Show me your palm and I will tell you whether you have a real job.
Schlagwort-Archiv: Arbeit
Generation Praktikum.
It was considered a good thing that there might be a few years in a young man’s or woman’s life where money was not the primary motivation; where he or she could thus be free to pursue other forms of value: say, philosophy, poetry, athletics, sexual experimentation, altered states of consciousness, politics, or the history of Western art. Nowadays it is considered important they should work.
Jobullshitology.
I have found it most useful to break down the types of bullshit job into five categories. I will call these: flunkies, goons, duct tapers, box tickers, and taskmasters.
Care or Cash.
For instance: in our society, there seems to be a general rule that, the more obviously one’s work benefits other people, the less one is likely to be paid for it.
Fakeconomy.
But if it’s a purely abstract competition set up between insiders to the exclusion of outsiders, it might feel like a competition, it might feel very challenging and stressful and hard to the people doing it, but it doesn’t actually do anything for anybody else. It’s no longer genuinely productive for anybody, it’s a fake.
Makenager Problem.
When you're operating on the maker's schedule, meetings are a disaster.
Futurente.
Didn’t even know what a pension was until the employee benefits counselor clued me in, and it nearly blew the top of my skull off.