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There is only one type of job: Doing something someone else doesn't want to do. (lemmy.world)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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Edit: tell me this doesn't sound stupid

There is only two types of jobs:

Doing something someone else doesn't want to do

Or

Doing something a specific other person can't do

The only thing I can think of that someone other than myself can't do is piss my wife off to no end. Not really a job, tho.

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[–] makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml 19 points 4 months ago (3 children)

My workplace has heaps of cool jobs. No one person can do them all. So we have more people, doing cool jobs. The world is not all doom and gloom.

[–] Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm OK with that, but at the same time I'd like to know what the cool jobs were.

[–] DemBoSain@midwest.social 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Beer-cooler maintenance.

[–] Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

I could work on veer-coolers, I guess. Do I want to do it 40 hrs a wk, until the day I die? No. Do I want to do anything 40 hours a week till the day I die? Not really.

[–] Willy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

But really…. Do you, or annyone else, really want to be doing it? If you had the resources not to be and could do anything else like travel, spending time with loved ones, or even just sitting in your own filth, would you choose to do it?

[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 5 points 4 months ago

I've done that - frankly I'm not wired for 100% leisure/do what you want. Motivation slips away when there's no meaning behind doing something.

[–] sunzu@kbin.run -2 points 4 months ago

He is still drunk on that koolaid, it takes sometime to figure it out.