Reply #40: LanternWaste- A couple of more thoughts on the subject of [View All]

[ladjf]

"slavery";

For 30 years I worked as an educator. Even though the hours were long, the work difficult, I never felt that I was a slave because an educator's job is to help people and there is no one looking over your shoulder all the time. There were lots of opportunities to be creative, to think about values and share them with the students.

I quit the teaching business to go into IT in the corporate world. The difference between the two was huge. While I made three to four times more money, the was very little creativity or freedom involved. My job was to make sure my databases were running correctly and that no one stole or corrupted the company data. I felt like a slave. The companies referred to their employees as "resources". We were just dots on the organization chart.

But, what is important now is that you are comfortable with what you are doing and if you are, I would say that you aren't a "slave". Further, you might have assignments that allow freedom of thought, while working with good colleagues.

Don't take me too seriously. I have developed such a bad attitude about big corporations that it might be skewing my views too much.