What Pleasure Do We Really Derived From Working?

Answer 1

The Big Payoff at the end is what we all look forward to. So we can spend spend, and spend.

Answer 2

Sorry, this is a rant, but i rarely answer questions in short.

It's funny, i'm looking for a job in the Netherlands at the moment. Very tough for English speaking with Professional Writing degree ( i know, should have gone with accounting) - anyways... i've been job hunting (letters, emails, agencies etc) for three months solid.

I know that when i get a job i will be the happiest person ever. WHY? turns out that a job does give you money and you can't do a lot in a world that is run by economy! I don't have a job right now, i should be enjoying the time, use my degree to write a novel (almost finished) but all i can think about is getting that job. I guess it means i don't have to go back to the UK so i assign some significant importance, but pleasure? Until i'm publishing novels i will not be enjoying working out there. But we are driven to work simply as a means to live. We feel we have no choice but to be cogs in the machine.

"We are in fact slaves to democracy, and the economy unless we do something we love."

I've worked retail a lot, worked in catering a lot - the only thing that's good was staff parties, discounts and getting paid.

Then i think about those who are on benefits, and some live very well after having a few children (sorry, i mean extra free money for children's support) - and there are people who exploit that and live better then a lot of full time workers, and they say WE ARE THE MUGS for working for our money....

Then there are people who are brought up rich and never have to work in their lives (such as Paris Hilton) however Paris "seems" to be working quite a lot. She is her own comodity however and that's one thing we forget about ourselves, it's everybody around her that is doing the work i imagine. She's a presence, so i guess she is a working presence in "her" world.

WE can make a difference. not the job, not our qualifications, but US... and... maybe a couple of million in the bank to make things happen.... eeek oh well

suppose we are supposed to think we are not important without money. difficult to define that and it depends on point of view.

I guess we have principles that say "we have to do this for ourselves. we have to make our own way" so working is the only way to do that.

Answer 3

If it is only money, either one is unlucky - alas, it happens often - or really in the wrong trade.

There is personal satisfaction of a job well done, being useful to society by contributing one's skill at best, pride of accomplishment and the opportunity for growth (playing golf doesn't count in growth). It is true that one could find all this outside work, in life, but few humans actually clock in the time and hard work required without the gold nugget at the end. Yet, it is not the gold nugget that is the main reason why a job will make one happy or not.

Note that in practice (in Human Resources), it is a well known fact that monetary rewards only go that far in motivating people: it works on the spot, but very quickly forgotten. Honors, favours (e.g. a parking spot, a corner office...), time off, opportunities (e.g. presentations in front of higher management, better visibility...), are all much more useful and heavy in rewarding people.

I am actually stunned at seeing how many complain at no pleasure at all... why put oneself in such a situation? each person is responsible for his/her choices. Not society...

Answer 4

There is no real pleasure in working only the fact that you have completed a job well done and then you are rewarded at the end of the week / month and then you have all that money to pay all those annoying bills that nearly always amount to more than you earned so you then juggle things around . and then go back to work to start it all again

Answer 5

As everyone said it is the money at the end of the week/month, but then again if you weren't working boredom soon sets in because you have lost the routine that you were in.
Work in this case is like a habit such as smoking, you don't like it but you are addictcted to it and without it you get withdrawal symptoms

Answer 6

ive never found any always wishing i could be else where than stuck in a job i hated
when i left school i was expected to take any job going no matter what
pleasure didnt come into it
they say that hard work never killed anyone but ive never met anybody it done any good for either
so sod work let them that want it have it
il live my hippy lifestyle.

Answer 7

There is a sense of accomplishment in doing a job well, and having a successful career......who am I kidding, we work for the money, and live for the weekend !!

Answer 8

The pleasure is we learn to appreciate good hard honest work and the reward is that paycheck we get for that good hard honest work.

Answer 9

Self satisfaction, waiting for the paycheck so that we can spend & dine like a king at the end of the month.

Answer 10

U don;t have to bang ur head with walls of the house or family. Killing time at a diifferent place can also pay u good.

Answer 11

More and more bosses are complete wonkers, i will never work for anyone except myself again. (i had a belly full of unreasonable clueless brainless management attempting to do jobs they got by creeping up the directors ***)