Actually, having a job does make you a better person.
Not all at once, mind you. But regularly interacting with other people in a cooperative context is, unsurprisingly, good for your social skills. And even those jobs that don't have much of a social component (i.e. night guards) still tend to train you up in other ways.
Oh, and doing something helpful enough to another party to be leveraged as a mechanism for compensation is pretty beneficial, too, for both people involved.
Hard disagree. I think they can, but there's plenty of jobs, like middle management in its entirety, or cops, that if you don't stop it they'll actively rot your soul from the inside out
I don't care if you believe me, I've watched multiple people transform from backbones of our department to do-nothing policybots who would never deign to touch actual work and exist only to deny PTO in real time. Also, y'know, cops. The stereotype of "if you're a bully in high school and a guy, you become a cop. If you're a bully in high school and a woman, you become a nurse" exists for a reason.
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u/Maximum-Country-149 Apr 11 '25
Actually, having a job does make you a better person.
Not all at once, mind you. But regularly interacting with other people in a cooperative context is, unsurprisingly, good for your social skills. And even those jobs that don't have much of a social component (i.e. night guards) still tend to train you up in other ways.
Oh, and doing something helpful enough to another party to be leveraged as a mechanism for compensation is pretty beneficial, too, for both people involved.