i recently lost my job and it's horrible being in the 'unemployed' class -- you're made to feel worthless, you have to take advice from people, perfectly well meaning of course, that are basically encouragement on digging your own grave - i love being in the position where i have to do some fake elizabethian courting ritual where i have to pretend i'm super excited to do whatever tf they do, oh and i'm the best man for the job! -- when you've just sent in 200 applications and gotten nothing back, when you've just been let go for dubious bullshit reasons, you're supposed to act like you're ready for a challenge!
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Sure, but let's face it: Nobody is ever excited to carry out work for someone else. If you disagree, I have a lawn you can mow if you think that work is so exciting on it's own.
It's a management task to motivate employees to show up and spend a considerable amount of time of their life working to generate a profit for the company owner.
They can do so by compensating the employees reasonably and allowing them to have influence on how the work is done.
That's why managers are often more excited about their work. They get paid better and get to make more interesting decisions.
Minimum pay for being told what to do will result in minimum excitement and only doing the minimum effort. It's stupid to expect or have the audacity to demand anything more.
I might if I was at all interested in plants, gardening, keeping outdoors neat etc. Yes, not every job is exciting to do for someone else but there are many areas that people are excited and happy to work for...
My friends are tolerating going through hell in med school, awful residency pay because they want to help cure people. If they thought all work was equally unexciting then they could become some middle manager in the finance sector.
As someone who posts in !trains@lemmy.ml and !fuckcars@lemmy.world a fair bit wouldn't it make sense that carrying out work for someone where I help improve public transport in some way is exciting?
You're right. If you can find a work doing something that you find useful, then it makes perfect sense to do it. The difficult part is to find anyone willing to pay for it.
But at the end of the day you are still competing against someone who says they are happy to take the job
They can have it if want if they want those kind of jobs. Jobs do exist where bootlicking isn't an unpaid requirement.
People are different though. Some actually prefer that shit. Maybe they don't have anything else to offer or they have some kind of pleasing instinct or maybe it's just plain old masochism, I dunno. It's not for me and I still have plenty of jobs to choose from. I've left job interviews before because the "chemistry" wasn't right for me.
If you want a good job you’re going to have to feign at least a little excitement once.
I guess that's the difference between excited and doesn't give a shit, really. Ones a better liar.