Just to make a dent in it. Here is my first English based article (the rest of them were in Russian).
You know what wonders me? Why people just sit in a office doing nothing or doing a crappy job? It seems strange for me that they come each day to the office and get bored, look whole day at a watch, counting how much minutes should they wait until they can leave workplace.
The thing which I don’t understand, what they are getting from it? They spend the same time in the office like hard/smart working people. They don’t receive higher satisfaction from their job. They get (usually) lower salary. They get less respect.
So, why do they choose this?
The only thing which pops up in my head is that they don’t want to think. That process of thinking make their undertrained brains sore.
Anyway, It’s hard for me to understand, why anybody wants to be miserable each day for 8 hours at row, if you can start doing something interesting and feel good about what you are doing.
As a rule, some people are quite lazy to start doing something exceptional for their life.
yeah. I agree. However, I wasn’t even taking about doing something exceptional, it would be nice if people just do decent job.
Mortgage and kids. Only a few can do what Demian Katz (for example) did. But even he quit corpirate, sold his house, and moved down to North Carolina to hack on CouchDB after the job quit him. Otherwise, who knows what he would do. Last episode of Ruby Rogues was a lot about that. Highly recommend that podcast, btw. Great panelist, awesome content.
Sure. Mortgage and kids make people risk averse. However, quite often you don’t have to change a job or quite to find something interesting to do. Sometimes it’s a corporate culture which is toxic, but quite often it’s a personal choice (to do nothing).
Thank you for the reference. However, podcast isn’t my thing. It’s just too diluted (ratio of interesting information to time spent).
agree on the toxic part and personal choice. And podcasts… there are only two settings in which I listen to them: when I drive and when I exercise. so what happens is I anyway spend the time driving or excercising that I can’t do much about (or don’t want to like it is with going to the gym) and get to also absorb a good amount of useful information. Driving and being at a gym accounts for a some 7 – 8 hours of my life in a given week. I figured I might as well double up on it and do audio books or podcast as much in a given week.
I do the same thing. The only difference that I listen some audio lectures (usually psychology or philosophy). I would say they are more information dense than podcasts (at least they work better for me).