Here's one: the reward of work is financial compensation. Bullshit: last job I had paid me better than ever but I felt like a drone filling a hole in the corporate model. Best jobs I ever had encouraged my creativity and the best of those paid the least (per hour, anyway). It points to why Dr. Richard Wolff's revelations about worker-owned businesses is so important. Imagine that you're employed in a fairly repetitive job, the conventional wisdom telling you to suck it up and take your boredom to the bank. Then the company becomes worker owned & suddenly, you're being tasked to contribute your creativity to the running of the company. Very different—and I'd argue superior— job experience. When your parents, relatives, friends lie to you about what "should" influence you career choices (money/status etc,), tell 'em "no thanks" if you see in those suggestions a low possibility of expressing your unique creativity in your worklife.
Here's one: the reward of work is financial compensation. Bullshit: last job I had paid me better than ever but I felt like a drone filling a hole in the corporate model. Best jobs I ever had encouraged my creativity and the best of those paid the least (per hour, anyway). It points to why Dr. Richard Wolff's revelations about worker-owned businesses is so important. Imagine that you're employed in a fairly repetitive job, the conventional wisdom telling you to suck it up and take your boredom to the bank. Then the company becomes worker owned & suddenly, you're being tasked to contribute your creativity to the running of the company. Very different—and I'd argue superior— job experience. When your parents, relatives, friends lie to you about what "should" influence you career choices (money/status etc,), tell 'em "no thanks" if you see in those suggestions a low possibility of expressing your unique creativity in your worklife.