Federal employees LOVE their jobs

THE SIGNIFICANCE OF INSIGNIFANCE

My jaw dropped as I read this article on Federal workers. How can it be people actually like their jobs, especially in a large top down bureaucracy with top management being of questionable intent (ie. psychopaths)?

Now this statistic really gets me. I can't believe the majority of federal workers like waking up every morning and WASTING their life on A JOB when there is greater pursuits to be had like enriching oneself with knowledge or taking some quiet recreation time to reflect or pursing enriching activities to feed the soul like volunteer work, teaching, research, etc that improve the commons and lives of others!

Here are some amazing sentences from the article. Just lunacy!:
1) ...“nearly all Federal employees report that their work is important” and that eight in 10 like what they do.
2) ...only 23 percent of boomers thought “work is just making a living.” Three-fourths of them said they “expected work to be a central part of their lives.”
3) ...“I don’t miss the bureaucracy. I don’t miss the paperwork. I don’t miss a lot of how we do things in government."

Holy smokes these people think they're doing valuable, important, and significant work! Certainly, their work is not missed by the public as much as they miss their work. Okay there are a few important jobs, but the majority are not necessary!

[Article] Federal employees


I see myself doing a job to pay bills. Period. My intent is to get over the "debt hump" where income surpasses liabilities where I can minimally work and pursue the majority of my time on more fulfilling pursuits.

And..... Here's a poll on the private sector with satisfaction numbers just the opposite of federal workers:
[Article] People HATE their jobs

Worst jobs in the world: Cobra Pit Cleaner

Yout hink your job was bad? This guy has to clean a pit full of cobra snakes. No it's not the public cleaning up after Wall Street.

[Liveleak] Worst jobs ever: Cleaning the Cobra Snake Pit

Dr. Govindappa Venkataswamy's Aravind Eye Care Hospital

CURING THE BLIND

This is why you should go to work everyday. Not just to blindfoldedly collect money, but to feel fulfilled and rewarded by improving current and future conditions around you. And if you're not doing this, you're being cheated of a wonderful experience.

So what's stopping you from leaving the monkey cage and the hamster wheel? Is it that chase of the all mighty dollar? The top down business model and decisions made by control freaks have you shackled. So why do we have a top down model? It's so that the psychopathic control freaks have something to do. It's for their job security and enjoyment. Just think Dr. Evil.

Alas, we have come to this question. Who's really blind and when do we cure the blindness?

[WMV] Dr. Govindappa Venkataswamy's Aravind Eye Care Hospital cures the blind

Alternative link if the link above doesn't work.

Richard Wolff - On Cooperation and Companies run by Employees 12-02-2009

A DEMOCRATIC WORKPLACE

Richard Wolff is an Economics Professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Here is a speech conducted at Brown University, Providence RI on 12-02-2009.

I've rambled about cooperatives before on the blog. Just check the tag cooperatives.

Cooperation. Cooperatives. Owned and run 100% by workers. It's a better than the top down model we currently have now. Why work in a hostile, demoralizing work environment when you can enjoy what you do and have control over your future in a cooperative? Share your fair share of the profits and losses. Be accountable. Be responsible. Isn't it ironic that people that quit fulltime jobs to start their own companies are actually building on the cooperative model? Would they startup and participate in a company where they do not share the profits fairly or do not control their own destiny?

Modern day corporations are citadels of fascism. Every morning, workers come into an environment of a totalitarism where decisions are made from a disconnected, hidden, omnipresent, and self appointed dictatorship.

Currently, 1/3rd of all the profit goes to the tiny number of executives of the company while the worker bees are expected to produce more and be paid less than last year. It's a great way to take control away from citizens and make them dependant on the source of income. What a way to become a slave of the system!

More at http://socialistworker.org

[Youtube] Richard Wolff on Socialism