You described any regular workplace.
You are not supposed to find joy in work. Work is something that you do so you can afford to find joy elsewhere.
You are not supposed to find joy in work. Work is something that you do so you can afford to find joy elsewhere.
Why on earth would you discourage someone from finding joy in their work? It's possible.
For the same reason I discourage people believing in Santa Claus or in the Easter Bunny
Finding joy in their work is a cute idea. But it is cute and false, believing in it will lead to nothing but frustration and lower income.
Like, are you reading "find joy" as "find a job doing what you already love"? Those are different things.
This affectation of weary cynicism is so easy and popular. I'm over it.
Absolutely not.
Work with what you love, and you will never love anything again.
Try to find a job that is tolerable and devote your free time to things that make you happy - family, friends, hobbies, etc
What @surgical_fire is describing is the "minimum viable product" for a career. It's the thing that serves the basics on Maslow's Hierarchy.
What @hshshshshsh is describing is anything past that. We briefly exist sandwiched between two eternities -- shouldn't we care about the quality of our time during the thing that takes up the largest quantity of our time?
The problem is that, the issue that @hshshshshsh is pointing out is precisely what makes the minimum @surgical_fire is describing damn near impossible to find.
Because no one gives a shit about users, values, mission, etc, the company suffers and turns into a shit-show, incentivizing people to become more selfish so that they don't get sucked into the vortex of shit.
In order to reach the minimum of a "tolerable" job that doesn't suck up all your free time or make your time there a living hell, the company _must_ engage with at least some of what @hshshshshsh is describing.
This requires some amount of good faith from the majority involved. This is a tricky and fragile thing. It's easy to lose. And thus the cycle begins anew.
Ultimately, we need more people thinking like @hshshshshsh so that we can get what @surgical_fire is describing.