当然,这些都是极端的例子。我们中的大多数都过着相对正常、基本满足的生活。但即使在我那些比较乐观的同学中间,职业上的失望情绪也挥之不去。他们谈论着错失的晋升机会、疏远的孩子以及离婚法庭的可计费时数。他们抱怨工作没有成就感、单调乏味,或者干脆就是糟糕。一位同学描述,他每天必须投资500万美元——这听起来并不可怕,直到他解释说,如果他周一只投了400万,那么他将不得不在周二努力投入600万。而为了谋求下一次晋升机会,他的同事们总是在互相诋毁。那是一项压力巨大的工作,并且要在他不特别喜欢的人中间完成。他一年能挣大约120万美元,他讨厌上班。
“I feel like I’m wasting my life,” he told me. “When I die, is anyone going to care that I earned an extra percentage point of return? My work feels totally meaningless.” He recognized the incredible privilege of his pay and status, but his anguish seemed genuine. “If you spend 12 hours a day doing work you hate, at some point it doesn’t matter what your paycheck says,” he told me. There’s no magic salary at which a bad job becomes good. He had received an offer at a start-up, and he would have loved to take it, but it paid half as much, and he felt locked into a lifestyle that made this pay cut impossible. “My wife laughed when I told her about it,” he said.
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