Posted on 07/16/2016 5:07:04 AM PDT by COBOL2Java
WASHINGTON — If what is posted on Twitter is a fair indication, people in Maryland and Virginia don’t much like their jobs.
Online jobs site Monster.com and social intelligence company Brandwatch studied a year’s worth of Twitter posts from across the country and analyzed posts specifically about jobs. The study puts both Maryland and Virginia in the top 10 for job haters.
It is the second year Monster and Brandwatch have conducted the study. It analyzed two million English-language tweets.
The top 10 states where people on Twitter hate their jobs at a higher ratio than loving their jobs are consistent with last year’s results, Monster said. All are exclusively in the eastern half of the U.S., and eight of last year’s 10 lowest-ranked states made showing again this year.
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“If what is posted on Twitter is a fair indication, people in Maryland and Virginia don’t much like their jobs.”
Fedgov workers endlessly complaining, even though they’re paid double, get Cadillac health care and retire early (very).
A job is something you probably stumbled into that allows you to do the things you want to do. If you wanted to do the job you’d never leave your work place. Given the dichotomy of things you want to do on the one hand, the other hand almost has to be things you don’t want to do.
Granted some jobs are worse than other jobs.
The article mentioned people (social dynamics) being a factor. I think traffic is too, which can make people very cranky.
Yup, that was my thought. Federal Government workers (or contractors).
Been there, done that. Not anymore though.
These are not primary factors in job satisfaction.
If you work in a large, rigid bureaucracy, whether in the government or a big corporation, life can be very unpleasant. Towards the end of my career, I spent my life filling out forms requesting other departments to do things, and then complaining when they didn’t do anything. And that was in the private sector!
Solution for the DC crowd who hate their jobs?
It is time to DownSize DC. Close entire Rogue/Unconstitutional Departments, including their SWAT Teams.
If 1/2 of what is done in DC ended tomorrow, no one outside of DC would notice or miss it.
And the rest of the nation would breath a little more of the fresh air of Freedom.
“If 1/2 of what is done in DC ended tomorrow, no one outside of DC would notice or miss it.”
I would say 75% could be eliminated and no one would notice.
“McDonalds is hiring.”
There isn’t anything in the DC region resembling what the rest of the country would call normal jobs. All jobs in the DC region are by contract and none of them last more than three or four years and the only real job in the federal government itself is COTAR. Add to that the grief involved in driving and commuting in the DC region and you have a formula for people hating their jobs.
I forgot to include that in my post. I work with the govies as a contractor. Some of them (not all) seem to be a generally unsatisfied bunch. Given the way the leviathan works, I can understand.
To be a govie, especially one with any degree of responsibility, is a thankless job. You’re damned if you do and damned if you don’t. The result? Stagnation.
Example: we have a computer system which consistently crashes every 2 weeks. As contractors, we’ve drawn up a detailed solution on how to fix it (basically, replace the old, worn-out physical server with a cloud-based system). We present it to the govie with the responsibility to make the decision, and he balks. “No, no, no; we need more time to study that change.” This has been going on for longer than I want to say.
Why the foot dragging? Because if something goes wrong, the finger will point to the govie, and he’ll take the heat (mercilessly) for the “screw up”. You see, they don’t look for solutions in your taxpayer-paid government; they look for blame. The result? Very little gets done.
People hate their jobs. Is this a new thing? I’m shocked!
Exactly what I was going to say. I’m part of the minority in Maryland who actually works in the private sector. I enjoy my job.
During the sequester nonsense, I was listening to a couple friends complaining because they were getting an extra day of every two weeks. (These are very productive scientists and engineers who work for DOD)
I told them that my sympathy level was zero and reminded them that I moved to Maryland because my job was sequestered permanently and my income went down to $0.00.
Welcome to the real world gentlemen. They quickly changed their tune
Well, yes and no. I’ve been a government contractor for almost 20 years, and have worked in more agencies than I’ve got fingers. I don’t mind working something for a few years and moving on, but then I’m in IT, and it’s good to leave and go to something new.
I’ve been a DBA, a developer, a technical writer, a test engineer, a system administrator, and an overall systems engineer. It’s very satisfying.
I see your point, but like I said, it depends.
Exactly. FedGov.
Very interesting. Thanks for posting.
Clever way to do this social research.
Interesting that all “hate my job” states are in the east and all “love my job” states are Western and Northern where people live outdoors much more and the state’s have far better mountains, scenery, open spaces, and less congestion. That probably strongly influences peoples’ outlook on life which carries into the job.
Maybe all the fedgov parasites in Virginia and Maryland hate their jobs and careers and that spills into surrounding states.
Good point. One contract I was on took me to Seattle for 3 months. I was there from June to August. It was wonderful; I loved the city while there, and the client was good to work with. It ended sooner than I would have liked, but then my job was to train the locals; ah well.
from what I hear, McDonalds is not doing that well either. Nor is WalMart.
Seattle area is truly spectacular, especially summer and fall. The Olympic Peninsula, the San Juan Islands, the Cascades, Mt. Rainier, Vancouver Island, Puget Sound, Victoria, and Vancouver BC. It’s hard to beat.
It has terrible traffic like many eastern cities, so that can’t be the sole reason easterners hate their jobs. I think it’s one’s overall outlook on life which I believe is rosier in the west. That has roots all the way back in the early 1800s. Look at the type of people who were willing to pack up and leave for the west back then — confident people who believed in the future and wanted new challenges. That carried over the decades and is still why the west attracts people.
I grew up in the east and moved to the west at age 21. Didn’t look back.
The sad thing is that liberalism is destroying the western ethic slowly but surely. It’s a different place than 40 years ago (though I do have to admit the brown air is gone and we see blue skies a lot more — kudos to emission controls!)
You’re right about Seattle traffic! Luckily, we had apartments down by Elliot Bay and worked in the “Beaver Building”, so we were able to walk to work. I got to stroll through Pike Place daily. :-)
We shared a car for shopping.
my husband was a contractor for 20 years and hated every day of it.
The whole Hillary email debacle makes him nuts. He says the fedgov does whatever it wants with very little repercussion.
The rules do not apply.
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