• TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com
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    15 hours ago

    “The best augury of a man’s success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.”

    – from George Eliot’s novel Daniel Deronda

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    “Vocational awe” describes the feeling that your work matters so much that you should accept all manner of tradeoffs and calamities to get the job done. Ettarh uses the term to describe the pathology of librarians, teachers, nurses and other underpaid, easily exploited workers in “caring professions.”

    I do not like the 21st century. Richard Scary you were my only hope.

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      14 hours ago

      Nice thing about gen Z it seems like they finally going to refuse to do these shit fucking jobs for peanuts because.

      The parasite class either gonna have to start paying PR more likely quality of these services will be gutted even further.

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        I’m not holding my breath. We have a Z that insists no one in her generation wants to put up with the 24/7 availability expected from those who want to advance in our industry. Yet I received emails from her over the weekend.

        They’re human, same as the rest of us, and will justify all the bad labor hygiene that older generations have.