a trade. Wanted that trade to enable me to generate the most money i could make. I didn't care really what i did, were i did it as long as it paid well and was secure. A mindset that worked for me for over 44 years. Your own choices to be made follow you through life.
 
HT413 said:
you remind me of my first job out of college. I worked for this little manufacturing shop and I created an entire paperless Quality Control and returns system . The guy loved it.

And then he laid me off. Turns out he could never figure out how to get to work again, so the guy they put in charge after me ended up starting over again with paper. He lost two years worth of records because he couldn’t figure any of it out.
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At least I taught my replacement how it worked. But left voluntarily. They had no idea how to make program updates.

Will be no problem in creation just time consuming and was preventable. Shame on me.
May even look at some systems for small businesses.
 
I have always looked at life like a hand of cards we are dealt. With life really being about choices, we choose how to play that hand of cards, it is up to each of us. Just my thoughts.
Bob :moparsmiley:
 
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