It's worth pointing out that feeling like you work in a pointless, meaningless job doesn't necessarily make it true. This paper is solely about people's perceptions, not facts.
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yes but ultimately perception is reality.
I'm going to have to disagree with you on this.
People have all sorts of beliefs that can qualitatively be proven as right or wrong. For example, all the wingnuts who believe that the COVID vaccine has trackers from Microsoft. Their beliefs are 100% bereft of reality.
Now, can they go ahead and act on those mistaken beliefs? Sure. But that doesn't make their beliefs correct in any way.
You're right of course, but we are talking about two different things.
Oh no, it's a philosopher. /s
Had the bolsheviks ensconced themselves within the flames of Jesus H Christ they would still be here today. It was right in front of them, but alas they were too short sighted to understand the power of emotion.
I've sort of just accepted it. I work in a niche position in a software company that's in a niche sector and while people do depend on me for their livelyhoods, I wouldn't say the products I produce are, in the grand scheme of things, meaningful. What I do only exists as a job in the 20th and 21st centuries and humans got on just fine before that.
I instead find meaning in my hobbies and out of work activities. My job, while pretty meaningless in my mind, does pay me enough to allow me to have a good life outside of work. I don't need my job to be meaningful, I just need it to not suck.
Same here
What I do only exists as a job in the 20th and 21st centuries and humans got on just fine before that.
And your job is probably severely threatened by AI just like every other job out there. Hopefully humans will get on just fine after that, too.
Lol, this is why people need hobbies and community involvement. And why they need time off to do those hobbies and other activities.
I moved out of finance into non profit but still doing tech. Every day I try to find "purpose" in my work but a tech job is a tech job. The income is the only reason I can't jump ship out of BS and into something that I find meaningful.
Sometimes donating to the causes you care about does more good than working in the industry itself. A friend of mine who is really into dancing came to that conclusion.
Lol, this is why I left comp engineering to work in a nature preserve
I would LOVE to go back to the tree farm or become a park ranger or something. It just doesn't pay the bills that my cloud engineering does.
Yeah! Hey in this economy, I regret it at times! In the world we live in, there are always trade-offs. No shame in whatever path you take, as long as you don't vote Republican!
No shame in whatever path you take, as long as you don’t vote Republican!
Oh you don't have to worry about that!
very happy i landed a job doing web work for mostly non profit clients. a few lawyers here and there, but we need them, too.
most non profits are just fronts for scams. they always say non-profit, but the profits are taken by the greedy backers. sorry to bust ur dream.
i’ve had the chance to see their work, and they’re bringing good into the world. i care less about where the money is going and more about the net positive for the folks who otherwise wouldn’t have it without the “greedy backers.”
That's a gross over-simplification. I'd wager that you're correct that the majority are scammy in nature since it's so simple to create a nonprofit. But, there are thousands of important nonprofits out there doing good work. In my experience, the people that choose to mostly work with nonprofits are working with important organizations doing good work. That's anecdotal, but it just seems pointlessly dismissive to lump nonprofits together as bad simply because they're nonprofits.
Why not assume that this person's job does some very basic due diligence to confirm they're working with an authentic organization that's doing good, rather than trying to "bust ur dream".