https://www.businessinsider.com/gen-z-job-satisfaction-unhappy-work-salary-promotion-loyalty-2024-2

More young people are saying the same thing: Salary and career growth are the most important things about a job. And it could explain why Gen Z workers are so much more unsatisfied with their jobs than their older colleagues.

  • SkingradGuard [he/him, comrade/them]
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    9 months ago

    a job is just a job

    shocked-pikachu You're telling me it's not supposed to be? I'm supposed to make it my entire personality and dedicate my life to it?

    • the_itsb [she/her, comrade/them]
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      9 months ago

      No no, of course you are!! That's why so many people start conversations with new acquaintances by asking about it:

      "So! What do you do for a living?"

      subtexts may include:

      • "Are you more important than me?"
      • "Can I use your social influence to help me?"
      • "Are you rich and generous and looking for a new cause?"
      • "Can I safely disregard or perhaps even shit on you?"
    • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
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      9 months ago

      For a lot of older people, it is. It's actually pretty sad. Some of them don't even know what to do with their free time once they retire. That's why so many go back to work.

        • CTHlurker [he/him]
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          9 months ago

          Yeah strangely enough none of my grandparents who had decently sized pensions ever decided that retirement was too boring and that working was actually the thing they liked. Somehow they all found other ways to keep themselves occupied either gardening, helping with grandchildren, traveling the world or just reading a whole lot.