Typical Work?

Question

I've been curious about this for sometime now. The "traditional", almost stereotypical idea of work are people in suits who go to work at a nice office or firm, and have one of many little square cubicles.

I see this all the time. And yet I wonder, what type of jobs actually invovle this? What type of work entails that seemingly universal idea?

And also, how many people actually work at jobs like that? When I think of work, I always imagine professors, doctors, lawyers, even real estate agents, who don't work in that manner, as far as I know.

Just curious. Thanks for any responses.

Answer 1

Customer service people, commercial real estate, Call center workers, computer programmers, credit card companies, government employees, financial services, auditors, accountants, online stores, etc.

There are countless more. Go downtown and walk through a couple office buildings (assuming you can get in to see the work areas) and you will see that the majority of space is just cubicles with offices for the big cheeses and conference rooms around the outside edges where the windows are. I work in commercial real estate and the majority of the office space is built out with cubicles.

Answer 2

Read the poems, "I hear America Singing," by Walt Whitman and "Chicago," by Carl Sandburg, and you will get a different picture of what makes America tick in the work force, and it won't men in suits. These are magnificent poems that describe what is at the core of the success we experience as a nation.

Chow!!