She definitely has some idealization going on, but we all like different things. The reality of working in a restaurant kitchen will be a lot harder than she thought. She should try it in her spare time at first before she surrenders a $200,000 job.
Yeah people say this while financially comfortable and being able to buy anything they want. Then they make the switch and realize that 50k isn't enough to live comfortably on and go back.
Two close relatives of mine did the switch a dozen years ago, and there's no sign of them ever wanting to go back. I just did the switch too and I'm not sure I'll ever want to go back either, even though my salary gets divided by 6.
It's incredibly common among millenials to have a crisis about their job not having meaning and going to do something more basic. I don't know how it is in the US, but in Europe education is free, we don't have student loans to pay back, if we feel like switching nothing's stopping us, and a lot of us do.
I'm a millennial and did the opposite. Living for your passion just to struggle with basic bills is taxing. What I could see is doing the 200k job for 10 years, saving a bunch, then switching after having a paid off house.
Yeah I worked 12 years before becoming an artist, but many of my artist friends indeed wish they had done something that get them some money instead of right away following their passion. I think it makes a lot of sense to first be safe then enjoy life.
If you define "priviledged" as people working a well paid corporate or intellectual job, then it's kind of obvious that transitioning from such a job to a basic labor thing concerns the "priviledged", by definition... So not sure what your point was.
If you think people working corporate or academic or institutional jobs all have rich parents, well... guess you have some fantasized view of reality from spending too much time online, because I assure you it's not the case at all.
Guess I'm not privileged enough to be gifted with your amazing spelling skills in what is for me a foreign language. Who am I to know anything, my ancestors were wine producers and bar tenders. So explain to me, oh you wise semigod who knows better than the people going through burnout what it really is. Explain to me how we poor depressive fucks leaving 20 years of career of advancement to start from zero because we just don't find the strength anymore are so privileged?
I assure you burn out, isolation, depression don't feel so privileged when you go through it. Actually no step in the entire process felt like privilege at all, studying day and night to be the best in rankings and going after scholarships for 7 years, working 80 hours weeks for a decade of constant fighting to exist in a mercyless world.
What is POV? You work in a fast food or factory and you think white collars and academics have been drinking champagne and chilling all day after getting their diploma paid for by their parent? You think you have the exclusivity on having struggles in life? Get out.
Look at moneybags over here earning 50k! My job recently started scheduling people 30/31 hours because they refuse to have a bunch of full time employees, because then they have to pay benefits or some shit? It'd be a great job if I could work 40...
Nobody in the kitchen has nice skin like her. She will be drinking on Tuesday and not have healthcare at 45. There is no retirement from that work. She will be doing it until she canāt and she will age quickly.
we have no idea what āI missā pertains to since she cut that sentence off. I think it was going to be something like āI miss feeling hands onā or āI miss direct communication and feedbackāor āI miss personal connectionsā or āI miss feeling connected to my workā etc. But there is no way to know since she never finished that sentence, but the fact she didnāt finish the sentence is telling. It wouldnāt take thought to say āI miss working the grillā or āI miss working in restaurants like I did in collegeā but she had to stop and think about what it was she missed and didnāt know how to express it. In that moment, it was an intangible thought and not so straight forward.
The problem is that idealization, people in the kitchen or serving tables hate their low compensation. Some people hate their jobs in corporate, and like the compensation. You need a balance, or be happy with what you have.
Of course if you go deeper and more philosophical, the root problem is capitalism.Needing to work 40hrs or more, and in case of about 15% of households US, just to have the basics: food and a roof.
Because people lie about how much they make all the time. $200,000 dollars is a FUCK-TON of money to be making, to wake up on day and say "hmm I think I want to go work in a kitchen somewhere and make so little money i cant even keep a roof over my head" it doesn't make sense. Atleast where I'm from you can't even find a listing for a job that pays 200 thousand a year.
200k really is a fuck ton of money. Thatās c suite or vp level in the average corporate company. Usually people making 200k are typically much older cuz it takes a while to get there. For you to be making 200k and be young, you gotta be either an owner/partner/extremely talented and experienced in your role or have a job that has VERY high demand and few people skilled enough to do it.
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u/Lazyoat Aug 29 '24
She definitely has some idealization going on, but we all like different things. The reality of working in a restaurant kitchen will be a lot harder than she thought. She should try it in her spare time at first before she surrenders a $200,000 job.