Worked at one for maybe a year and some change. Thinking back on it, it was kinda enjoyable. I liked my colleagues, I liked prepping drinks and getting orders out the window. I even liked mopping. The real drawback, what eventually drove me away from it, was doing it every day for the foreseeable future.

If I could, I would sign on to work, like, two weeks. Then move on to something else. Maybe pick up another two weeks when I felt like it. The idea that you have one job that you sign on and do everyday until you quit or die seems... silly. Surely it's possible to make employment more flexible -- to let people train for and try a lot of different things. How are you supposed to know what you like doing before you've done it? And, one imagines, a workforce with a better understanding of a variety of different jobs would be better equipped to anticipate problems and find solutions.

  • emizeko [they/them]
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    1 year ago

    In communist society, nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticise after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, herdsman or critic. [52]