$15-20K/year FT position

If it is in the espresso machine installation and repair business, maybe someone is blackballing you.

Might branch out into bartending or something.

 

Let's score my move from sportswriter to tool-and-die-maker as, on a scale of 1-100, an "other skills" shift of 99.5. Let's say that a shift from sportswriter to college SID would have be an "other skills" shift of, say, 30.

With that kind of thing in mind, just how big of an "other skills" shift was this field for you?

 

No. The company's only responsibility is to pay you in exchange for services provided.

To say they should make sure you appreciate the job, and that the company would be better off for it, is a different argument. It's also largely a falsehood.

 

In other words, it's a business arrangement. I provide services. They pay me. That's all. No appreciation involved.

 

I'd say a 50. Office work, but of a different kind.

 

Now I'm really wondering what line of work you were in.

 

I don't think you know what appreciation means.

I walk into a store and buy a sandwich. It's a business arrangement. They provide me food, and I pay them for it. That's all. Yet I can still appreciate the sandwich.

 

So we aren't allowed to bitch about the journalism industry anymore on this site? That is going to severely restrict the content.

 

Not sure I agree. People seem to think that going to Costco or Publix is a much better experience than going to Sam's/Walmart or other grocery stores.

Costco and Publix are known for paying employees more, including profit sharing and such for Publix. They also are known -- especially in the case of Publix -- of being more expensive but still are very popular.

Walmart recent raised minimum wages at all of its stores because it realized that dispirited employees were bad for business and the experience turned off customers.

 

There is never an obligation to appreciate, nor an expectation.

But people who DO appreciate things overwhelmingly are happier than people who don't. My cousin recently had a lung transplant. Think she doesn't appreciate taking a good breath every morning? Do you?

It's the old "appreciate what I have vs. bitching about what I don't have" conundrum. How you choose to allocate that appreciation will largely determine --- hell, will completely determine --- how happy you are.

 

But you're saying you can appreciate the sandwich, as in there is no obligation to do so. Earlier on, you were saying the equivalent of you should be appreciating the sandwich. There is a difference.

 

But that's not what certain people are saying here. They're saying that if you have a job, you should be appreciating it, rather than treating it like the business arrangement that it is.