I don't even think that actually touches on the point here. People want purpose, meaningful purpose out of the thing they spend most of their lives on. Unionizing isn't going to give you job satisfaction if you're a data entry operator unless that's something you find fulfilling.

I work in IT and used to be passionate about computers and the internet but now I want to do something else and get away from the grind of IT work, where nothing is ever completed or provides a sense of accomplishment. There's no meaningful purpose in it for my life other than a paycheck.

Unionizing might help with getting better pay for work but in terms of actual purpose, fulfillment and job satisfaction unions are as useful as advocating for a car club when I'm changing my oil. Completely unnecessary and unrelated and doesn't address the goal at hand.

This is something that's an individual pursuit beyond days off and pay.

Its probably the only way we will be able to fight wallstreet and climate change.

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purpose is great and all but another tactic is to pay high enough that I take the job.

Without naming the firm, I'm a refugee from public accounting.

Back when I was a staff accountant, and we were all making roughly $60k a year, they brought us all into a meeting in the middle of busy season to discuss work/life balance and mental health.

The solution they offered?

Simply hire a full-time live in housekeeper who does laundry and cooks!

That was it. That was the meeting.

Probably, but the article is not wrong, these are huge factors that drive my decisions, and I have flat out told employers in interviews that I take issues with aspect of how companies run. Im sure some roll their eyes, but honestly I dont care, im not going to devalue myself or my ethics just to make them more money.

Ditto. I know someone who actively shudders when they hear the name. He repeatedly thanks me from saving him from what he said was actively destroying his soul.

Interested in what you've heard? So far most people I know working at Deloitte love it.

Deloitte staff don’t act totally dead inside (from my experience). EY staff, though, act like they’ve looked inside the abyss and it stared right back at them. That place must be one soulless meat grinder of a business factory.

But have you considered how much Return on Investment you can provide shareholders by denying people life at the click of a finger? /S

Honestly, I applaud you: more people should deny these morally bankrupt jobs. But it's sad because some don't have the choice because pressures put on them by our shared reality. This system shakes our humanity, and in turn makes people numb to denying others humanity.

That doesn't prevent your work from having meaning. Over the years I've had the full range, from purely physical mindless labor to earn a paycheck, to projects that meant so much to me I once responded to a salary requirement with "Hell I'd basically do this for a ham sandwhich".

It took a lot of effort, time, training, and sheer stubbornness on my part, but here I am in middle age, having finally found a work life balance that is just about perfect.

The work I do is interesting, challenging, unique, and has benifit for the entire company and more importantly, my fellow employees.

I could make more by taking different job, but the added stress, hours, and lack of meaning to me doesn't make it worth it.

I could find a more fulfilling job, but likely at a pay cut that would lower my standard of living too much.

The important part to me is, I look forward to my work. I'll work in the evening or on weekends a bit just because I've thought up a solution and the problem solving is fun for me.

Even when I have to do the shit parts of my job, it never wears on me since it's part of a greater whole. While making money is obviously important, and a big part of why I have a job at all, just making money can't be all of it.

Getting home at the end of the day from backbreaking labor, doing work that feels shady, takes advantage of people, or supports an industry that I don't agree with, leaves me feeling a sense of dread about going back the next day. I can't enjoy the time that is mine as much when I know I have to go back to that tomorrow.

As with all things this can be taken to extremes, but I think it's great that young people care about the wider implications of their work, and the value it brings to them.

This can only lead to better working environments, and hopefully, more ethically minded buisnesses.

I'm sorry man that's reallocated sad

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I seek good coffee, but sadly, cannot find that either.