Sometimes it is doing something nobody else can do
There is only one type of job. Doing something someone else doesn't want to do.
Submitted 3 months ago by Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
neidu2@feddit.nl 3 months ago
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 <first name of the one who used to hold that position>”. 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.
makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
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.
Willy@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
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?
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 3 months ago
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.
Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I’m OK with that, but at the same time I’d like to know what the cool jobs were.
paf0@lemmy.world 3 months ago
TBD
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
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.
Bougie_Birdie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
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.
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
Yeah, you don’t want to turn your hobby into a jobby.
Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 3 months ago
If I just agree can I move in with my life?
fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
No you must answer to the internet until we all fully agree in even the small details. Its a matter!
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
Hikermick@lemmy.world 3 months ago
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.
mechoman444@lemmy.world 3 months ago
This is categorically untrue. Jobs exist because one person can’t do all the jobs.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 3 months ago
1 person doesn’t want to clean toilets; but 50 other people are okay with it.
HauntedCupcake@lemmy.world 3 months ago
If all 50 people want to clean 1 toilet, 49 people are shit out of luck
mechoman444@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Perhaps but someone’s going to have to clean that toilet one way or the other.
The primary issue here is that there is a societal disparity between the toilet cleaner and let’s say a CEO or a doctor or something along those lines. But there shouldn’t be the doctor/ceo and toilet cleaner should get paid the same or there abouts in any case.
Cleaning a toilet should be just as important as heart surgery or running a multinational business.
Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 3 months ago
There isn’t one person tho.
mechoman444@lemmy.world 3 months ago
If you have the owner of the business he can only perform so many tasks at once therefore that person must hire other people to perform more tasks.
Wanting or not wanting has nothing to do with performing jobs.
If there are jobs that people don’t want to do therefore there must be jobs that people do want to do… What about those people? How do they fit in with your paradigm?
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
It doing something it isn’t practical for them to do
Steve@startrek.website 3 months ago
Doing something that requires more time than is available to one person.
Empricorn@feddit.nl 3 months ago
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!?
OhmsLawn@lemmy.world 3 months ago
If that were the case, there wouldn’t be an application and interview process.
There are often multiple candidates for a given position.
Willy@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Nah, some people need the money. It just happens to mainly come from jobs.
Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 3 months ago
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.
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 3 months ago
I think you’ve cracked the case. Good job. I’m being serious.
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 3 months ago
There’s also the job someone else is unable to do.
Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Ok, but I’m going to stretch some logic here. If they are unable to do, wouldn’t that mean they are unwilling to learn?
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 3 months ago
I am disabled. No amount of learning will enable me to cook my own meal. But I would sure like to do it.
FireRetardant@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Let me just quit my day job and learn the electrical code to install that new breaker panel I need. Gotta brush up on the gas fitting code too cause my furnace needs work. Then ill drive myself to the hospital where i will be my own nurse and my own surgeon.
The ability to learn is also linked with time, energy, and accessibility to resources.
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 3 months ago
wheelchair bound guy isn’t running power lines in your neighborhood. literally CANT.
elephantium@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Not everyone is capable of learning or figuring it out.
Think about childhood dream jobs like rock star or astronaut.
Rock star: You need musical talent and stage presence, enough to entertain lots of people with your music. Me, I can sing in the shower and play some simple tunes on an instrument, but I’d starve if I tried to make it as a simple busker.
Astronaut: NASA requires a master’s degree in a STEM field, at least 1000 hours as a jet pilot, and that you pass a physical. Not everyone is capable of earning a master’s degree. Not everyone will be capable of learning to fly planes. And the physical – ever heard of a blind astronaut? Or how about conditions where your bones are brittle? Hop on the rocket - SNAP! Oops, broken legs. Etc.
benni@lemmy.world 3 months ago
No, for all jobs there is only limited supply. If more people want the job than there are jobs available, some of the people who want the job must necessarily end up not getting the job.