Jobs are legit pimping

[Drdeee]

I see pattern imerge.

People who love their jobs, are compfortable with their circumstances. People like myself who only use their jobs for money, are not compfortable with theiir circumstances. This explains a lot.


Geez, thanks guys, this thread helped me understand that I don't care about my work, and only come to it for money. Why I don't care? I used to care at first, but then office politics kicked in, and I saw how I'm treated, so now I don't care. I stopped liking the company I work for. The problems are mundane, and the'll exists in every other work place. Maybe it's because I'm an aquarious or was born in the year of the **** that I require freedom. I don't get freedom at work.

 

[Noodles]

Let me chew it even further. Let's say your boss is paying you $10,000 a month. That means your presence must make him more money. So all you have to do is exploit your own abilities and be your own boss, that way you make more money.

I think you've massively missed the point here. If you're boss is paying you $10k a month, that means he has to have the $10k to pay you that money, and you by definition need that money so you work for it.

The question should be how did your boss get that money? How did he own he's own business? More likely than not he worked hard for a long time and risked a lot of capital. The reward for that is the ability to earn more now. I'm not sure I agree with the 'less work' argument either. It may appear to you he does less work, but that could be because he does more strategic than deliverable work. Ultimately though it's his arse on the line. If his company goes bust, he loses everything.

If you wanted to be your own boss you should pull your finger out or enjoy the fact you get to work and earn a good living without the responsibility of keeping everything running.

But ultimately you're all thinking way way too small. I've worked for a major investment bank for almost 3 years now. I've been promoted once in that time. I am what you'd call 'middle management'. I earn, what most people would consider, a very nice living. The flip side of that is that I'm expected to make a certain amount of money for the company. I'm expected to be on call at certain times and to ensure our market exposure is under a certain threshold - otherwise we stand to be ill placed for market fluctuations. My boss may appear to do less work than me...but that's because he run's three other teams, as well as mine. He has to be responsible for all those team. He has to plan the things we deliver and coordinate strategy...otherwise we could end up working against each other. You could argue he doesn't make the company money...but without his work it'd just be a mess. And up the chain it goes. But no one person owns my company...it's owned by shareholders, like all public companies.