Whats everyone's obsession with finding a job with purpose or fun?

I mean to want a job with purpose implies you think your life matters compared to everyone else who is simply a statistic and that you have to do some grandstanding thing with your life.

Then with the whole fun issue, I don't see why work has to be super fun. Have work be work and use the quality of life gained from that work to do something you enjoy.

Am I wrong in my line of thinking?

 

Maybe because people feel like working in a fun or satisfying position will allow them to be more effective in their job. Why do you care anyway?

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a couple thoughts

1 - you spend a higher % of your life at your job, might as well do something purposeful.

2 - it doesn't need to be "fun", but if your job is interesting, intellectual stimulating, etc it will offer a lot of benefits, both tangible/intangible, i shouldn't have to explain what these are.

that said, if everyone wanted a job that was interesting and purposeful then we there wouldn't be any more Actuaries... so maybe you're meant for that?

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  1. You have a purpose—your Associate needs SOMEBODY to blame.

  2. No job is "super fun" AND well-compensated ... at least not for long anyway. If a job is enjoyable, bobbleheads will decide that they BELONG in said career field and will soon find a way to infiltrate it (be it via choice of college major, quick-fix boot camps, overpriced bullshit certifications, etc.) and the laws of supply and demand will come into play. Google may pay well, but the entire tech industry doesn't resemble "Alphabet" in the slightest—probably 80% of the industry consists of programmers who are getting paid $60k at shitty startups or "strategic marketing executives" whose compensation packages consist of free t-shirts, up-front equity, and their CTOs' old 2011 model MacBook Pros. Are they having fun? Maybe, but they're obviously retarded, so, yaknow, moot.

DCDepository:

I just think these tech companies with nap rooms, video game rooms, ball pins and moon bounces are run by a bunch of grown children. It's so goddamned pathetic.

No, it's ingenious. They knows that their autistic, technologically gifted underlings have nothing better to do, no one waiting for them at home, no social lives, no nothing. By offering these "perks" and amenities, they can effectively keep those poor serfs entrapped in the office 24/7 at no extra cost. Those dorks can't hold conversations for longer than half an hour anyway, so they'll eventually retreat to their desks and keep on coding. How is that not obvious?

 

It's not about "thinking that your life matters compared to others", it's about wanting to spend your life in a worthwhile way and actually contribute something to society and the world.

We spend the majority of our waking lives at our jobs, and you are asking why people would want to have a meaningful job that they enjoy? Is spending your time in a meaningless, unfulfilling job a better alternative?

 

completely unrelated...but your post made me think of this kid for some reason:

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Lothario:

I mean to want a job with purpose implies you think your life matters compared to everyone else who is simply a statistic and that you have to do some grandstanding thing with your life.

Then with the whole fun issue, I don't see why work has to be super fun. Have work be work and use the quality of life gained from that work to do something you enjoy.

Am I wrong in my line of thinking?

Have you ever had a job before?

 

You do a job that you know doesn't affect the bottom line of the company, then you know no matter you do it or not you have no effect, even if you're paid good, you do not have worth, you work in Google you got 30 % time for your own projects, if you are good you probably gonna make some useful product (gmap story, that recent solar map in google, etc...) you get reward as recognition and lots of money, you could even go out and start your own startup...

 
Lothario:

I mean to want a job with purpose implies you think your life matters compared to everyone else who is simply a statistic and that you have to do some grandstanding thing with your life.

Then with the whole fun issue, I don't see why work has to be super fun. Have work be work and use the quality of life gained from that work to do something you enjoy.

Am I wrong in my line of thinking?

Hahaha. You go ahead and do something for the rest of your life that you feel has no meaning and is not enjoyable in the least. 30 years from now when you go off the rails be sure to make a follow up post.

 

I used to work (part-time) hard manual labor during college, and the pay was ridiculously good. You basically had HS dropouts raking in 100k-150k / year from they were 18 years old. The hours were long(12-18 hours workdays). The work itself was both back and soul-crushing, and the full-timers were grinding at it 7 days a week at the most.

During one month I made more money than what other students made in a year, but I couldn't bring myself to be there for more than 6 months. It came to the point where I'd have nightmares about the job, waking up soaked from cold-sweats, and my back hasn't been normal since...But anyway, from that point I decided that I will never, ever again let money alone dictate my career choices. Life is too short for terrible jobs...You can't get back wasted time.

(But, with that said, there comes a time where you may have to compromise on the "fun" part. Bills don't pay themselves...But for a 25 year old to stick with a job he/she passionately hates, knowing that things won't get much better, that's one thing l'll never understand.)

 

To be honest, I don't think they need all that stuff to be productive. Maybe just a small part of all the employees...but If that kind of environment is all that you know (Lot's of the startup guys start their careers there, and move up to enterprises like Google, Amazon, etc.), then hyper professional and sterile environment (Like a lot of huge, older companies use) can seem stale.

The main reason they have those "fun" environments is to boost creativity and morale. I don't see anything wrong with that...

 
Lothario:

I mean to want a job with purpose implies you think your life matters compared to everyone else who is simply a statistic and that you have to do some grandstanding thing with your life.

Then with the whole fun issue, I don't see why work has to be super fun. Have work be work and use the quality of life gained from that work to do something you enjoy.

Am I wrong in my line of thinking?

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