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Originally Posted by jwb
I disagree. You have more to gain from striving to do better at everything you do than you do from cynically shrinking away from your reality and trying to wait the clock out.
It gives you resolve, durability, adaptability, and mental toughness. Of course there's only so much you can get from any one job. So if you find yourself in an utterly unfulfilling job that brings you no satisfaction even when you perform it to the best of your ability, that's a terrible thing and you need a different job.
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It mentally trains you to be an unthinking cog who devalues their own labor for the benefit of an employer who will most likely not strive to be as good a boss to you as you are an employee to them. Labor becomes something one does as a moral and social obligation rather than as a tool for their own betterment, optimistically shrinking from your reality because you are willingly widening the uneven footing between yourself and your employer.
****ing rednecks and their Protestant work ethic.