I don't understand leaving a safe secure job for something unknown. How you use your time is your choice. But you would leave a perfectly good paying job? From what I hear finding a decent place to work is very hard these days.
> a job that paid relatively well but offered no... accomplishment.
Welcome to most jobs, ever, in every historical period and culture, ever since humans have had jobs distinct from whatever else they did with their lives.
Progress seems to consist of reducing the number of those kinds of jobs and, eventually, finding other things to do for the people who aren't suited to anything else.
Re:Forgotten Employee (2002)
by 9h1d9j809s on Tuesday July 23, 2013 @01:32AM
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> Welcome to most jobs, ever, in every historical period and culture, ever since humans have had jobs distinct from whatever else they did with their lives.
Many jobs were probably quite fulfilling. A cobbler, for example, who produced a pair of shoes before this task could be automated or split Taylor-style.
Re:Forgotten Employee (2002)
by niels_olson on Tuesday July 23, 2013 @12:57AM
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any job that can be replaced by a computer or robot, will be. Be the one who makes that happen, or be the one it happens to.
There is a third option: be the one who makes sure the second group is still happy afterward.
Smartphones, ipads, web and apps for everyone!
Consume minglings!
Re:Forgotten Employee (2002)
by niels_olson on Sunday July 28, 2013 @06:54PM
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> minglings
please define
I remember wondering then just how long I'd be able to take a job that paid relatively well but offered no... accomplishment.
Well fortunately for me, that opportunity came a few years later while working for one of the large banks! The answer to my earlier question was six months; I had worked a few years through various positions into operations, only to fall into a role with little managerial oversight and no responsibility, it got boring so fast...