Antiwork

I often see people complaining about their incomes. I would like to know what you are doing, why you were taking that job and why don’t you change? I hope this doesn’t sound judgmental. I’m genuinely curious about your stories. Just to provide some information from my side: I am a System Engineer (for 4 years already) living in a European country (not Germany) with an middle class income somewhere in the upper average of the country. I tried to put a lot of effort into my studies because I always considered this the only way to escape the poverty which I knew from my parents. What is your story? Did you study hard enough? Did you have an incident in your life? Did you follow your dreams? Where you just unfortunate?

Technically, surfing Reddit during office time qualifies.

It’s her first month as a manager so, let this be a good lesson to her about how to be a manager and how NOT to speak to people. And good luck explaining to corporate how you made one of the first employees at this startup quit because you want to run this place like McDonald’s. Peace out!!!

This review of this book “The right to useful unemployment” is helpful for understanding Illich’s writing (a little heavy for me). I do believe training us to be consumers and to not believe in our abilities to take care of ourselves, that we must always turn to “experts”, is instrumental in keeping us trapped in cycles of want and poverty. https://www.workingnowandthen.com/scholarstudent/reviews/ivan-illich-the-right-to-useful-unemployment/#:~:text=In%20The%20Right%20to%20Useful%20Employment%2C%20Illich%20explores%20the%20problems,and%20abilities%20of%20average%20people.

I’ve seen a bunch of texts/ emails where people refer to their boss as “boss” or “sir”, I’ve never used these terms for anyone and it seems really creepy to me