You know I’ve put myself through some genuinely awful jobs because I foolishly believed that the job in question had some feature I just couldn’t get anywhere else. Either it paid slightly better, my friends worked there, or it was inside at a desk and didn’t have weekends.
Every time I’d end up getting fired from one of those jobs, though I think I survived at one or two long enough to quit, I’d end up finding a new awful job that was actually slightly better. And the cycle would begin anew. And I wasn’t the only one, most of the people working those jobs could tell you a similar story.
My point is, if you can convince people that it’s worse anywhere else, they’ll put up with quite a bit. More to that point, my current job has occasional weekends, is not climate controlled, and my desk is really just for taking breaks at, and it’s the best job I’ve ever had. Because the things that make a job good are not the things that most people associate with good jobs. Which makes it easier to manipulate them in to keeping really bad ones.
That’s not addressing the question of pay. Just commented that any other activity would pay more. Begging, hunting for change on the street, etc. There’s no way they get 1-2 pennies a day.
You know I’ve put myself through some genuinely awful jobs because I foolishly believed that the job in question had some feature I just couldn’t get anywhere else. Either it paid slightly better, my friends worked there, or it was inside at a desk and didn’t have weekends.
Every time I’d end up getting fired from one of those jobs, though I think I survived at one or two long enough to quit, I’d end up finding a new awful job that was actually slightly better. And the cycle would begin anew. And I wasn’t the only one, most of the people working those jobs could tell you a similar story.
My point is, if you can convince people that it’s worse anywhere else, they’ll put up with quite a bit. More to that point, my current job has occasional weekends, is not climate controlled, and my desk is really just for taking breaks at, and it’s the best job I’ve ever had. Because the things that make a job good are not the things that most people associate with good jobs. Which makes it easier to manipulate them in to keeping really bad ones.
Yeah you make really good points.
That’s not addressing the question of pay. Just commented that any other activity would pay more. Begging, hunting for change on the street, etc. There’s no way they get 1-2 pennies a day.