On Jan 13, 8:06 pm, Gene wrote:
On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 07:29:52 -0800 (PST), Frogwatch



wrote:
An old friend came through town and she is a computer type who does
main frame stuff. She was recently laid off from a very large
mainframe data base management company. She spent the entire time
discussing how much she disliked the company and how it was run. I
was shocked by this although I have friend who regularly talks about
how much he dislikes his state govt job. Our discussion really shook
me because it seemed so nightmarish to work for years at something you
dislike. This has me wondering, how many people work for an entity
they do not like? How many people dislike their work?
I have worked for people I disliked and have done jobs I disliked but
that was when I was much younger. I think that as you get older and
wiser you should figure out that you slowly are killing yourself if
you dislike your work. My friend lives for her days off which seems
very sad. You spend so much time at work the idea of not enjoying it
seems unimaginable.

I don't ever remember being told that I had any reasonable expectation
of actually enjoying a job. I was told about the dignity of work and
how one must work hard to get ahead...... etc.

In fact, I had a general manager once opine that "work" was an
activity that one would never otherwise engage in, unless sufficiently
compensated. Work, then, for him, was any job he could assign, no
matter how discomforting or distasteful to the employee and his/her
family, as long as he felt the employee was sufficiently compensated.

Lots of folks, over time, have worked their way up to a pay grade that
they could not leave without causing a major upheaval in their
family's existence.

For a LOT of folks..... reality, by necessity, sucks......
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I figured that most people by the time thye are in their early 50s
have found out that working at something they dont like will kill them.