People are always talking about “improve your work, your jobs, etc” and you'll be a better person. People always equate how much you work or what you do for work as being an example of your personal worth. People pride themselves on working 60 hours a week and having no time to themselves or their lives/families. People pat themselves on the back for being the best worker in someone else's companies. We slave and work away for a small pay increase, letting that dictate our worth as a worker and individual.
And it's everywhere. A lot of the time you can't have a great/amazing relationship with someone unless they have some good job. Which that is stupid and shouldn't set the whole mood and tone to what, who or how someone is. Spending all your days and times working shouldn't make you any more “appealing” to someone than someone working part time somewhere or even doing side hustles. I understand the want for stability but its unfortunate that the world is designed to make people believe the more you work, the harder the job it is (people also pride themselves on doing all this extra physical labor shit just because), etc, makes you a better person than the other.
Your work structure/ethic doesn't dictate your worth and personal being. Susie at McDonald's and Tonya from Marketing Sales (honestly fuck marketing lol) aren't much different; just one has a bit more money, which really shouldn't be a make it or break it situation. Your job status/title shouldn't mean anything. People are designed to think the manager is better than the worker and so on. Which isn't true. Just because you slaved away at your position for years to get a few more duties and a new job title doesn't make you any better a person than someone working at the counter or someone working in the back 🤷️
People put way way too much meaning in this job shit where it practically runs our society.
No working 60 hours just so you could hustle up the most money possible doesn't make you a better person than someone content with working 20-40 hours and still being able to enjoy life. It's unfortunate we have to strive so so much just to be able to live a little luxurious or comfortably tho. Capitalism designed everything and the value of everything to be dependent on how much money you could make. It's unfortunate so many people have to work so hard just to be able to live or they have to work and work to get to some man made position just so they could be comfortably set. Life should be more than just the amount of money you make, the job title you have, the amount of time you put into a job… this. Should. Not. Dictate. Your. Worth. Especially as a man since society has put so much energy and focus into what men do and don't do that makes them a man and apparently you're “not a man” unless you're slaving away for money all the time and are constantly financially comfortable, when it really shouldn't be that hard or demanding.
I know this post is everywhere in the statements and what I'm saying, I didn't onow how exactly to work all of this but I think I got the key points across.