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Do you have a job which doesn't make you feel alienated and depressed?

yes. i have a years "incubation space" residency at the art school i graduated from this year. studio space, business support and mentoring, helping us to set up as practising artists and/or makers. i've no idea how viable it is to make a living but i'm giving it my best shot and i've already had a load of opportunities i wouldn't otherwise have had. i'm pretty much unemployable except working for myself...
 
Yes, I work for an anti-poverty charity but thankfully a small one that has a good culture of walking their talk. It's not perfect but I seriously lucked out getting a job here and I try to remember that when the drudge of routine and the SHEER weight of inequality niggles at me. I'd ideally like to work a four day week and have more free time for life stuff/interests/projects and hopefully that will happen in the new year. The time/space will be worth the pay cut.
 
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8ball said:
Some people would seem to be completely immune to alienation.
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Sorry not sure what you mean? I'm self employed, get to work with some nice and interesting people, experience different organisations on a regular basis.
 
I don't mind my warehouse job picking and packing too much, tiny (three people) subsidiary of a much bigger business, so not much faceless management to deal with day to day but also backed so not precarious.
Work physical but not very, unsupervised and steady rather than busy.
 
Sometimes. ....
I am a senior Lecturer in a subject I like and I get to work with interesting and varied students. I am well respected in my job from the students and I really value being a part of the massive transformation in their lives that occurs during their study. My colleagues on the whole are compassionate and interesting people

Downside
Massive workload
Still here at 7 30 on a Friday and loads of work to take home too
Boo
 
Sherman Tank said:
No the opposite, I like helping employers make the right decision and follow the correct procedures, which when it comes to real change needs to involve consultation as well.
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organisational change? do you ever advise organisations to downsize?
 
I like my job and feel that some of what i do is worthwhile, but it does make me feel alienated and depressed. i feel alienated by my managers and some of my colleagues, and by the structure of the system i work in and i feel depressed because whatever i do as an individual, it's not enough.
 
I love my job but sometimes it monumentally depresses me. We have still such a long, long way to go in giving abuse victims the right responses and having the right attitudes surrounding DV, sexual violence etc and it can feel like a neverending slog up Mount Everest sometimes.
 
Orang Utan said:
organisational change? do you ever advise organisations to downsize?
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No, they have decided what they want to do before I get involved, I help them make the changes they want to make in a way that works for everyone, I'm particularly keen on flatter structures, smaller pay gaps and developing the potential of women employees in particular.

Organisational change is not just about "down sizing" but can be about releasing the potential of all workers, introducing proper consultative mechanisms, flexible working, hot desking, remote working, it's endlessly fascinating.
 
Why do people hate HR? They were lovely to me. Sorted my annual leave, helped with my pensions contribution and were very understanding when my pony had a hysterectomy.
 
My job regularly frustrates the hell out of me. I often feel very powerless in the face of structural forces seemingly designed to increase mental health problems. But moments... this week a woman told me the work I'd helped her do had profoundly changed her ability to control her depression and improved her life. Moments like that are unbeatable. Plus I work with a nice bunch, have a kind, if slightly useless, boss and work my hours over four days so I have every Friday at home with my daughter.

It could be a lot worse.
 
Sherman Tank said:
No, they have decided what they want to do before I get involved, I help them make the changes they want to make in a way that works for everyone, I'm particularly keen on flatter structures, smaller pay gaps and developing the potential of women employees in particular.

Organisational change is not just about "down sizing" but can be about releasing the potential of all workers, introducing proper consultative mechanisms, flexible working, hot desking, remote working, it's endlessly fascinating.
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so you're the grease that makes the shafting easier. well done.
 
Had a promising career as a press officer for a skills provider which was far better than 95% of jobs but was nevertheless tediously soul destroying. I quit to become a carer for my disabled mother so she's not bunged in a home to rot. That is immensely satisfying. The government recognises my contribution to propping up the creaking social care system by paying me £60 per week. But at least the hours are fairly flexible, I don't face bullshit appraisals and have my own workstation where I can jerk off to the internet with a few numbers after lunch.
 
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