Work Itself Is a Benefit: The 3 ‘S’s
I’ll bet that there isn’t a one of us who, at least sometimes (though more likely most of the time), doesn’t piss n’ moan about the abject unfairness of having to earn a living by…working! This type of whining permeates all levels, stratas and echelons, from the lowest paid 7-11 cashier to the CEO of Google. Actually, this attitude is equally endemic to both white and blue collar workers, and don’t kid yourself, to the new green collars as well.
Yet, who knows what the general ‘dis-satisfaction rate’ really is? The media, when they deign to profile ‘The Common Man,’ will typically follow the scent of what they think is in vogue, like a stray dog in heat. So, one year when they want to pander to the conservatives, they tell us that, as Americans, we enjoy the very best working conditions possible. And that we should be grateful for what we got, and then they perennially insult our collective intelligence by comparing us to, let’s say, who they think our counterparts are in either Outer Mongolia or Upper Volta. Hell, my cats live better than those folks, and I don’t need Time or Newsweek to tell me so. Nor, by the way, do I feel at all guilty about it. Conversely, and when they feel a little lefty, the story line will be about how corrupt all bosses are, that there’s a grand conspiracy to exploit the American worker, blah blah. Ooh- I know, we’re being ripped off by the ‘Establishment’ (whatever that is…). Let’s ask Abby Hoffman or Timothy Leary-oops, guess not-’cause they’re both dead.
While the worker self-pity needle fluctuates according to the prevailing social winds, all of us are nonetheless left with still having to deal with all the vagaries, problems, challenges and concerns that the world of work provides us with each and every day.
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Article by Victor Kipling and courtesy of jobacle.com – your cure for carbon copy career advice!
