A future-of-work expert said Gen Zers didn’t have the “promise of stability” at work, so they’re putting their personal lives and well-being first.
A future-of-work expert said Gen Zers didn’t have the “promise of stability” at work, so they’re putting their personal lives and well-being first.
No one has ever wanted to work.
This is a hot take. People have definitely wanted to work. The problem is now we don’t need to. There was a point that humans needed to work or we would not evolve as a species. There are many that took pride in being a part of that. Now that need has shifted into we could feasibly feed and shelter every soul on the planet and a few greedy fucks don’t know how to coordinate it with all their riches.
I don’t think they have. I think they were made to labor under the whip or under a promise for something. You’re like that other guy thinking the guy cracking the whip or promoting the latest video game are “working”.
The freedom to pursue ones interests isn’t work.
Depends what you mean by work. People always want to do things and create things and help others. They don’t want to spend 8 hours a day doing menial, meaningless crap just to be able live.
My point is that they did. Back when there was a sense of accomplishment that added to the human existence. There was a sense of pride to a lot of workers in the 50s for many reasons. I do agree that it has changed. And a lot of it has to do with the rewards given. But they still exist.
Soft disagree. I want to do meaningful work and interesting work. It’s boring bullshit getting 10 managers to approve a change when none of them know what I even do. I love working on my projects in my garage, or in my kitchen on baking something.
Wow what a sweeping statement with no legs to stand on.
I love work. I worked (yes) quite hard to get a degree and become a developer and ML engineer. One day, I’d like to work in computational neuroscience. I hate so many things about work culture, but the work itself? Naaah, it’s awesome. I’d rather spend every day in this life working on something I love and have interested in, instead of going around making sweeping statements about the entire globe on the internet, incapable of accepting that not everyone is like me.
snek’s statement still stands. They announced they love work. It negates the prior statement. Why downvote then?
I thought this was Work Reform, not Anti Work 😭 my mistake
I feel the same way.
Modern “work” does not involve doing something you’re passionate about or interested in for the vast majority of people…
Cheating. Changed the definition of the word “work”
Yep so not “all” of them.
Check out the term “hyperbole”
Cheating. This is akin to saying, “I was just kidding!”
Cheating? This isn’t a game, it’s a conversation
Oh my oh my sorry for taking people in the internet at face value. Next time I’ll just guess what their thought process was and live my life based on that.
Thanks but apology declined
Here’s another one: I’m so sorry your life must really suck with work and all to the point that you can’t see other people enjoying it and where you feel the need to say they aren’t really “working” just because they found something they love and succeeded in navigating the shitty system (out or merit or luck or privilege, whatever) and you didn’t /:
We can all be on the same side. I hate modern work culture and I actively try to improve it and myself day after day. I’m sure you do too.
Could you accept that one too?
Cheers bud.
No. Also, I like my job
Lol, good try at turning snek’s argument against him, but that was clearly sarcasm.
owen is the reason /s was invented.
Burh. As if I would say “apology declined” in earnest
Whatever you do isn’t work, buddy and you knew that before replying.
It literally Is work, and you knew that before replying /: see we can both say shit like that.
You need it to be defined as work.
If you live in more ancient times, do you want to be a slave?