Why people hate their jobs

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-01 16:51

James Altucher is an investor, entrepreneur (created several successful companies, runs a hedge fund) and a well-known blogger. On the Runet, many have read his articles on business and startups. One of them was published on Lifehacker. Under the cut you will find new material from James about "working for an uncle" and classic labor relations.

… I said "sorry" and limped away from the meeting. I went down from the 67th floor and went to the central station. After limping home, I never returned to this job.

I didn't return phone calls or emails for the next month. "James, where have you gone?"

Perhaps the plaque with my name is still on the door of the office, and my name is listed on the website. Didn't check.

I just don't want to go back and ever communicate with them again.

A few days ago, I discussed with the managing partner that I would like to receive a reward if I close a big deal. He smiled and said, "Trust me James, I'll take care of everything."

When they tell me "trust me" or "I'll make you rich," then I know where this bullshit will lead.

Another moment scared me. I was walking with my colleagues to eat a hamburger at a Wall Street eatery when I fell down. Without any reasons. I just fell and limped for the next three weeks.

My body seemed to tell me: "Quit this job!" I try to listen to my body. Otherwise, I cannot sleep or walk normally. In this case, my legs refused to carry me.

Whenever all is well, I start to worry that something might go wrong. And whenever things go wrong, it seems to me that it won't get better. This is not depression. This is the law of the human brain, developed over thousands of years of survival in a predatory world.

Every day I try to turn it around. I succeed due to the fact that I listen to my body and mind, express, communicate with positive people, sleep a lot, etc.

But working under the control of "big bosses" who know how to do it destroys my world order.

A recent study stated: for the first time found that 50% of people hate their job.

First? I doubt.

I was once asked on Quora why people hate their jobs. And I replied that not everyone hates their job. There are full-time employees who decide for themselves what, when and how to do, and they love their job. (In Russian there is no analogue of the word entreployee: entrepreneur (entrepreneur) + employee (hired worker) = entreployee - translator's note.)

But for the remaining 98% of the working-age population:

1. Work is modern slavery. You get paid enough to survive, but not a dime more. Ask for more and you will be punished.
2. You are often abused at work, and you put up with it because it is considered normal when bosses or customers are yelling at you.
3. The government "takes" up to 50% of your earnings, and 10-20% of it goes to the defense industry, that is, to kill people in other parts of the planet, including children.
4. We are mistaken to think that colleagues are friends. After all, with "friends" at work, we discuss ballpoint pens, office offices and boobs in public. We stop being friends for real.
5. Sooner or later, you will run into a "" career. It doesn't matter if you are female, gay or black, you can't jump over the heads of the big bosses, even if they are idiots.
6. From seven in the morning to seven in the evening you will: a) go to work, b) work, c) go from work. Thus, the most creative watch youspend within the walls of your office and turn into trash.
7. You don't eat well at work. Worse yet, share latrines with co-workers and management.
8. Your paranoia of being discussed all the time at work is true. They are ready to betray at any moment, stabbing a knife in the back.
9. Do you understand that moneythat you spent on education to get this position were thrown into the wind … You are deceived, but you cannot show the next generations how stupid you were, so you become part of this deception.
10. A trillion dollar marketing campaign forced you to take out a mortgage on your home. AND you will lose a home that you don't even own yet, if you do not hunchback on the "big bosses". The American Dream was coined by the company 40 years ago to set up the mortgage yoke.
11. Your wife is tired of hearing about your work after six months of living together. You don't care about each other anymore … After 10 years, you will wake up next to a stranger, and after 40, you will die next to her.
12. Pension contributions will not provide you with a comfortable old age. The goal of the pension system is to collect money from you every month and, like a bait, to keep it within the walls of offices. 90% of your retirement savings will be eaten away by inflation.
13. When you were a child, you loved to draw, read, run, you laughed, played, the world seemed magical to you. Nothing like this happens to you anymore.
14. Someday you will be fired, replaced by a younger employee who is ready to work like a robot and for less money. You know this but afraid to do something.
15. Looking at the homeless, you think: "Everything is God's will."

Disheartened? Not worth it. Again, not everyone hates their job. There are many ways to be self-employed, act like an entrepreneur (be an entreployee) and love your day to day work. To be clear, there are more opportunities now than ever. But you must prepare your body, mind and soul to find them.

Take this magic pill and wipe the tears on your work-soiled faces. Come to me, kids, let me hug you.