The Rise of BULLSH*T Jobs
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I think for much of history, one knew the fruit of one's labour; you worked on a farm or in the army, a carpenter/blacksmith/potter, a dockworker, hunter/fisherman etc. You knew the community and co-workers. Now, many just type info into computers all day collaborating with people they never meet. We go home and sit in front of box, again. Nothing grows, nothing made, nothing to be proud of.
Just the salary cming at the end of month.
I quit my "corporate" job coz I realized after long that you're just another seat and easily replaceable. I once told my ex-boss that I am learning a foreign language to add to my skills and she made a mocking statement and thereafter she would make some lame jokes on me for that. Typical Indian "leader". After 5 long years, I called it quits. A risk it was but I am happy with that decision. No more negative energy from any "corporate" douchebag anymore.
What did you do next, man?
@@adityapathak5761 your mother
@@kapjoteh ayooo 😭😭
Can't believe she'd mock you like that! These are the same people who ask you for your skills and hobbies in every interview and want to know more about your "personality". And when you're actually trying to upgrade yourself, they wouldn't even appreciate the effort? Yes maybe you learning a new language won't help the company make a million dollars. But is it all about the profit? Whatever happened to individual fulfillment and satisfaction? I don't get the corporate machines.
This is why you should NEVER tell other people about your future plans on life: because their negativity will affect you sooner or later.
I have so much screen time on this video 😍😍😍
and it was from those loser days when you had long hair. Kept here for posterity.
Do you like hot potatoes
joma's dream may come true to become director, may be... who knows?
Great... you'll be a star now 👏👏
The rat?
Jobs these days have become so high level and so abstract that it's difficult to feel the value of what you do
basically this.
right and I think there's certain value to this abstractism because of the rising markets in various fields we can create value out of nothing for the sake of digging out profits. recently, the nft market is an example of this. what the sellers do there is increase the value of the nft artificially even if the art isn't meaningful, buyers include huge corporations that elevate their brand value through nfts
A lot of more jobs used to be way more utilitarian back then
@@ankushhh I wasn't aware of the NFT market before I read your comment.
They end up being surrogate jobs that are endless
The irony is as you get older and gain experience from "remedial" jobs means that settling in a cosy office, getting closer to management and doing less physical work for a bigger pay cheque is like the natural order of things. Who wants to be a binman or tradesman in their 40's and 50's?! Much of the aging workforce will prefer a BS job, however also i don't see a problem in not working, i would happily retire as early as possible and get into your hobbies not what someone wants from you to benefit them..
I was just listening to Cal’s audio book you referenced this morning and then watched your video. I’ve come to terms with the “passion hypothesis” and jumping from job to job trying to find your ideal/dream job isn’t the best thing to do. It’s hard to break out of the hustle culture mindset for us gen Y’s.
Bohanes’ hierarchy of career fulfilment
1. Be mentally and physically healthy
2. Get an income
3. Have a plan
4. Follow your passion (if you must)
Cap 2020: "Grateful for my SalesForce consultant Job"
Cap 2021: Quit his job: "F*CK CORPORATE OFFICE JOBS"
To be completely fair as someone working a SalesForce Jr. Position... Frick SalesForce LOL.
Same thing , this year😂
@@SuperAlphaKid same here haha
use the retirement services
Cloud DevOps. I'm just loving it
I started a house cleaning business a few months ago. I love detailing showers and deep dusting houses. It feels like art and is incredibly fufilling.
Im glad you find your business fulfilling ! Great to hear from a passionate entrepreneur! Keep up the work rate 💥💥💥🔥🔥💯💯
What' is your email
I wish I had the same passion for cleaning!😅
My place is always a mess
Plus you get some really good pipes to clean
This is the route I am probably gonna take and start a tool restoration and repair business if I don't make it into machining
great video. My last job was utterly pointless but my boss kept harping on how important the work i was doing was. When I got redeployed to another group due to budget cuts, i saw just how valuable my job was. I just quit a few months ago
Holy sh1t dont expect you here
@@DragonboltBlastter yeah i'm everywhere i guess.
Ay man, nice to see you here. Keep on rockin'! Thank you for all the GnR' content!
When I was hired for a full time position with the city municipality, we only worked about two or three hours a day, the rest of the time we were told to go somewhere else and stay out of sight.
@@David-eu1ms why
Carl Icahn told a story about a train/logistic company he once bought. There was a whole white collar department that he could not understand what they were doing. He hired a consultant firm to figure it out, they couldnt. He then sat with the operation exec, the exec that had the most contact with the actual day to day business of trains and moving goods. The exec told Carl that the whole department was nothing more then paper pushers. The day after, Carl fired the whole department, twelve floor of people in NYC... The business continued running like nothing happened..
His biggest mistake there was hiring a consulting firm which is more useless than the department he fired
@@jjeverson2269 Consultants are only as useful as the value told to be created and used
Twitter defines this!
This video explains why I left the finance world and banks cause its literally everything you explain as a "bullshit job". Engineering is more rewarding, and makes you actually think on a daily bases.
There's comments here that describe engineering the way you describe finance. I suppose there's no perfect industry.
@@ignazs.5816
Nah. There are good industries. But everyone have their own views. Someone might not like what u like and vice versa
As someone who’s been in the “helping” profession for the past 7 years, it is even more numb-minding and devaluing. I’m dying to get out. It’s made me depressed, drained, and left me feeling used. Be careful what you find “meaningful” and what you sacrifice. Some people can do it. I got sick of 30k/year salaries and costant emotional burnout.
I hear you. The pay is so depressing. It's gotten a little better since Covid, but housing has increased as well. You give so much of yourself to others then you don't have the money to do much of anything for yourself. There's times when I wish I would have worked restaurants, so I could have had a pay bump and some time off. I'm looking for something else, but I feel bad for the people I'm helping. No one wants to work with them for these wages. I'm trying to stick with it until Covid subsides
@@thejubieexperience What do you do now??
18:23 - "acquire fulfillment regardless of the job you're in"
That's what I started doing after working for 2 years in my "BULLS***" job, where it pays very, very, VERY well, but it feels pointless at the end of the work day. So I decided to work on UA-cam, develop personal skills, and to make time for my hobbies, and then my life started to be a bit satisfying, at least for the part where I'm not at my day job.
Don't get me wrong I don't "HATE" my day job, I actually enjoy it, but I don't feel any sense of accomplishment at the end of the day.
Out of curiosity what is your job
@@Approximation I am an IT Technician
As the official translator into Spanish (for Spain), I fully recommend the book in which this video is based: Bullshit Jobs, by David Graeber, is a fascinating eye-opener, and absolutely a must read.
Seems more plagiarized than based but yeah, the original is great.
Even though I’m not making money off my UA-cam channel, I find myself in the same spot you feel about feeling inadequate if I perceive a video as “not being good enough”. It’s a concept I’m learning to unlearn (ironic) that even if I find later on ways I could have made that video better, it doesn’t make the original video meaningless. Furthermore, not every video has to be super impactful. I fell there’s a lot of pressure for artists especially to create something revolutionary, that we forget to simply create even if the result is a simple product
The furniture building thing: construction work / house builders are often cited as one of the highest fulfillment jobs. Because you can see every house you built in the end. Every project has a visible, tangible, practical / useful result.
Yeah but u are still nothing but slave if you work for someone, your body will pay price. You got to be your own boss
exactly, this was one of the explanations for being so rewarding....
"What do you do for a living?"
"Pretend to be busy"
What I learned today is that there's a phrase "touch tactically" and I'm totally going to steal it 😂 Jokes aside this video hits right in the feels. Recently I've been struggling to find meaning in my work as a software engineer. I also agree that it has to do something with all our work being digital and seeing no tangible results in front of us. I've also been pondering with the idea to start making furniture in my free time as a hobby. There's just something special about working with wood and other materials, shaping them with your own hands to produce some final product.
Did using that verbage find any impact in meetings?
I’m a forensic analyst! Everything I do matters mate.
He's being sarcastic, in case nobody figured it out
As someone working in public education on a team constantly solving more critical problems on shrinking budgets, this video is infuriating.
Part of me is wondering why neighbors and friends don’t ever discuss how simple their meaningless high paying jobs are. But if you are someone with a BS jobs making over $85,000, you wouldn’t tell anyone how good you have it. My question is do people with high paying BS jobs laugh at those of us struggling in a difficult low-paying career? Am I a sucker?
I work in a bank, in prudential reporting. You could argue that the more complex the reporting becomes, the safer people's savings are and the shareholders' capital is less exposed to risks. So that gets me going purpose wise. Plus it's like playing a game where you have to solve problems, nevermind how important that solution is in the grand scheme of things. But yes, maybe in the larger picture we should be making stuff instead of these fine tuning jobs (at best, BS at worst). This means that the centre of the world has moved to places like China, India, Bangladesh, Vietnam or Indonesia and we in the west live in a sort of Matrix where thankfully at least we (very few of us for the rest) produce our own food and , for now, some do very important research. But it fucking scares me when I see how the stuff that was made locally in my city 100 (hell 30) years ago is imported from China or other places. It is very scary.
I work a corporate job as an “analyst,” but I’m lucky enough where leadership basically lets me make up my own job. They give me ad hoc requests and in return they give me freedom. As a result I’m able to investigate inefficiencies that most people aren’t even considering. I also almost never set meetings and work through the ones I am in. I also never ask for someone to align with me or give me data. I ask for they keys and get the data myself, or automate it if I can.
I like the end of the video. I learn everything that I can. I’m a communications major, but I taught myself database management and coding in order to accomplish something that I would have otherwise needed someone else for.
Lol I’m literally in the same position, data analyst - manager give random tasks to do, and I automate everything I can, learned databases/ coding by myself haha :]
wow, thanks for that. I just started a new job in IT with the aim of making enough money to do a phD. And I thought it was okay for me to do something that I am not genuinely intereted in if it pays well so that I can do something meaningful and creative the rest of the time. Now that I am 2-3 months in, I just realized that I can't do this shit. Coming from a working class family, I've worked all kinds of jobs to pay for my studies, including hard physical labor. But trust me, none of that gave such an intense feeling of doing something utterly meaningless and being completely redundant. Gonna quit that shit and become a teacher now. Thanks for this highly important video!
My friends don't understand how a good paying job with benefits can drain you. They don't understand the frustration of sitting there thinking "this is all bullshit".
I'm so happy that you are now doing UA-cam full-time, your content is so amazing. I wish you nothing but complete success everytime I watch your videos.
You are definitely right about this being a first world problem, but I would take it a step farther because even within the first world most people aren’t at the point on Maslow’s hierarchy where they need to feel self-actualized. I worked in the food service industry and in retail for years before I got my current desk job and I would never go back. No I don’t feel self-actualized by my job but I don’t make my job my whole identity, and this job actually enables me to explore other interests and invest my time elsewhere outside of work whereas before I was so tired just from working these long hours for low pay that I couldn’t find fulfillment elsewhere because I just didn’t have the energy. I do feel more fulfilled now than I was before but it’s because my white-collar job is just a means to an end rather than the end itself.
Didn't get the last sentence.
It maybe a "first world problem" but from what I've experienced this first world problem is felt by many people around the world even by people who don't live in first world countries.
Thanks for the genuine and insightful advice captain. I'm about to start majoring in Strategic management and finance and my future goal was to climb that "corporate ladder". U have now made me question my entire existence lol but I've always felt like learning a trade as I felt it was an actual practical useful skill. I don't know what I'm going to do now but I hope I make the right decision
"My mom cooked for me, she made me ineffective". Gold.
Spent 3 years as part of a big project to create internal Facebook for a company. In the end, no one used it. Shocking. I quit. You can never find a job where you feel 100% of the time satisfied, but if you find in the end you had some impact on other people it may be worth it.
The future of work will be increasingly decentralized and entrepreneurial as bs jobs are inevitable replaced by tech.
Excited and optimistic about the possibilities!
This is true to an extent but have you worked a bs job? There's a lot of bs that's just not going to be replaced by machines. Mainly because they're so bs that it doesn't even make sense to make a machine do it.
true! tech will replace a lot of jobs...I agree, teaching yourself entrepreneurial skills and building business around something you love can be more rewarding and also successful in the long run...
I had one of those jobs to make a newsletter. Honestly, it was the best job I ever had. Total creative freedom to design it, source articles, write articles, and then handle all the distribution in print, email, and online. Best three months ever. The company was sold off to a competitor, and my job was over.
What you stated is so true => Most people identify their self dignity with the work they do even though lot of people hate their jobs.
That is even more true with Indians as they want to brag about their job positions during get togethers and family functions.
That said, there are various factors that need considered when it comes to selecting a job. Commute time, work life balance, attending to family needs like picking up/dropping children, our career expertise areas vs learning involved in a job, congenial working environment, attitude of colleagues and manager, pay on par with your expertise etc. What I got maximum out of all these in a job was about 70-80%. I took one job which I knew was not favorable after six months and then left that job within an year. I then found a job where I stayed for next 8 years which met 80% of my expectations I listed above.
Most of this is due to the change in the American economy after WW II where they moved manufacturing overseas and in the process devaluing "manual labor" as the basis of the middle class lifestyle. As a result created a whole lot of extra positions for marketing, sales and other "service" kinds of positions for the US workforce along with positions to managing and tracking all these related activities which now require degrees or training for the same kind of middle class lifestyle. If all these things were done on site like they used to be, a lot of these extra positions wouldn't exist. And you can see this in all aspects of the economy. Take a microchip for example. The design work will be done from the US but then parts of that process are sent to other companies around the world and then once finished, these have to get sent to other companies in other places for manufacturing and then components get shipped to various places to complete the final packaging.
Whats interesting is that this effort clamping only exists in the external job market. Inside the household, the advancement of technology has greatly impacted how much effort daily life takes, leading to similar feelings of nonusefulness. This dramatic shift potentially leads to things like valium overuse, for example, lol
Krazam sounds really funny, reminds me of that "the expert" sketch
This is a great video in so many regards, it led me to many thoughts and writings, instant subscribe
Also youre sooo cute
The flip side of the coin to the BS corporate jobs are the get rich quick schemes/courses. Please be informed before making investment decisions whatever you decide to buy or leave your original, possibly, well paid job. Regardless, glad to see Captain Sinbad happy with this path since his NoFap videos.
Great Video: In big companies, we are not more than small exchangeable cogs in the machine. Even if our work provides value, this value is abstract, because we never see the consequences of our work.
When a musician plays her instrument, she will create emotions in her audience.
When a street sweeper cleans the street, she will leave a clean street for the neighborhood.
When a cook is mixing together ingredients, he is creating a meal some people will enjoy.
But when an office worker is inputting data into an Excel row, there is nobody who will profit directly from this action.
This is the problem of our modern division of labor: In big companies, our work is so abstract and so specialized, that there is no possible way for us to judge if our work is actually providing any value.
However, I believe that most bullshit jobs do provide value. The problem is, that this value is caused very indirectly. Even persons who are profiting from your work, don't know that you are actually responsible for the produced value. This is because of complicated work processes that are diffusing the chain of action.
Office Space was such an underrated film....from the opening scene...genius.
thanks for giving me more meaning to the physicality of my artwork with this. agree with the other commenters that your videos have always left me feeling capable of my will
Mann this video is spot on...loved the content dude..i really feel youtube should promote videos like this rather than the BS reels without any real meaning
Thank you for having the courage to say out loud that the HR department and PMs are mostly useless. Great video!
Actually, a world without nurses as we know them.. because they work for the Rockefellers.. we'd be much much better. Same with teachers. Now mechanics, and dock workers and artists.. we can't do without them.
With half a million subs, the probability of each video being very impactful for even one person is high, I think.
Interesting video! The addition of technology and automation into Systems without analysis of those systems creates waste. Sadly, that waste is often the human elements of those Systems. Lately, I’ve been revisiting a lot of Systems Thinking in this regard. There’s a movement towards practical skills that I think will only grow.
Let me introduce you to the job of an 11 Bravo in the US Army.. Have you ever mopped a sidewalk while it’s raining ? I’d kill to have a “Salesforce” job.
This is a hard video to watch as I'm in my last semester of college realizing I need to make a choice between corporate- currently learning Salesforce- or trying to get a job in social work with only a comms degree, or work at a waste treatment plant (my minor is environment science, that's the closest job to that field I could get)
Honestly - chase the money man hahaha
Yeah first step is start creating income and be debt free .
@@ameenabdullah3712 debt is easy- I don't have any student debt lol. No car, credit card, etc debt either. But chasing the money already cuts out any social work position, so that'd be an easy consideration- I made more working at the home Depot than most sw positions lol
@@stevend776 sw ?
@@stevend776 I don't think working for money ,cuts out any social work positions if thats what to u mean. Working is necessary for all people for livelihood .
And there is CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY CSR SECTOR of many great businesses which give back . And moreover I beleive that in the present system you need to create value before you can give back to society . So maybe work full time and do social work part time and collectively .that's what I have concluded about it.
The modern workforce in general exists for one main reason... to keep you occupied, and not focused on dealing with all the social, environmental and political corruption we are drowning in - mostly as the result of corporate monopolization. The more time you spend "working" the less time you have to find out what is actually going on in the world around you.
I worked for years at a job where I felt I was efficient & effective. As different bosses came & went, I was given additional, meaningless tasks which I referred to as “bean counting” or busywork. I often referred to them as my PTS reports. I felt it they were just to add stress to my life.
Congratulations! You identified the problem of being someone else's employee. You're not invested in the outcome. All those seemingly meaningless, even Kafkaesque procedures are there to prevent liabilities or conform to certain regulations for the company. They don't matter to you because you're not the CEO or a shareholder. They're there to make the company run smoothly as a machine that produces tons of money for said CEO and shareholders. Your salary is just the price they consider worth it to have that machine run smoothly. No matter how big it is you're still just a cog and it doesn't compare to what they're making. So enjoy your money and shut up about it because people have real problems.
I was an industrial inspector for the city and county of San Francisco for 11 years. The job was to look the other way and run side jobs if you want. I spent most of the time reporting the Mayor and GMs to an uninterested Dennis Herrera the city attorney. The Feds arrested a bunch of managers and Herrera took one of the jobs.
My old IT job was mostly me organizing tech equipment and creating user accounts. Not really sure how much of that was necessary
I fully agree with you. I have friends who work as strategic consultants, wearing ties and travelling the world to attend pointless marketing meetings all the time. They know they work a fake job with a real wage, but they will never admit it. World is clearly broken.
20 years from now another video like this will be up. Its a circle of life. Nothing matters.
HR is actually crucial, though I don't work in HR, as an employee who works in a company that outsources HR, feels suck
Mrs Richards: " I paid for a room with a view!"
Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam. "
Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!"
Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..."
Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!"
Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky."
Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction."
Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment?
This is exactly how I felt working my previous job. My boss would have me index every single file, FILE on the PC that only I had access to BY HAND just so he, the illiterate bastard he was, would have an idiot proof way to find files in my PC
Oh man, that's golden words!! I really need all the BS people with their BS infinite "important" meetings and other BS "important and urgent" reports, altogether with BS FORCED teamwork for the only reason to have "teamwork" to WATCH this video!! Thank you!
let's be honest. Even if our jobs are not BS or made up, we are generally not allowed to get anything done by the BS squadron. I have worked in IT for 3 decades and the number of times we were on the brink of doing something ground breaking for the org and got told no by the BS squadron so that their positions would not be challenged by automation, knowledge, or data based decision making. I would say that 50% of the people in my org are doing nothing at all.
I dunno, i guess people feel like this whenever there are new jobs and the old ones get done more easily, even if essential perhaps more apparently "useless" jobs are more needed actually and therefore more paid... And it makes sense, but because we have in mind the inpractical idea that a harder(etc) job should be more paid (not because less people want to do it but because of the harder or more costy being actually a factor per se..) we struggle and feel it weird, but tbh i think the system to get value is good enough, like i like it more than communist theory of work/value xdddd, and i think it works better and at the end gives us more satisfaction and better living...
Were constantly told we have to be valuable, in all aspects of our lives. No wonder theres a mental health crisis
I love how much value that everyplate sponsorship added for me as a college student. In regards to the video, I'm curious to hear your thoughts on the role of an engineer, where our work can be lost in subterfuge but also had a tangible end result.
4:43 not sure that bailiffs and hr fall in this category. bailiffs in the us are basically police officers detailed to court security. if they disappeared overnight, courts would get way more rowdy and violent than they are now.
My favorite job ever was a part time assistant gardener at a mall. Creating beauty with plants and flowers. Real results.
I hear you when you say finding meaning at work is a first world problem. Still I have traveled to poorer countries and people there despite their financial situation still wished their jobs meant something to them other than money for survival. It's not a first world problem it's more or less a human desire.
Investing in crypto now should be in every wise individuals list, in some months time you'll be ecstatic with the decision you made today.
Most intelligent words I've heard.
Grade A certified top video. It's amazing how good you have become Captain!
"or by yourself if you have no friends"
felt that in my soul
Shots been fired on whole IT dept 🤣
Graeber proposes UBI as a solution to Bullsh*t Jobs. Why? Simply because anyone with a BS job can quit and pursue work that's more meaningful.
While I agree most people in corporate jobs do needless, meaningless tasks I'm a firmly believe everyone has a capability to have impact and do inspirational things to lead changes. And If you're not passionate about you do then change what you do. Simple.
Yay, someone knows about Keynes and Graeber in the internet and makes videos about them. Thanks for propagating that knowledge, people are so used to renting their time and skills for whatever job there is out there just for the sake of having a job, that nobody considers their need in the first place.
My bullsh*t job is to pick up a phone and help the person with their internet issues so they can continue their b*llshit job from home.
And the cycle of life continues.
Now you are zeroing in the underlying reason for my passion in the culinary arts.
Good point. Why do blue collar jobs pay less? Doesn’t make sense at all.
Amazing content Bhai... I wonder what it takes to create content of this quality 😌✌️
How dare you...call out this total reality.
If these jobs did nothing why would they hire you? They could just not hire you and pocket the money which says that they probably do deliver value, it's just hard for you to see the value because in a white collar job you're so abstracted away from the end result. Because you don't personally see the end result you think it isn't there even though it is
I was thinking exactly the same.
Looked through the comments section to find one actually intelligent comment that acknowledged the fact.
And i think either every job on earth is bs or none of the jobs is bs. Just bcoz u read a book that says that modern jobs are bs and u just quit ur job, u will think that many white collar jobs are bs. Ohh god, by the same logic no one would miss any one youtuber or researcher too so these too are bs jobs!!???
As someone who ha worked blue collar jobs all my life. Give me a bs job over this crap. I’m tired. My body aches. Exhausted to the point I can’t even be bothered to exercise any more. Underpaid and always worrying if I’ll ever have enough to own my own home. BS may be boring but at least your not slowly destroying you body and have enough money to eat nice food and participate in more expensive hobby’s.
i dont give a shit they are paying me big. i dont need fulfillment in the office ... i have a life
i guess this is what i've known for my whole life but put in a coherent way for other people to understand. I don't think I'll ever get another job at a big company.
That's why many high payd employees after a while say fuck it and go farming.
In the past you need one person with average skills and commitement to do one simple job. Now you need different teams and few 3rd party providers to deliver the same project. What does definately sucks is the so called management and it's hierarchies. Management mean a very expensive almost rediculus complexity.
A++ Video, to be fair I haven't watched a single video from you that was a waste of time.
Good to see you m8
Damn he is here.
Damn I never knew you watched his videos
I worked in IT for 7 years had a decent run until I started losing interest.
This year I finally took the step and now I'm into carpentry work. And I haven't looked back.
The job is satisfying in a way I feel creative, imaginative, getting physically strong and skillful although on the downside I earn 70% less salary, still the satisfaction is immense.
I’ve dipped my toes in construction. It is super rewarding seeing your progress. Though if you work solo or in a small group the tasks like painting begin to drain on you.
Wow, I'm thinking of doing the same. I like my job, but I'm made to do so many other stupid stuff on the side that has nothing to do with my job that it's honestly annoying. I don't feel like my skills are utilized at all, and I always end every day feeling I could have done more, could have done something more creative and exciting. It's a pathetic feeling to face your unhappiness and disappointment every day. You just have one life. And I don't want to keep working for money. I'd rather do a job that pays less but is more fulfilling than one which pays a lot and leaves you empty inside. It's so inspiring to hear that you've had the courage to finally quit a cushy well-paying job in IT and pursue carpentry. It takes a lot of courage to make that switch and it's truly laudable what you did! Just hope I can do the same soon... put my fears aside and make the switch. Or else I'll definitely have a Fight Club ish breakdown soon 😆😂
Ive been in carpentry/joinery for 5 years now and was looking to actually go into IT haha. My main issue is feeling physically worn down, getting filthy everyday, and not great pay. I cant see many people doing this till the age of 50.
If it was good enough for Jesus.
Isn't thar why we work high paying jobs in the first place - to have the free time and resources to do what we _really_ want to do? So if your job pays 70% less but it gives you multiple hours of enjoyment a day then does it REALLY pay 70% less if you do the math? Imagine you worked your previous job but took up carpentry as a hobby, so you had to work 50% less, so you'd get 50% decrease is salary and also have only half of the time you can dedicate to carpentry now. Instead you now work in carpentry full time and still get 30% of that previous money, without doing any % of work on that job. So, I'd say in a weird, non-straight forward way, you're almost earning more money. Do you get what I mean?
This is why, although I want to earn a decent amount, I'm not super worried about it, because I do think I'll enjoy my job as a teacher. I want to do it independently at some point too so I have more flexibility in HOW I do it, then I think it will be quite fulfilling despite the extra work. It's an important factor. If I work a job I don't enjoy, I better be earning crazy money. But if I do enjoy it, then I'll be fine with less, because in my mind I am so to say already using my time to do what I want to do instead of just waiting for work to end so I can then use the little time and little energy I have left to do what I want.
My job pays $dirt/hour but it is a good job. 70 weekly hours are barely enough. I'm a gym cleaner and I've basically taken over the storage room and turned it into an organized functional place with an employee lobby in it with a floor clean enough to walk barefoot on. The studio rooms are always cleaned and organized to the level of perfection whenever I'm working there. All equipment fits nice and organized. If a member wants a certain weight, they will know exactly where it will be and can grab it as soon as they see it. The instructors and students often thank me for my high quality cleaning. Whenever I do something here, I'm proud of the results I see. Meaningful work is too good to give up
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I tip my hat to you Sir.
Just reading that had the effect of 10 asmr cat videos. You are making the world a better place just by caring that much. Hope you get the respect you deserve.
Now you're stumbling onto something very deep. The managerial class has created these jobs at a thin air, most being paid over $100,000 a year. The pandemic showed how useless they were but they've still somehow managed to justify their existence even though everyone works remote
managers are awesome tho
Being unfulfilled on a daily basis is so mind-numbing. You don’t feel like you’re growing anymore and you become this stunted version of what you could be. This is a great video Nikhil. Thanks man. 💚🐝
@Billy B that would’ve made me feel sad too. It really makes you rethink how we measure success… Income, status, career, education, etc.? Or happiness and purpose? I think it’s possible to have a combination of things going “right” for us. But man, wasting time and feeling without purpose or fulfillment sounds soul-crushing. I am willing to bet you’re more successful than you realize. 💚
I've felt myself losing my cognitive acuity the longer i do mind-numbing jobs.
Exactly how I feel.
Have you managed to find fulfillment?
I went back to being an alcoholic, but I also don't work enough to make any savings by doing bad free-time choices.
At least it keeps me going to work I guess.
I'm 29 and as of now I'll take any job that'll pay me well. But deep down I know I'll never want to do something I don't like once money isn't an issue.
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Same!! Living paycheck to paycheck is just exhausting. But I also feel if I have a job that pays me well enough. I will have the money to create opportunities for myself like funding a business I want to create. You just can’t do that when your focus is working a second job or simply making enough for all your bills.
@@freethinker3083 guys I’m 22 and I do want a high paying job but I don’t know what I want to do and have no skills Fr I might just try the digital marketing path because at this point it’s coming down to I just want to be financially straight
@@TheSTPhelps I’m 33 and I would say pick an industry or craft and really get super proficient at it … the better you are at it the more in demand you will be … sounds obvious I know but i wasted a bunch of time not honing in on anyone one thing and ended up doing a data analyst role, where I could have been in a much higher paid role if I had learned more of the coding/technical side …
I'm going for cyber security but later on once I've saved up half my income for ten years, I'll go straight into getting my masters and doctorate in history. I know that sounds odd, but that is the one subject I'm passionately in love with. I wouldn't mind retiring with that.
This really voices the concerns I have with most coprorate jobs. The world is so convoluted now that it's hard to actually deliver value to people in these roles
bs jobs normally do deliver value but we're too far removed from it for our monkey brains to make sense of it. If you didn't offer any value you would be let go.
Man. Thats why I want to get in a subamrine or whatever
@@ShaferHart yeah you have a point, although there definitely are jobs where no real value is being delivered just the illusion of value
@@ShaferHart Not true at all. Value and merit are the least determining factors in the corporate world.
@@nicosd3017 What was that?
Full-time Cap is really going to town on that UA-cam algorithm with his regular uploads. This guy will one day be the King of UA-cam.
Broo, I thought "fulltimecap" was a youtube channel you were on about. So I used the search bar to try and find it... 😖
@@David-so6kv There's only one "cap" and that's Captain Sinbad. Him and maybe Captain America but we're not doing doing Marvel stuff here.
I became a bicycle mechanic over the pandemic, and it was the most fulfilling job I ever had.
The most fulfilling job I had was being a customer service rep tech support guy for a small company. I basically helped old people find their electronic medical records on their computers. The amount of relief these people had after finding them was amazing lol. They thought they had accidentally deleted them even though my records had shown that they had downloaded the same file about 6 times. It was my lowest paying but most fulfilling. Now I work at a big corporation making more money, yet I work in an administrative role that could be easily sparsed out to several different employees.
The most fulfilling job I ever had was working for a glazing company
How did you get the job? I wanna become bicycle mechanic too !
@@vagusmaximus3711 I was riding everyday and made friends with the guys from the shop. After a while they asked if I wanted to work there.
@@mead813 how u made friends with the owner?
I hate when there is no merit based promotions in that world either. It’s ridiculous
Usually promotions are handed to whoever sticks around and kisses ass
Slavery never ended in america
You gotta be a woman, bro ...
And even if it's merit based, the promotion goes to the person the manager sees himself in aka the mini me syndrome, and not to the person who has different strengths to the manager's.
Merit is often times a very loose term, even in the military the people with the least achievements or lowest working hours or lowest skills often times get the most credit, the truth is merit is extremely difficult to judge and 90% of individuals cannot properly judge actions, so merit, even if properly defined is often times misalocated, thus not perfect.
this hit me hard
I'm still at Uni and doing an engineering course I've been slowly discovering the engineering industry isn't actually as meaningful and productive as I originally expected.
You haven't entered the workforce and already pre-empting it to be fruitless? As an engineer myself you don't represent most of us
@@thewatermelon3831 I never pretended to represent anyone other than myself.
@@goddepersonno3782 that is a weak stance. it's like saying you're a jerk but nah it's fine since it's my opinion so it's fine to say it. go experience it before forming an informed 'representation'.
@@thewatermelon3831 I don't understand what you're saying
I had unrealistically high expectations for the engineering industry and discovered they were unfounded. This has nothing to do with anyone other than myself.
@@goddepersonno3782 the engineering industry basically created almost everything we have taken for granted. the room you're in, the car you drive, the computer you use, the video you watch, etc. someone had to put them all together to see what we see today. engineering deserves more credit than what you see from its academic front, please give it a chance.
that said, i apologise for my ranting. it just irks me when someone discredits the field which i have total passion for
My lowest paying jobs (retail in college) honestly felt more fulfilling than many of the bullshit corporate jobs I've had.
oh wow im glad I never got a corporate job. retail was hell. can't imagine sitting in hamster cage with a bunch of other useless individuals
@@attiumeyami417 Not creating value and non-productive it doesn't make those persons useless
I am studying to become a music teacher and so far I love every part of my work!
Keep going buddy ! 🔥What instruments do you play?
@@jv8studios thanks! I play the piano, trumpet and drums 👍
@@vincentpenschke500 awesome man . Do you make beats aswell?
Do you teach online? I play guitar, been thinking about giving lessons lately
@@normcorecowboy6863 No I dont, I make UA-cam videos in my free time
Wow. I was just having a conversation with my wife about this yesterday. I feel a deep longing to find work that I really find a good connection to - something that gives a purpose. It's not something that's easy to find
It puts me at ease, knowing that there are people out there that are going through the same longings.
i was thinking this just the other day. i work in finance and... to be honest... im not really sure what i do. I open trust funds for banks.. or something. all i know is im working with a bunch of numbers and foreign banks. yet i get paid fairly well... for the little amount of work i do. but one day i went to five guys and it was packed. dozens of people ordering food and these poor teenage and college students were scrambling, cooking burgers, taking orders from angry customers... they work so much harder than i do yet they get paid much less... its all so strange
Thanks for your posting. Would you be game to have a conversation about this? I ask as I'm researching a film project about jobs just like this.
I worked a bs corporate gig and he’s 100% on point. You just align on something all day and do rah rah stuff to make each other feel like you’re making a difference.
Yep, nail on the head there! A prime example from my BS corporate job is that twice a week I update this dashboard that tracks safety notices within the business. It takes me an hour to do, and I do it twice a week. No one looks at this dashboard, it's a complete waste of time. Yet I slave away and do it regardless. But if no one looks at the dashboard, then that means all of the trackers feeding into it are pointless too. This one BS tasks that is of no value to anyone, creates so much pointless work for people.
Dude spot on. I'm a consultant in IT, and going into my 6th year soon, making more money than I ever have and it's strange, because the tasks I do are stupid and have little impact or outcome on society... and then that turns into a vicious cycle of you feeling like an imposter or guilty for earning that much money, while having so much flexibility or free time... In about the 4th year in I started noticing after being to enough organisations that it was ALL the same. Read Graeber's BS jobs book earlier this year and yep, nailed it. So now I am using my free time, during work (since I can get all my tasks done in a fraction of the work week) to skill myself up, build a business and hopefully leave this prison one day :)
As a young person entering the job market in the 90's I quickly found out that it didn't matter WHAT you knew, It only mattered WHO you knew. Thanks.
What matters is who knows you. What changes your life the most is conversations you're not involved in
Who you know and who you blow don’t even really matter much anymore
Yes I saw and experienced this lot of Indian moms working in IT looked down at me since I was taking care of their kids and worked in day care!! most of them dumped their kids as early as 7 am and picked them up at 6pm and people like me spent more time with their kids. But ofcourse they were rude, looked down on us, and some never even said so much as a good morning to me or my co worker. Frankly I felt sorry for them!!
YOU are doing a great work. This is something which most people feel like a useless job.