It's really depressing that we've got to this point where essentially people have decided that you can't fight the system and you may as well try to abuse it for your own ends rather than ending the abuse.
I like the idea of the wave of nihilism that goes "well, we were told to bring our whole selves to work, and this was family. If this is family, it ain't working, so we might as well be here for free Thanksgiving dinner."
Shitty metaphor, but I think I'm onboard with the idea of "company loyalty is a relic"; the "other half" of that being "I might as well work as much as possible" feels very... soul death.
It's true that there is no longer a craft to work. "Knowledge Work" is sort of inherently meaningless by virtue of its ephemerality. In the 00s people tried to address this by creating a "Maker" culture of people who had regular jobs but then also got deeply into some sort of artisanal craft, however obscure. Noble goal but it ultimately failed unfortunately. Most people simply don't have the creativity in them to do such a thing.
Man, this stuff bums me out. Only half way through the episode but this phenomenon of overworking is a symptom of what so many people are feeling in the remote era. Disposable, invisible.
Kat you mentioned that there is no longer a craft to working. I totally agree. I am a career changer into software engineering, and you can just feel the craft being sucked out of it. There are no mentors, things get built, and then they break because everyone has moved on to their new gig, then you fix the feature and realize that no customers are using it because your company is in the shitter.... Around we go. Very easy to just check out.
I feel the pull back to working IRL in my soul. I don’t think the world will come back to it any time soon, but I will be relieved when that other shoe drops and companies start investing in it again.
It's really depressing that we've got to this point where essentially people have decided that you can't fight the system and you may as well try to abuse it for your own ends rather than ending the abuse.
I like the idea of the wave of nihilism that goes "well, we were told to bring our whole selves to work, and this was family. If this is family, it ain't working, so we might as well be here for free Thanksgiving dinner."
Shitty metaphor, but I think I'm onboard with the idea of "company loyalty is a relic"; the "other half" of that being "I might as well work as much as possible" feels very... soul death.
It's true that there is no longer a craft to work. "Knowledge Work" is sort of inherently meaningless by virtue of its ephemerality. In the 00s people tried to address this by creating a "Maker" culture of people who had regular jobs but then also got deeply into some sort of artisanal craft, however obscure. Noble goal but it ultimately failed unfortunately. Most people simply don't have the creativity in them to do such a thing.
Man, this stuff bums me out. Only half way through the episode but this phenomenon of overworking is a symptom of what so many people are feeling in the remote era. Disposable, invisible.
Kat you mentioned that there is no longer a craft to working. I totally agree. I am a career changer into software engineering, and you can just feel the craft being sucked out of it. There are no mentors, things get built, and then they break because everyone has moved on to their new gig, then you fix the feature and realize that no customers are using it because your company is in the shitter.... Around we go. Very easy to just check out.
I feel the pull back to working IRL in my soul. I don’t think the world will come back to it any time soon, but I will be relieved when that other shoe drops and companies start investing in it again.