A week of recruitment agencies and scanning job ads is demoralising. Today I feel I’m not cut out for today’s world of work. I am an individual with a broad range of transferable skills. I do not want to sit all day doing the same thing because the job has been deskilled and therefore devalued. I know how to be polite, how to get things done on time, how to produce something that is fit for purpose and I consider it important to see things through from start to finish. Offices shouldn’t be the modern-day equivalent of the factory conveyor belt!
Now I know why there are so few people of my age working in offices nowadays: they’ve been replaced by youngsters wanting to be part of ‘the team’ and bonding in the pub after work or on management team-building exercises. Those who are still to be found are desperately clinging to their desks, with fear written in their faces. Afraid to rock the boat or attract attention they serve their time, but aren’t visible any more. How bloody annoying when the government wants us all to work until we are 70!
The Industrial Revolution has a lot to answer for – creating wage slaves of us all! Perhaps the solution is to create my own job? Time to think about this seriously!
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