prototypian
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- May 6, 2024
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Actually that's not entirely true. A very very tiny group of people have jobs and work that is fulfilling and they love. Everyone else has a horrible job even id you delude yourself into believing it's exactly what you want and it's challenging. Most jobs are one of three types;
1) doing tasks to decrease risk to the business. This could be paper work or justifications or audit and reconciliation. The only purpose of your work is to ensure the business you work for minimizes risk for whatever potential problem could occur. It's what bureaucracy actually does and why it exists.
2) engaging with people to get them to buy goods or services. The second type of job is the one that transacts or begs and rationalizes someone buying something.
3) the third is the type that actually makes things or performs services. Companies like to automate these processes to the point that you are graded on the order of tasks and quality control on how many perform widgets are created.
Sure there are surgeons or librarians or other things but let's face it, everything becomes routine and nothing in the world gets to avoid the bureaucracy.
Odds are the work you do for a living, and in our world we must work to live, will be one of these jobs and even though you can delude yourself into thinking it's important, when you really step back all you did was fill out paperwork and complete forms or sell products you get no benefit from or assemble stuff that will be sold independent of your effort. Anyone can do what you do and the truth is you don't matter.
1) doing tasks to decrease risk to the business. This could be paper work or justifications or audit and reconciliation. The only purpose of your work is to ensure the business you work for minimizes risk for whatever potential problem could occur. It's what bureaucracy actually does and why it exists.
2) engaging with people to get them to buy goods or services. The second type of job is the one that transacts or begs and rationalizes someone buying something.
3) the third is the type that actually makes things or performs services. Companies like to automate these processes to the point that you are graded on the order of tasks and quality control on how many perform widgets are created.
Sure there are surgeons or librarians or other things but let's face it, everything becomes routine and nothing in the world gets to avoid the bureaucracy.
Odds are the work you do for a living, and in our world we must work to live, will be one of these jobs and even though you can delude yourself into thinking it's important, when you really step back all you did was fill out paperwork and complete forms or sell products you get no benefit from or assemble stuff that will be sold independent of your effort. Anyone can do what you do and the truth is you don't matter.