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You "ventured", as in made a conscience effort to obtain a field of employment to which you find appealing and rewarding.
Those who work crap jobs they hate, do so because they settle for such.
I took a huge financial risk to start a business and become self employed. I worked my ass off, sacrificed, and completely left my comfort zone in order to make it happen. Even went hungry at a point.
To be quite honest, after what I had to do to make a living, it upsets me when some are arrogant about their job title when they didn't start the business or do anything out of the ordinary to earn the position. Starting a business is one of the hardest things I've done and if you start at the bottom, you work for free a lot in the beginning and have to make huge financial sacrifices.
With that said, I support fair wages and a good work environment. I do believe we have "corporate culture" issues in this country and serious wage issues.
It's too bad, I think most any job can be enjoyable (it's less about the work, and more about the work environment - treated fairly, good pay, good coworkers, etc).
Unfortunately, it seems to be at the point where businesses for the most part are more interested in grinding a worker to the greatest extent possible - unless you have in demand skills, most workers are as easily replaced as a computer, and therefore businesses don't care.
Which is bad, I've read about how well Costco treats its employees, and the company is doing great - they believe that happy employees are more loyal and hard working - I tend to agree... And besides, it's just the right thing to do.
It's too bad, I think most any job can be enjoyable (it's less about the work, and more about the work environment - treated fairly, good pay, good coworkers, etc).
Unfortunately, it seems to be at the point where businesses for the most part are more interested in grinding a worker to the greatest extent possible - unless you have in demand skills, most workers are as easily replaced as a computer, and therefore businesses don't care.
Which is bad, I've read about how well Costco treats its employees, and the company is doing great - they believe that happy employees are more loyal and hard working - I tend to agree... And besides, it's just the right thing to do.
You've read correctly. I've known some of the workers at Costco. They're not complaining.
I think that being able to make decisions about work and being self regulated leads to more job satisfaction. Too many jobs today are subject to micro-management, and therefore...low satisfaction.
It's too bad, I think most any job can be enjoyable (it's less about the work, and more about the work environment - treated fairly, good pay, good coworkers, etc).
Unfortunately, it seems to be at the point where businesses for the most part are more interested in grinding a worker to the greatest extent possible - unless you have in demand skills, most workers are as easily replaced as a computer, and therefore businesses don't care.
Which is bad, I've read about how well Costco treats its employees, and the company is doing great - they believe that happy employees are more loyal and hard working - I tend to agree... And besides, it's just the right thing to do.
Great point.
What you described is the big shift I hope we're headed in. We've gotta do better business. It can't be ALL about the bottom line.
I pay my customers' share of the state sales tax. It comes out of MY pay. I do it because I wanted to provide quality affordable meals. I take pride in treating my customers great and looking after my help both financially and emotionally when I can. I treat them like family.
There's multiple things wrong with our business culture IMO.
I love my job. I work in IT, I love computers. I work with computers all day, come home, and play on computers. Pay me to play with computers all day? Sure!
I also have a great employer, great benefits, , great pay, vacation, holidays, sick time, short and long term disability, health, dental, vision, and life insurance, AND.... I get all the coffee I can drink!
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