Sometimes is far from always, most people are not too excited about their job but they still wake up every morning to work. Most of them don't do extraordinary things, they do mundane and boring things which must be done to sustain the human race. They definitely do it for the money and no other reason. The few who make their hobby their main pursuit are few and far between and many time this hobby turns into their job.
Not everyone works for money. In fact most people I personally know (no, I'm not sure that's a good representation) don't. What is quite common though among large groups of people is that they get extremely bored and lonely without their jobs. It is frightening to talk with people and find out that they would have nothing at all to do if they would not have their jobs; their hobbies (if they have them) don't give them enough satisfaction to do them longer than a few hours a week.
I don't have to work but I find myself working more as I enjoy it even though I have hobbies to keep me busy.
That’s totally backwards. Most people do their jobs because it pays the bills. Most people don’t have careers, with some glorious internal narrative in which they’re the protagonist. They have jobs. If they’re lucky or good spirited, they’ll find satisfaction or even enjoyment in their work. But they work because it gives them the means to get what they need and do at least some of what they really want to do.
People have different interests. Some slack off only when the job is boring / uninteresting, some might genuinely prefer to spend their time doing other things and working only to have enough money for that. Work to live, not live to work.
When that money is used to fund something you love to do outside of work, it can be an extremely good motivator. Not everyone requires that their job be the most fulfilling aspect of their life. Plenty of people live for a hobby, a local sports team, travel, raising their children, etc.
Everyone wants to be the exception, no one wants to deal with reality. Especially in the age of social media where we can watch the exceptions enjoying their life all day long. And the few moments where it might show that they aren’t, you don’t even see those. We even try to mimick what we see by broadcasting our own lives into the ether in the hopes that somone sees it and tells us how great we are.
The reality for most people is they will not have a fulfilling or meaningful career. Most people do mostly worthless work for a paycheck they can enjoy elsewhere. This is oddly MORE true in tech than in many other jobs like trade. If you’re a plumber and you fix a pipe at least you know somone used it. You can spend decades in tech working on things that go nowhere, never get released or idle and then collapse and make good money doing it.
But that’s the system we have. You are paid whatever you can convince society that it owes you and the correlation to your actual contribution is increasingly more and more loose.
I think for the vast majority of Americans their passion is simply making money. Some are better at it than others.
He got paid a lot to do something he was presumably passionate about and enjoyed. It also might surprise you to find out that there's quite a lot of people that just work as a means to an end, and find value and enjoyment primarily from other parts of their life.
Your experience may be different, but I know surprisingly many such people in my circles. Usually engineers, doctors and other white-collar workers, who got to the point where their job is more satisfying than stressful. They don't do it for the money, but to socialize and to have a purpose in life.
yeah thats what i mean, people will do boring work if they feel the other rewards of life make it worthwhile. right now in an uncertain lonely period one questions whether the juice is worth the squeeze
This kind of arguments is at risk of being condescending. It is perfectly respectable to spend you day working on boring tasks just to get a pay check. In fact a lot of more desirable jobs have large amounts of drudge, admin, and pointless meetings. That is a consequence of doing activities in a group for something greater than your own vanity. Hobbies remain fun because they are less consequential; you can afford a little indulgence. Making things for other people creates risk; which is mitigated with boring repetitive procedures.
Most people do not care about their jobs. And they have jobs, not careers. They work because they get paid. Occasionally they get a brief flicker of satisfaction. More often they enjoy the company of their co-workers. Occasionally they hate their jobs so much that they engage in unhealthy behaviors s as a coping mechanism, like alcoholism, or they quit.
Basically everyone who doesn’t stay heavily involved in their professional field after retirement was doing it almost solely for money. There are better and worse jobs, more and less enjoyable ones. But a huge majority of people have jobs, not careers.
Sure. But there are also plenty of very necessary jobs which are not permanently engaging.
Airline pilots tend to do love aviating, but spend most of their flight standing by in case the autopilot goes awry. Most medical doctors don't have a massive catastrophe happening around them all of the time. Artisan bakers still have to knead dough.
All in all, most work generally is boring rather than fulfilling.
Not everyone wants to be human for ever, some people take joy in their work and want to continue doing it and contributing in a meaningful way, etc, etc. Nothing to do with being a workaholic or the rest.
I hate to say it, but 'leisure' gets boring awfully quickly.
You have to be very clear and ready to tell people that they have to give that up if they want to survive.
Because in the end that's what people want. A normal life.
Not everyone is passionate. Or driven, or interested in those things that can pay well.
Which means that those hours must be stolen from a whole constellation of distractions (which get better at keeping you engaged) and interactions with other people.
So people have to be made aware that they are going to be more unhappy not doing the work, than if they did do it.
nobody (should?) looks for satisfaction at work. that's the marketing human resources and PR feed you so you spend more time at work.
work is a means to sustenance. you help someone make a lot of money (either exploring space or showing ads in a plagiarized fart app) for a paycheck and then you use that money to sponsor your life style.
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