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Topic	What % of people do you think actually enjoy what they do for a living?
Zeus 07/11/21 6:25:58 PM #13:	I imagine a lot of people enjoy their work for at least part of the time, however even a dream job likely has some things people don't like (unless it's an unrealistic dream job >_>) I'd say probably 10-20% are doing something they love, another 20-40% are doing something they enjoy, 5-10% are miserable shits who won't be happy no matter what they do, and the rest are unhappy in their current job. And honestly, a lot of people who are unhappy in their current job don't really know what they'd want to do anyway. teddy241 posted... I always hear the old "If you dont love what you're doing you'll be stressed, burned-out, and then be flat out miserable". I've literally never heard anybody claim that, and I'm not sure anybody would believe that. Lots of people work average and boring jobs that don't stress them out (and how could they?) let alone make them miserable. streamofthesky posted... Working sucks, people do it b/c they have to. Sounds like those people need different jobs. streamofthesky posted... Republicans and feminists seem to think working is a privilege, that there's "dignity in work". But most of it is drudgery at best and physically taxing and soul crushing at worst that ends up shortening your lifespan by years. People who work tend to live longer. When you lose purpose and regular activity, it's just a fucking death spiral. And although there are terrible jobs, a lot of those are being lost to automation. Even shit like driving freight is eventually going to go away once self-driving technology improves. We're unlikely to be able to automate everything, but the worst jobs tend to be repetitive labor (although some people enjoy those) and those are the easiest to automate. streamofthesky posted... Hopefully the unemployment boost proved that once and for all. People will gladly not work if it's an option, or even take a pay cut to not work instead of work, as long as it's enough to survive on. If you train people to be lazy, they'll want to be lazy. But we knew that from when LBJ introduced his Not-So-Great Society and the welfare state, which is where America's real decline began. --- (\/)(\/)\|-\| There are precious few at ease / With moral ambiguities / So we act as though they don't exist. <cite>Zeus posted [p:955984383] in What % of ... [t:79559770]...</cite> <quote>I imagine a lot of people enjoy their work for at least part of the time, however even a dream job likely has some things people don't like (unless it's an unrealistic dream job >_>) I'd say probably 10-20% are doing something they love, another 20-40% are doing something they enjoy, 5-10% are miserable shits who won't be happy no matter what they do, and the rest are unhappy in their current job. And honestly, a lot of people who are unhappy in their current job don't really know what they'd want to do anyway. <quote>teddy241 posted... </cite>I always hear the old "If you dont love what you're doing you'll be stressed, burned-out, and then be flat out miserable".</quote> I've literally never heard anybody claim that, and I'm not sure anybody would believe that. Lots of people work average and boring jobs that don't stress them out (and how could they?) let alone make them miserable. streamofthesky posted... </cite> <quote>Working sucks, people do it b/c they have to.</quote> Sounds like those people need different jobs. streamofthesky posted... </cite> <quote>Republicans and feminists seem to think working is a privilege, that there's "dignity in work". But most of it is drudgery at best and physically taxing and soul crushing at worst that ends up shortening your lifespan by years.</quote> People who work tend to live longer. When you lose purpose and regular activity, it's just a fucking death spiral. And although there are terrible jobs, a lot of those are being lost to automation. Even shit like driving freight is eventually going to go away once self-driving technology improves. We're unlikely to be able to automate everything, but the worst jobs tend to be repetitive labor (although some people enjoy those) and those are the easiest to automate. streamofthesky posted... </cite> <quote>Hopefully the unemployment boost proved that once and for all. People will gladly not work if it's an option, or even take a pay cut to not work instead of work, as long as it's enough to survive on.</quote> If you train people to be lazy, they'll want to be lazy. But we knew that from when LBJ introduced his Not-So-Great Society and the welfare state, which is where America's real decline began. --- (\/)(\/)\|-\| There are precious few at ease / With moral ambiguities / So we act as though they don't exist. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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