It depends on the field, and it’s also dependent on how good a person gets at their position.
Most of my time is spent looking at prints and customer specs and trying to come up with an engineering solution. Describing my job as doodling and thinking makes it sound like one of those jobs where a person doesn’t do shit.
Also there are also of people with MBA’s whose only job is enshitify everything for short term gain. They don’t really do shit but act like the smartest person in the room.
I would say that having to sustain mental effort on a task isn’t doing nothing, even if you’re not doing some super involved task.
Most of my current job is researching a client issue, digging through (really badly made and badly maintained) documentation, and giving a solution. The last part is about 20% of my job I’d say.
They are out there. I do production support and there is always more work than hors in the day for me. One of my friends who started at the company same time as me (we were in the same training class when we started at tech support) now works in our underwriting department and he has 3 or 4 hous of work to do a day the rest of the time he watches tv or movies. I enjoy the high stress and would go bananas doing his job, but theses jobs do exist.
Anything that is described as “knowledge work” is usually closer to this. It’s might still hard, but in a different way, and you’re respected and people don’t question you as long as you get results.
But bullshit jobs still feel like work it’s that what we produce from our work might not really be necessary, or good.
If this doesn’t describe you then it’s not about you, though
I definitely have a bullshit job, but it’s lower down in the hierarchy (read: underpaid but without my work nothing in the company happens)
The people above me definitely don’t seem to have shit to do because all of the people from my team that were “underperforming” had an individual meeting with an HR lead, our team lead, and the market operations lead. To basically tell us “yeah you have to work harder and we don’t care if it’s physically impossible and you’re not getting support”
the problem is that a lot of office jobs are effectively made up to employ people, like if i pay someone to solve arbitrary maths problems that’s not a real job, i’m just making them do work to be able to buy food because i’m a dick.
I’m happy for you. So is mine, it requires all of my mental energy. I would even say it’s enjoyable and rewarding. But unfortunately does not do much to help people other than making some of us a lot of money.
I’m sorry? My office job is a real job, it requires a lot of effort and is stressful.
Yeah, where are all these office jobs where you just do fuck all
if I am off my work by a bit I get half the company breathing down my neck
It depends on the field, and it’s also dependent on how good a person gets at their position.
Most of my time is spent looking at prints and customer specs and trying to come up with an engineering solution. Describing my job as doodling and thinking makes it sound like one of those jobs where a person doesn’t do shit.
Also there are also of people with MBA’s whose only job is enshitify everything for short term gain. They don’t really do shit but act like the smartest person in the room.
I would say that having to sustain mental effort on a task isn’t doing nothing, even if you’re not doing some super involved task.
Most of my current job is researching a client issue, digging through (really badly made and badly maintained) documentation, and giving a solution. The last part is about 20% of my job I’d say.
Oh, you have documentation? How nice.
It’s more like a cursed treasure map than documentation really
They are out there. I do production support and there is always more work than hors in the day for me. One of my friends who started at the company same time as me (we were in the same training class when we started at tech support) now works in our underwriting department and he has 3 or 4 hous of work to do a day the rest of the time he watches tv or movies. I enjoy the high stress and would go bananas doing his job, but theses jobs do exist.
Anything that is described as “knowledge work” is usually closer to this. It’s might still hard, but in a different way, and you’re respected and people don’t question you as long as you get results.
But bullshit jobs still feel like work it’s that what we produce from our work might not really be necessary, or good.
If this doesn’t describe you then it’s not about you, though
I definitely have a bullshit job, but it’s lower down in the hierarchy (read: underpaid but without my work nothing in the company happens)
The people above me definitely don’t seem to have shit to do because all of the people from my team that were “underperforming” had an individual meeting with an HR lead, our team lead, and the market operations lead. To basically tell us “yeah you have to work harder and we don’t care if it’s physically impossible and you’re not getting support”
/rant
the problem is that a lot of office jobs are effectively made up to employ people, like if i pay someone to solve arbitrary maths problems that’s not a real job, i’m just making them do work to be able to buy food because i’m a dick.
I’m happy for you. So is mine, it requires all of my mental energy. I would even say it’s enjoyable and rewarding. But unfortunately does not do much to help people other than making some of us a lot of money.