{"id":54656,"date":"2024-12-23T01:00:23","date_gmt":"2024-12-23T06:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=54656"},"modified":"2024-12-22T10:38:34","modified_gmt":"2024-12-22T15:38:34","slug":"qotd-the-tedium-of-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2024\/12\/23\/qotd-the-tedium-of-work\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The tedium of work"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; padding: 0px 0px 10px 25px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>Few of us are talented enough to make a living from the exercise of our passion. So, driven by economic necessity, we fall into &#8220;jobs&#8221;. Most of these jobs are superfluous and invented \u2014 I&#8217;m sure of it! \u2014 to keep the talentless population employed. &#8220;Little girls don&#8217;t grow up wanting to become a prostitute&#8221;, or so the trope goes. And that is probably true. But it is also probably true that little girls don&#8217;t grow up wanting to become &#8220;vice-president for real-time card payments&#8221;. Or &#8220;senior manager for content licensing&#8221;. Or anything with &#8220;talent development&#8221; or &#8220;HR&#8221; in the title. Don&#8217;t get me wrong, these jobs have their uses. If you are a good vice-president for real-time card payments, someone, somewhere will be paid in real time. And that is a cause for joy. But how many of us are stoical enough to be motivated by the vague image of a nameless, faceless customer we will never meet, and about whom, let&#8217;s be honest, we don&#8217;t really care, when we push open the door of our open-plan at nine in the morning and brace ourselves for ten hours of drudgery?<\/p>\n<p>Elena Shalneva <a href=\"https:\/\/quillette.com\/2020\/01\/30\/work-the-tragedy-of-our-age\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Work &mdash; the Tragedy of Our Age&#8221;, <em>Quillette<\/em><\/a>, 2020-01-29.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Few of us are talented enough to make a living from the exercise of our passion. So, driven by economic necessity, we fall into &#8220;jobs&#8221;. Most of these jobs are superfluous and invented \u2014 I&#8217;m sure of it! \u2014 to keep the talentless population employed. &#8220;Little girls don&#8217;t grow up wanting to become a prostitute&#8221;, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[831,57,41],"tags":[95,43],"class_list":["post-54656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-humour","category-quotations","tag-jobs","tag-women"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-edy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54656"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93097,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54656\/revisions\/93097"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}