Comments on: Don’t Like To Work? (And What You Can Do About It) Part I http://www.baileyworkplay.com/2008/12/dont-like-to-work-and-what-you-can-do-about-it-part-i/ Rethinking Customer Experience & Marketing Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:56:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Chris Bailey http://www.baileyworkplay.com/2008/12/dont-like-to-work-and-what-you-can-do-about-it-part-i/comment-page-1/#comment-898 Chris Bailey Sun, 04 Jan 2009 15:04:03 +0000 http://www.baileyworkplay.com/?p=676#comment-898 Hi Thom, thanks for the comment. I think you introduce another interesting wrinkle: a dissatisfaction with what the media portrays as a "small life." If you're not living lavishly, then you've somehow failed. How to live lavishly? By throwing yourself on the gristmill of work and toiling relentlessly at a high-pressure, get-rich-quickly profession in the financial sector (that is, unless you won the genetic lottery and grew up a trust fund baby). Okay, that's probably an over-generalization but hopefully, my point gets across. I, too, don't think what you suggest is too much to ask. I do think we're not as close to seeing this in our organizations as I would like. There's still a disconnect between business as an economic enterprise and a social institution. I believe they can and must co-exist. Hi Thom, thanks for the comment. I think you introduce another interesting wrinkle: a dissatisfaction with what the media portrays as a “small life.” If you’re not living lavishly, then you’ve somehow failed. How to live lavishly? By throwing yourself on the gristmill of work and toiling relentlessly at a high-pressure, get-rich-quickly profession in the financial sector (that is, unless you won the genetic lottery and grew up a trust fund baby). Okay, that’s probably an over-generalization but hopefully, my point gets across.

I, too, don’t think what you suggest is too much to ask. I do think we’re not as close to seeing this in our organizations as I would like. There’s still a disconnect between business as an economic enterprise and a social institution. I believe they can and must co-exist.

]]> By: thom singer http://www.baileyworkplay.com/2008/12/dont-like-to-work-and-what-you-can-do-about-it-part-i/comment-page-1/#comment-894 thom singer Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:24:11 +0000 http://www.baileyworkplay.com/?p=676#comment-894 I think there is the other one: #8 I dont like to work because society keeps showing me the lives of the rich and famous and it seems way more cool to fly around on jets, eat at over priced restaurants, carry small dogs in designer bags, and lounge by the pool. Nothing my career offers me seems to be that good. Ha, that is my take on why people dont like to work, they are conditioned to think it is best to be a trust fund kid. I like to work. But I want to not feel drugery, I want to feel valued, I want lots of rest, I want to enjoy it at mega high levels, I want the money to bring joy, I want to still have time with my family and I want to like the people I work with!!! Too much to ask? nope, it can happen. I have not figured it ALL out yet, but some of it...and working on the rest! thom I think there is the other one:

#8 I dont like to work because society keeps showing me the lives of the rich and famous and it seems way more cool to fly around on jets, eat at over priced restaurants, carry small dogs in designer bags, and lounge by the pool. Nothing my career offers me seems to be that good.

Ha, that is my take on why people dont like to work, they are conditioned to think it is best to be a trust fund kid.

I like to work. But I want to not feel drugery, I want to feel valued, I want lots of rest, I want to enjoy it at mega high levels, I want the money to bring joy, I want to still have time with my family and I want to like the people I work with!!!

Too much to ask? nope, it can happen. I have not figured it ALL out yet, but some of it…and working on the rest!

thom

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