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Wow good thread.
I had this convrsation a little while ago with a very good friend, we came to a conclusion that a lot of the disatisfaction with the modern work enviroment is due to a feeling of the "worthlessness" of the tasks involved. What I mean by that is that there is something deep in our soul that takes great pleasure from constructing something, actually physically making something. As a person who has worked in both physical and white collar jobs, I can attest to that. I have never felt as good in an office enviroment as when I had spent a hard day actually creating something (I used to work for a builder/landscape gardener).
I once met this guy who had a small one man building firm, just basically doing the odd little job here and there. He told me that 5 years before, he had been the national sales manager for a *big* company, but he just gave it all up becuase he was never happy, he never saw his family, and he never actually felt he CREATED anything worthwhile.... at the time I thought he was crazy, but he may have been the smartest guy I have met up to now....
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"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them."
George Bernard Shaw
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