ronandannette
I gave myself this tag and I "Like" myself too!
- Joined
- May 4, 2006
This is very well put!I agree with what you are saying. However, there is a difference between not hating your job, but not liking it and being miserable. I am not advocating for misery, either. If someone is truly miserable I would hope they would work to try to find something that suits them better.
For lack of a better term, my job is fine. I am respected and I respect the company and they people. However to say I am fulfilled or living the dream would be overstating it.
I also agree about not being miserable everyday for retirement that may never come. Our jobs (while maybe not our dream jobs) allow us to pretty much do and have what we want. Sure, I wish I could take more time off, but who doesn't.
ETA: I just want to state I personally am not miserable, nor did I say I was. Wishing my job were less stressful is not being miserable.
But you get that arbitrarily suppressing what other jobs pay won’t solve your problem, right? It seems to me that the American expectation of absolutely everybody having to achieve levels of higher education has diluted the value of a degree, in terms of career advancement or earning power. It’s extremely likely many of the retail and food service workers you refer to have degrees. And the ridiculous cost of your post-secondary educations just escerbates the tension.Fair enough. But to be honest, I don't feel like I'm wishing for high pay. I'd be just fine with the $33K that is a typical entry-level salary in my field. I'm struggling specifically with the idea of making <$11/hr in a time and place when retail and food service are paying that much or more.