Or, as Sartre once famously put it "Hell is....other people!"
“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.
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.
People hate their jobs. Is this a new thing? I’m shocked!
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.
In “Office Space”, Jennifer Anniston said something like, “Most people hate their jobs. You’ve just got to go out there and find something that makes you happy.”
I see that Alaska is one of the “love their job” states.
I lived there for 20 years, and working was the most fun and rewarding part of my life there. I preferred being at work to being at home.
My take is that complainers complain and happy people enjoy life.
So any data like this is very suspect.
And of course using Tweater users to project numbers of the total population is completely wrong.
This is like the "truck kills 84 in France" headline. Twitter is not a sentient being anymore than the truck is.
Or, as Sartre once famously put it "Hell is....other people!"
Maryland is a place with the highest earnings in the country. Of course with higher earnings comes stress. I understand that completely. Maryland is a fast paced states. No place for the weak.
I think people hate the traffic more than their jobs. Having a 20 mile commute turn into a 2-hour daily nightmare takes it toll. I just drove past my exit for work on Saturday and it took me 15 minutes. During the week it’s 75 minutes, without an accident.