Comments | supertailz: Maslow's hierarchy of jobs?

supertailz

Maslow's hierarchy of jobs?

Jan 23, 2014 12:17

I was reading rosefox's post about not feeling like a writer because they don't identify with the narratives of not being able to do anything else/being so passionate about it/driven/attacked by muses. And I had many thoughts! (Surprising no one!) So many they didn't fit in a comment. So then I thought I could post in my own journal, which ok, I know is a ( Read more... )

brain chemistry, work less ordinary, family

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evieeros January 23 2014, 19:12:36 UTC

I just left an enormous comment on RoseFox's journal (on her DW because I didn't realize she HAD LJ.) Anyway that's here http://rosefox.dreamwidth.org/1795316.html?thread=13053940#cmt13053940 and I followed her to LJ and found you. So ( ... )

supertailz January 23 2014, 21:24:01 UTC

Epic comment is delightful! It is so nice and reassuring to know other people are thinking about these things too ( ... )

evieeros January 23 2014, 22:08:29 UTC

Oh ugh the "potential" thing ( ... )

rosefox January 25 2014, 06:45:05 UTC

FYI, my pronouns are they/them, not she/her.

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lnbw January 24 2014, 00:03:52 UTC

I find this interesting because the people I grew up around had a VERY different attitude towards work -- there were a few teachers and one notable craftsperson, but mostly they were government workers/lawyers/others who worked in offices (and the craftsperson was not a good role model in other ways). So, work was the thing you did during the day and it gave you money and then you came home to your family and your hobbies. And then I went to a high school where pretty much everyone expected to go into computer science. I still feel like there are a lot of jobs I might have liked that I haven't been exposed to, but -- I also didn't think of publishing as a viable job choice for a long time (or any other creative field) because I didn't know anyone who did it. I didn't think real people had creative jobs. I majored in a subject I enjoyed with every expectation of doing some mysterious job I couldn't yet define in an office. (Which I guess is not untrue! But I thought it would be a boring one.)

fairyrune February 5 2014, 23:02:56 UTC

"How on earth am I supposed to know what I want to do when I don't even know half the options??"

Whoa. Are you me? This is exactly the dilemma I feel like I've been having for years now!