Questions

[degringolade]

 

Now I have to think and make a decision.  I have actually got off my ass and applied for other jobs.  But at 03:00 last night I woke up to the idea that I am just two years away from leaving this place for good.  My desire to leave is bound up in the idea that I am doing more work that my peers and that my peers are lazy slugs.  These are true statements.

But the truth of the matter, when all is said and done, is that I still don't work all that hard.  I know the job well and I do good things.  I get paid every two weeks.  What the fuck am I looking to do?

I think that mostly, I am leaving because of a desire for some kind of respect and equality.  But that ain't gonna happen somewhere else either.

Comments

The future is so bright. . . I gotta wear shades.

[keithhuddleston]

I think your reasoning is sound. Just be thankful if you get out before the brain-scans become common practice.

At first, it will become the greatest thing in wage theft. People will only be paid something like 20% of the time they at work. Quickly, this will train those who remain and can hack it to stare at the screen and do a kind of frenetic work, even though it will in no way be the most effective (leave that kind of work-flow management to the philosopher-kings of middle management. . . how long before they are all micro-dosing LSD to help with their lateral thinking? . . Oh, brave new world, with such people in it). The real thing that can be scanned for is that the people at the front-lines are FOCUSED and it is something they DO NOT ENJOY.

And who am I kidding? Most of this will be automated away within the decade.