Love the work, hate the job?
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Your new house should have LEDs so hopefully you're good for a while. I do have a light bulb extension pole thing that I've only had to use once. It's pretty cool... would be more fun to attach a bulb to a drone and pull an Interstellar spinning docking thing.
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@Aqua-Letifer said in Love the work, hate the job?:
@Doctor-Phibes said in Love the work, hate the job?:
Are all jobs like this now? It feels like the tech that was supposed to help us is slowly stifling all the joy.
First of all, sorry this is going on in your neck of the woods. It's tough to be in the middle; not at the start of a career, not right at the end. (But hey, I'm in the same boat, hooray!)
I had a decent job around 2008 or so. Then weird shit started happening. I had a meeting with my designer, and her desk was cleared out. A couple weeks later I had to speak to my marketing person and the same thing happened. Huh. Okay, well, I was thinking about getting a Master's anyway; suppose I might as well get on that. I helped my employers hire my replacement, who along with the rest of the company was laid off after a merger 4 months later.
Awhile later, I worked in a small town that was completely propped up by the industry I moved to work for. My co-workers started out their lives in the day care across the street that was run by the business. The sports teams and pretty much the leagues were funded by them, too.
Our office was on the third floor. One particular morning, I was taking the stairs—I always took the stairs, it had a far better view than the elevators—and there was no second floor. 150 people lost their jobs overnight. Today, the company no longer exists. Some of my former co-workers started making the 2.5-hour commute into the city where their new corporate overlords were located.
Every day in which I'm employed is a day in which I'm amazed. That being said, I'm neck deep with problems related to AI. But I use it frequently in a shitload of capacities. I know exactly what its capabilities are and are not. Not my job, or even my career, but the very concept of what I know how to do is under threat. Not really by the technology, but by what people ignorant of the technology think it's able to do. They honestly think a $15 a month subscription makes them gods. It's perverse.
This is just a natural progression of the path we've been on since I've been alive, maybe since ever. It's like what George Carlin said about cocaine. At first it's all pleasure with no pain; over time, it switches on you.
As an example, when the iPod first came out, it seemed extraordinary. “1,000 songs in my pocket? Hell yes, sign me up!” What the commercials didn’t say was that my friends and I would stop swapping albums like we did with tapes and CDs. That I would I stop going to music stores. That Spotify would go to work putting those stores out of business. That it would then start leveraging AI against musicians to put them out of business, too. That my friends would no longer see the point in seeing each other in person because we have Facebook now. That the rare times we do see each other, we don't go to shows anymore, and they're either on their phones or instead of telling me a funny story, act exasperated that I didn't see their reel made of said story.
In my opinion, in both our work and personal lives, technology has brought us to peak choice and convenience. We have too much of it now. We're addicted, but it's no longer doing us any favors.
Good post man. It's almost like the ability to unplug, or go analog, or just slow down and sit without looking at a screen...watch raindrops race on a window. All of it seems to be almost like a new workout routine, but mentally. It's hard. It take discipline now to just sit, and wait, or do something the long way.
@89th said in Love the work, hate the job?:
Good post man. It's almost like the ability to unplug, or go analog, or just slow down and sit without looking at a screen...watch raindrops race on a window. All of it seems to be almost like a new workout routine, but mentally. It's hard. It take discipline now to just sit, and wait, or do something the long way.
Honestly, I do everything I can to stack the deck in my favor. I keep my phone plugged in at all times and when I'm in my car, I turn it off to make it a pain in the ass to use.
Please love yourself.
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Reminds me of a (light) argument I had with my wife a few years ago. I was going out for a run, she asked where my phone was? I said I don't take it. She asked but what if I get hurt? I said, I ran for years before cell phones were that common, I think it'll be ok.
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@89th said in Love the work, hate the job?:
Good post man. It's almost like the ability to unplug, or go analog, or just slow down and sit without looking at a screen...watch raindrops race on a window. All of it seems to be almost like a new workout routine, but mentally. It's hard. It take discipline now to just sit, and wait, or do something the long way.
Honestly, I do everything I can to stack the deck in my favor. I keep my phone plugged in at all times and when I'm in my car, I turn it off to make it a pain in the ass to use.
@Aqua-Letifer said in Love the work, hate the job?:
I keep my phone plugged in at all times and when I'm in my car, I turn it off to make it a pain in the ass to use.
Pretty much the only thing I like about my phone is the fact that I can listen to podcasts and music when I'm driving.
