There's also the job someone else is unable to do.
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doing something someone else can't do
Sometimes it is doing something nobody else can do
In my case, I get the impression that it's both.
Once during 2020 I got a phone call out of the blue from the technical manager. "Hey, would you like to be our new ?". Turns out my predecessor was looking for greener pastures.
When I told some coworkers about this, their reaction was "And you said yes??"
It's been four years now. Changed to a new employer last month, but I'm doing the exact same stuff, and I enjoy it.
Greener pa$ture$, I take it?
I think he wanted a different type of job. I, on the other hand, recently moved on to 30% greener pa$ture$, as the competition successfully poached me. Same type of job, exactly the same area of responsibility (networks and server clusters running in weird/hostile environments (no, not the Hamas installation under that hospital)), but with even more freedom and higher budget.
My workplace has heaps of cool jobs. No one person can do them all. So we have more people, doing cool jobs. The world is not all doom and gloom.
I'm OK with that, but at the same time I'd like to know what the cool jobs were.
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But really…. Do you, or annyone else, really want to be doing it? If you had the resources not to be and could do anything else like travel, spending time with loved ones, or even just sitting in your own filth, would you choose to do it?
I've done that - frankly I'm not wired for 100% leisure/do what you want. Motivation slips away when there's no meaning behind doing something.
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What if you’re a professional burglar? Then, you’re doing something other people don’t want to do themselves, nor do they want you to do it either. The society doesn’t need burglars, but some people do it anyway.
If you're a professional burglar, then you have bills to pay so you'll be taking on jobs for clients or a fence. Therefore, you're doing the job your client/fence doesn't want to do themselves.
Also, while society might not need burglars, it sure is good at creating them.
I think then the secret to happiness would be to remain an amateur burglar, motivated by your passion for crime.
Yeah, you don’t want to turn your hobby into a jobby.
If I just agree can I move on with my life?
No you must answer to the internet until we all fully agree in even the small details. Its a matter!
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Do the job that needs to be done. That is how a lot of businesses get started, keeping an eye out for a need to fill. I used to go to my job and avoid doing work but eventually the boss tracked me down and gives me the shit job nobody wants to do. As I've grown wiser I realized if I take the initiative I can pick the job I want and some other sap gets stuck with the shit job.
This is categorically untrue. Jobs exist because one person can't do all the jobs.
1 person doesn't want to clean toilets; but 50 other people are okay with it.
If all 50 people want to clean 1 toilet, 49 people are shit out of luck
They can just work together and use very small brushes. 🤷🏻♂️
You have truly made me look a fool 🥲
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It doing something it isn't practical for them to do
If you're not spending your employment trying to do what you want to do vs what your boss wants you to do... What are you even doing with your life!?
There is a big lesson in there folks...
Obviously, there a lot of limits on it but that's the right idea. The higher you go, the more freedom you can get.
But at the end of the day, it is the same shiti regime.
Doing something that requires more time than is available to one person.
I worked as an Outsource Manager at a couple of game companies (in addition to working for many years as a game artist). I outsourced mostly art asset creation, mostly to cheaper countries. It was kind of bittersweet, since it was clear to me and the artists at our studio that we were outsourcing really enjoyable work, work that our internal artists would rather have done than spend some of their time reviewing the cool art stuff these outsource artists created. But doing this allowed the studio to make a bigger, better game than our limited size team could do on their own.
So basically, I disagree with your premise. There are many sorts of jobs, for many reasons.
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If that were the case, there wouldn't be an application and interview process.
There are often multiple candidates for a given position.
Edit: I read this as "no one" rather than "someone."
I understand that someone on earth might not want any given job.
Nah, some people need the money. It just happens to mainly come from jobs.
It's not even about the task. I sure there is some one who would like to do the task but it's never just that simple. You can't just be an astronaut, you have to; goto school; be exceptional; etc.
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I think you've cracked the case. Good job. I'm being serious.
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