Ed Weick wrote:
>
> My wife worked for a temp for a time before we were married. She felt that
> she would never be sure of where she would be working, what she would be
> doing, for whom, and under what conditions.
[snip]
> She was in her twenties at the time, so she could take it, but I
> would hate to see people in that position for any length of time.
[snip]
Yes, that is another thing we have lost in the past 30
years: Looking forward to less stressful work
as we get older -- having to "take less of it" as our
capacity to "take it" diminishes.
Please don't get me wrong. I don't think it is right to
overwork and underpay young persons, and for older people
to rise to positions where they inflict what they suffered on
the next generation. But I do think that experience
should count for a lot, and young persons do have a lot
more "youthful energy".
As of this writing, I am more or less coping with keeping
up as a computer programmer with 25 year olds and
even 25 year olds on work visas from Asia, but
at over twice their age, it is very wearying and
I wonder when I will fall and "break my hip" (metaphorically)
or however else get left behind. I certainly
have not *advanced* in 30 years (and am painfully
aware that a large part of the reason for
that surely has been my chronic dissatisfaction with
just doing tech work and being too easily distracted by
such seductions as getting a doctorate in human communication
in my 40s, instead of learning the Microsoft Win32 SDKs).
I am still slowly reading Karl Polanyi's _The Great
Transformation_, which reaffirms my belief that
the economy should be a part of social life rather
than social life being tyrannized and
suffocated by the economy.
"Yours in discourse..."
+\brad mccormick
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that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
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