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There is only one type of job: Doing something someone else doesn't want to do.

Edit: tell me this doesn’t sound stupid

There is only two types of jobs:

Doing something someone else doesn’t want to do

Or

Doing something a specific other person can’t do

The only thing I can think of that someone other than myself can’t do is piss my wife off to no end. Not really a job, tho.

TootSweet , (edited )

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polonius-rex ,

doing something someone else can't do

Empricorn ,

If you’re not spending your employment trying to do what you want to do vs what your boss wants you to do… What are you even doing with your life!?

sunzu ,

There is a big lesson in there folks...

Obviously, there a lot of limits on it but that's the right idea. The higher you go, the more freedom you can get.

But at the end of the day, it is the same shiti regime.

OhmsLawn ,

If that were the case, there wouldn’t be an application and interview process.

There are often multiple candidates for a given position.

Edit: I read this as “no one” rather than “someone.”

I understand that someone on earth might not want any given job.

Clinicallydepressedpoochie OP ,

It’s not even about the task. I sure there is some one who would like to do the task but it’s never just that simple. You can’t just be an astronaut, you have to; goto school; be exceptional; etc.

Willy ,

Nah, some people need the money. It just happens to mainly come from jobs.

makingStuffForFun ,
@makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml avatar

My workplace has heaps of cool jobs. No one person can do them all. So we have more people, doing cool jobs. The world is not all doom and gloom.

Clinicallydepressedpoochie OP ,

I’m OK with that, but at the same time I’d like to know what the cool jobs were.

DemBoSain ,
@DemBoSain@midwest.social avatar

Beer-cooler maintenance.

Clinicallydepressedpoochie OP ,

I could work on veer-coolers, I guess. Do I want to do it 40 hrs a wk, until the day I die? No. Do I want to do anything 40 hours a week till the day I die? Not really.

paf0 ,

TBD

Willy ,

But really…. Do you, or annyone else, really want to be doing it? If you had the resources not to be and could do anything else like travel, spending time with loved ones, or even just sitting in your own filth, would you choose to do it?

sunzu ,

He is still drunk on that koolaid, it takes sometime to figure it out.

BearOfaTime ,

I’ve done that - frankly I’m not wired for 100% leisure/do what you want. Motivation slips away when there’s no meaning behind doing something.

bjoern_tantau ,
@bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de avatar

There’s also the job someone else is unable to do.

Clinicallydepressedpoochie OP , (edited )

Ok, but I’m going to stretch some logic here. If they are unable to do it, wouldn’t that mean they are unwilling to learn or figure it out?

bjoern_tantau ,
@bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de avatar

I am disabled. No amount of learning will enable me to cook my own meal. But I would sure like to do it.

Clinicallydepressedpoochie OP ,

Still just messing around but would it actually be a job if someone else would do it for free?

Rhynoplaz ,

Just change your thought to can’t or won’t do, and you are good to go!

Clinicallydepressedpoochie OP ,

You make your own thought! =P

Rhynoplaz ,

I can’t. I’m not in the shower.

Clinicallydepressedpoochie OP ,

What if you somehow relate the thought to showers.

FireRetardant ,

Let me just quit my day job and learn the electrical code to install that new breaker panel I need. Gotta brush up on the gas fitting code too cause my furnace needs work. Then ill drive myself to the hospital where i will be my own nurse and my own surgeon.

The ability to learn is also linked with time, energy, and accessibility to resources.

Clinicallydepressedpoochie OP ,

So… that’s the point. You don’t want to do all that…

FireRetardant ,

I would love to be able to become a master of all trades. I cant put food on my table consistently unless I stick to one.

Clinicallydepressedpoochie OP ,

But you don’t really want to because that would be really hard.

Lemming6969 ,

There are so many things you want to do or know that you are incapable of knowing or doing because you are too stupid to learn it. No amount of trying will be enough. Your specific brain is incapable. Not everyone has the same abilities to do or learn, but may want to if they could.

Clinicallydepressedpoochie OP , (edited )

Things, not jobs. Job’s are things people have and are capable of doing.

You’re sitting over here telling me you don’t want to learn to be a plumber, a pipe fitter, a doctor or a lawyer. Then you’re saying you’re not capable. But it’s not just about you. Anyone can do the job, the job exists, just no one wants to do that specific task. UNLESS, they are paid for it.

FireRetardant ,

Not everyone is capable of doing every job. The tasks of a recptionist are far different than those of a roofer. Jobs like emergency services can be high stress positions, jobs like assembly work can be rather dull sometimes. Everyone and every job is different.

Clinicallydepressedpoochie OP ,

You’re telling me a roofer could never learn to be a receptionist or receptionist could never learn to be a roofer.

I’m telling you no one wants to work 40 hrs a week diving 200ft with an oxygen tank strapped to their back and a welding torch in their hand to make underwater repairs on an oil rig.

Great, you want to weld. Great, you want scuba. You don’t want that fucking job, no one does.

FireRetardant ,

No, but someone with a fear of heights could become a receptionist while struggle to become a roofer

Clinicallydepressedpoochie OP ,

Ok, but why would they want to be a roofer then?

Either way you’re not hearing me. Jobs are real things. No one wants to spend 40 hours a week climbing on roofs in the hot summer sun. They could want to know that stuff and they could want a baked in tan for all I care but they don’t want to exhaust their time and effort for nothing in return.

thermal_shock ,

wheelchair bound guy isn’t running power lines in your neighborhood. literally CANT.

Clinicallydepressedpoochie OP ,

And all he dreams about is working 40 hours a week running powerlines.

I’m realizing now there is something really wrong with everyone ITT. It’s like the only thing you imagine for yourself is having some sort of job.

Don’t get me wrong. Work is good. Skills are good. Except no one should be fantasizing about back breaking labor until the day they die.

thermal_shock ,

well it doesn’t need to be back breaking I like networking and having an accomplished, finished task or job.

but the title was literally “job”, and you set a challenge saying it’s for someone who doesn’t want to, of course you’re going to 1000 examples why you’re incorrect, it’s nothing personal.

Clinicallydepressedpoochie OP ,

It’s not incorrect everyone is just playing semantics.

You might like aspects of your job but explain to me why you wouldn’t do it for free.

rockerface ,

…so are you?

Clinicallydepressedpoochie OP ,

… that’s … why… I put it as a shower thought…

Daxter101 ,

Just as a sanity check for you, I think you’re right about the people who choose to post on this thread.

“Something someone can’t do”, is a subset of “job”, because a “job” literally is something you get money for, because other people don’t wanna do it for some reason.

But the antiwork community is not here, and to be honest, your user of the word “type” in “only one type of job”, muddles the meaning of the sentence a bit.

HenriVolney ,

Sometimes it is doing something nobody else can do

neidu2 , (edited )

In my case, I get the impression that it’s both.
Once during 2020 I got a phone call out of the blue from the technical manager. “Hey, would you like to be our new <first name of the one who used to hold that position>?”. Turns out my predecessor was looking for greener pastures.

When I told some coworkers about this, their reaction was “And you said yes??”

It’s been four years now. Changed to a new employer last month, but I’m doing the exact same stuff, and I enjoy it.

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