> This is a curious rule and it took me a long time to learn because in fact at the beginning of my practice I felt the opposite. Professionalism required that you didn’t particularly like the people that you worked for or at least maintained an arms length relationship to them, which meant that I never had lunch with a client or saw them socially. Then some years ago I realized that the opposite was true. I discovered that all the work I had done that was meaningful and significant came out of an affectionate relationship with a client. And I am not talking about professionalism; I am talking about affection. I am talking about a client and you sharing some common ground. That in fact your view of life is someway congruent with the client, otherwise it is a bitter and hopeless struggle.
From graphic designer Milton Glaser’s essay, Ten Things I Have Learned
This is really about me. I can't work with ppl who'll irritate me and I'll be distracted from work. I changed about 5 workplaces and and need to say that people play the main role, not the tasks. I now work with https://writinguniverse.com/free-essay-examples/information-... guys, and I must say, I liked them from the first communication. Their vibes match mine even if we work remotely. But I feel I'm a part of the team. As for me, it's very important.
My small work experience made me start to think that the problems in most jobs is that it fails to provide a few core needs and thus everything collapses. People stay there because rent implies regular checks but they hate everything and it becomes a shark pool. People will fight not to click on a mouse. This is all because of depressive work context. Doesn't take much to make people joyful and thus just motivated enough and bring fluid daily lives back.
Sounds weird that I can generalise like this but I've got 10+ years under the belt and I can say hand on heart that I've had maybe 3 "slightly difficult" clients in all this time. I've dipped out into the commercial world about once and almost instantly was bombarded with assholes, so retreated back into the place I know and love.
My figuring is this: the people who work for them aren't there to get rich - salaries are pretty crappy - they're there because they're fascinated in wonderful things and histories. So that endless bullshit drive to focus entirely on making vast sums of money is largely (not entirely!) removed. On the whole the sector is thoughtful, kind, considered. As a result (or because of!), it's a sector with excellent diversity, lots of working mums, lots of older people, lots of enthusiasm, lots of drive.
I'm never gunna get rich because museums aren't rich. But I do varied, fascinating work and the people I work with are almost always nice people. That to me is a huge thing and has positively affected my mental and working life.