I don’t like my job, but I don’t hate it most days. I’m only there because I need the money and conditions are decent. I clock in, do my thing, clock out and try to enjoy my hobbies and eat decently.
I don’t believe most people would disagree with what I just wrote.
Mine is a blue collar job, physically demanding. The last 2 weeks have been working non stop from the beginning till clocking out, sometimes doing overtime that my employer pays, but not at a different rate. Yesterday I didn’t do my pause. Today I barely did it.
One younger coworker asked me if I enjoy doing my job and I asked him if he’s here as a volunteer. Obviously he is not, but he kept pestering me about me liking my job. I told him I like my hobbies and I’m here to work because I need money.
His is an office position btw, he sits way longer than I do.
By the look of his face you could tell this wasn’t an answer he was ready to accept. To me however, this younger coworker is naive (and stupid).
I plan to keep my conversations with this person to a minimum and not disclosing personal information around him, and I really hope he doesn’t talk to me anymore.
How would you deal with such a character?
Now I wonder if my answer can be used to fire me for ‘lacking motivation’, which is something any employer would write to justify firing somebody they don’t like.
This person is not a manager and is not a close friend of any manager afaik.
do you understand just how incredibly easy money is to get in a bull market/bubble? they print a literal infinite amount of the stuff, and the richest of our society gamble with it at digital casinos so they can watch lines go up instead of spending it in the real world.
if you learn the rules to that casino, you would never have to work another day in your life.
that is to say, there are only two types of jobs in this world…those you do for money, and those you do because you no longer need money. this “character” you speak off still believes they can find the latter…perhaps tell them, honestly, that…no, that job your working at now will not bring them any greater fulfillment.
if they are looking for fulfillment from their job they should look elsewhere as to not waste anymore time (the only real finite resource, on the time-scale of any singular human)