A life worth living is one with purpose, direction, participation and fulfillment. guess you shoulda got a degree in a field that has purpose, direction, REQUIRES participation and yields fulfillment then shouldn't ya... feh
Posted on 08/13/2018 5:58:23 AM PDT by vannrox
You know, many of us work for a living. As such, if you have a university degree, the chances are that you migrated to a corporate job in a corporate environment. You probably received a decent salary, a nice (if bland and sterile) working environment, and considered yourself well on the way towards corporate greatness in a solid career.
It’s a nice fantasy. It’s all a big lie.
Most Americans waste their lives working in this environment. They get up and go to work. They deal with traffic, an uncaring boss, and suffer through the various rules that HR implements. They endure mindless and mind-numbing meetings, answer a pile of round-and-round email trains, and fill out form after form.
That’s not a life worth living.
A life worth living is one with purpose, direction, participation and fulfillment. Within the now-popular “corporate model” we have the worst elements of 1920’s-style progressive social-engineering intermixed with 1980’s-austerity. It is a most horrible mixture. Couple that with modern surveillance technology, unified HR standards, and the sterile ideal, you have a nightmare on your hands.
Here are some thoughts on corporate life, particularly American corporate life, now that I moved on elsewhere. These thoughts are just general ramblings, and the reader should not get too offended by them. We are all different.
Those of you who own your own companies and who set them up can ignore this post. This is not written for you. This is written precisely for the people who have to work in the “corporate” environment. One that often springs up out of the model you created.
(Excerpt) Read more at metallicman.com ...
Much whining with little or no insight.
Bkmk
Truth here...
“The more efficient you are at your work, the more you will be burdened with it. You work hard, your supervisor will give you more to do. When someone sees you taking a break, they will give you more work to fill in the “gap” in workload.”
Work flows to the competent. Don’t be extremely competent with work you don’t really like. You’ll never escape.
Never confuse motion with action....
If corporate bureaucracy is stifling and oppressive, GOVERNMENT bureaucracy from social work to socialized medicine is infinitely worse.
You can change jobs within companies and work for another company. Competition between businesses limits how big and oppressive HR’s social engineering can be. When there is only government, it has no limits barring what people try to place on it.
A life worth living is one with purpose, direction, participation and fulfillment. guess you shoulda got a degree in a field that has purpose, direction, REQUIRES participation and yields fulfillment then shouldn't ya... feh
When I was young I was advised to never leave my cube without papers in my hand so as to look busy, and to always come off as slightly irritated, but definitely not abundantly happy.
Years later I saw that this was the gist of a Seinfeld episode.
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