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Cynthetiq · 10-25-2004, 08:02 AM

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Originally Posted by slimshaydee

You tell me this though...would you be inclined to work harder in a job that was interesting, challenging and fun? Or would you be inclined to work harder in a job that was shitty, boring and mundane? I guarentee you would get more productivity in the first case.

I have worked in something close to a sweatshop. I did work for shitty wages. I did it for 3 years and am a better person for doing it. Why? Because it taught me to VALUE all the things that I have now. I didn't have sick days. If I didn't punch in I didn't get paid. If I got hung over and didn't come into work or came in an hour late, I didn't get paid for that hour. If I took time off to go to the doctor, I didn't get paid. When I got in a motorcycle accident I was out for 2 weeks. I didn't get paid. Top it off, I also didn't have health insuranace.

So what did I do about it? I made sure that I had skills that would get me a better job and I applied for better jobs and eventually worked my way up. Let me repeat that, WORKED MY WAY UP.

Understand this too, I had my own consultant company making good money working 3 days a week having fun. Fun all the time. I partied every day and waterskied 3 times a week.

I left that because I knew I had a better opportunity in NYC, so I moved from LA to NYC to take a new job. That didn't pan out and I was left with ZERO, so I took the only job that would hire me immediately which happened to pay me only $4.35/hour.

In that company I also worked my way up. I became an assistant supervisor and then an assistant manager. Pay didn't increase all that much but it was more than $4.35/hour.

Here at MTV we have alot of fun working here. People think that's it's FUN all the time. It's not. Sometimes there's hard work that needs to be done. If we had fun all the time we'd never have anything on the 185 channels we have around the world.

There's time for fun and there's time for work. That's the trade off. I have fun at work even when it's hard because I like hard work. I like challenges. If I had fun at work, how would I ever have fun after work?

If you think that it's supposed to be fun all the time then I guess you don't realize that GOOD comes with BAD.

so I guess you'll just job hop from one to another... and continue to stay in the lower tiers of the workforce. I however will continue to put my head down and work.

now that I've said what I've said, I'm going to put you on ignore because well, considering your posts in this thread, you've got little to no experience in the real world, nor do you have any real experience to bring to the discussion, just theory and assumption.