Linkedin posts extolling the virtue of "grinding" and working all the time is a manifestation of the ethics of capitalist Stakhanovite-ism, which I totally detest.
It just promotes de facto wage theft, aka uncompensated or forced overtime.
It just promotes de facto wage theft, aka uncompensated or forced overtime.
I'm not anti-work. But it's not the early Industrial Revolution anymore.
The interests of Labor and Capital need to be balanced against each other, rather than be tilted to an absurd degree towards Capital.
The interests of Labor and Capital need to be balanced against each other, rather than be tilted to an absurd degree towards Capital.
There's no such thing as a "dream job".
At the flight school where I learned to fly, plenty of people and stories of people with every little boy's "dream job", aka being a US military pilot, being totally, utterly burned out with flying, and just wanting to rest.
At the flight school where I learned to fly, plenty of people and stories of people with every little boy's "dream job", aka being a US military pilot, being totally, utterly burned out with flying, and just wanting to rest.
And of course, airline pilots, who want to avoid the non-stop, stressful, career insecurity associated with the field.
If even military and airline pilots get burned out, there's honestly little hope for the rest of us with less "sexy" jobs.
Just go ask a medical resident.
If even military and airline pilots get burned out, there's honestly little hope for the rest of us with less "sexy" jobs.
Just go ask a medical resident.
You work to earn money, so you can do what *you* actually want to do, on your own time, without anyone telling you.
Jobs innately become respective and boring. Not only that, because you are working for compensation, you are subject to the totally random whims of your employer.
Jobs innately become respective and boring. Not only that, because you are working for compensation, you are subject to the totally random whims of your employer.
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