Posted on 06/01/2021 7:02:34 PM PDT by MoochPooch
HELLO & thanks for stopping by this here comment section! I felt compelled to clarify that not having a "career" is not the same as not having a job -- I completely understand that the vast majority of people do not have the freedom or ability to survive without work under capitalism. It is precisely because we have to spend so much time working that I advocate for a shift in the way we conceptualize of our identities, self-worth, validation away from labor.
"To survive without work under capitalism." How about work under socialism, communism, etc.? Who does she think runs her electricity, water, garbage service, etc.? Thanks to the rest of us who punch a time clock each day, people like her can quit their "careers" and plant tomatoes somewhere or bike-ride through Tibet.
This is the millennial mentality I constantly encounter. Or perhaps she is part of that elitist demographic. Never had to work, because Mommy and/or Daddy is there to pay her bills.
While it's true that workaholism is unhealthy, work ethic certainly isn't. It involves some identification with one's job, not to mention responsibility. It involves bonding with family, raising children, honoring community values.
I probably should have put a "barf alert."
I no longer desire to have a career either, because the idea of using careers as points of leverage to force people into approved mindsets and actions.
I’m glad I’m old enough that I can see my time on earth as not being forever.
If I had to do all over again...
Or
What was I thinking when I got rid of that?
How many churn those thoughts around?
I sorta share the sentiments, but I’m tired of paying 40% taxes - I retired early
If the left would get out of the damn way automation would eventually make life a whole lot easier. In fact even at the current level of Government theft we are doing as well as we are thanks to the information revolution. Imagine how much better it would be without our overlords ‘caring’ about us so much.
Good call. I’m working remotely until I’m not anymore and then I am retiring myself
I tried well into my late 30’s to have a career in what I wanted to do, (Advertising Design) but it just wasn’t happening at any level that would sustain a decent standard of living. Either I wasn’t good enough, not lucky enough or not disciplined enough to keep it going.
I finally settled for some part time jobs just to pay the bills, and was able to find sufficent fulfillment in that way. Sometimes, one has to face the facts. Look at the trajectory of events over time, then make choices, before fate makes that selection for you.
Millennial-think, for sure.
Wait til the tail end Boomers retire over the next handful of years and disappear. They’ve been quietly working away, keeping infrastructure running smoothly, tolerating the HR and incapable new worker bullshit for years.
Then, we’ll see how things run...
The world owes them a living—it is their “human right”, ya know.
(What that means of course is that others are their slaves—since it is only masters that get slaves to do the work for them...)
I commend you for trying to find a career. I myself am more of a paraprofessional than a professional. I provide assistance, do basic chores, etc. I lack the discipline, focus, and (I’ll admit it) talent to really take anything to the higher level.
Nevertheless, I find satisfaction in my work. And, I am paying my bills, as well as giving charity to my community. We don’t have to seek identity or fill a void through work, but (unless we were born into privilege like the young lady in the video), we acknowledge the obligation.
There might have been a "golden era" in the 50's and 60's when goofing off as a kid was actually a way for children to discover new things and figure out what they really liked. Nowadays childhood is just kids planted in front of a computer screen either surfing porn or playing violent video games. I think it might be better for most kids nowadays if they were sent down into coal mines rather than allowed to rot away focused on porn, video games, and social media.
So if there is an alternative "tiger mom" childhood where some kids are learning to play the violin, learning to code, and working for a charity in order to get stuff to put on their resume, then that doesn't seem like such a bad thing.
As far as work goes, it seems like more companies don't require people to work long hours and weekends in order to stay employed. Maybe that is necessary to get promotions, but not needed to keep a job. A person who doesn't want to be tied to one company can then get enough experience to go on to being a private contractor doing the same thing for multiple companies.
If a person really wants to work to live rather than live to work, they should do the research to get a job that has fixed hours and generates enough income to provide for a family, hobbies, etc. even if that job is not particularly interesting. I imagine many government jobs would fit the bill.
YOu sound like a poster of Wisdom. It took me a few years to reach those same conclusions about identity. It took a long time.
Thanks!
Trust me, it took me a very long time to figure things out. (Often the hard way.)
‘”To survive without work under capitalism.” How about work under socialism, communism, etc.?’
Under socialism, the evil rich are forced to reveal the locations of the money trees they shook to get rich, and nobody ever has to work again.
Given under socialism having a succesful “career” outside of work officially assigned to you by the state is criminal behavior....
You dont have work outside of the work you do as tasked by government.
These people have no idea of how horrible living under socialism is. I have people in my family that lived under true, genuine socialist regimes. It truly is abut as anit-American, in terms of personal freedom and the greatness of the individual.
Socialists point to capitalism and see people who dont succeed and are poor and saylook how capitalism fails, see the inequality. They fail to understand for the most part, America lets a person be who they want to be. But you have to usually work for it. And it requires morethan a 30 second movie montage to achieve it.
We look at socialism and see that while everyone except the inner party elite is pretty much equal, that translates into pretty much equally poor and misreable. And of course they have black markets because the inner party people live more like middle to upper class Americans. So the elitist socialists who tout the superiority of socialism, live like oligarchs rather than regular working class socialist citizens in their racked and stacked decaying, old stalinkas and breshnevkas.
It will certainly be easier that way, because having a career, at least a successful one, implies saying and doing what you’re told and nowadays there are a lot of things I would have great difficulty saying and doing.
The younger people have a problem with authority.
These things become possibilities once the kids are up and in their own careers.
....”While it’s true that workaholism is unhealthy, ‘work ethic’ certainly isn’t. It involves some identification with one’s job, not to mention responsibility”......
Glad I was raised with a great work ethic.....and that was at ‘every’ position I worked throughout life. It’s great to leave for home knowing you gave it your best....equally so when you leave one job for a better one.
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