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• partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Comfortable people can still have passions and drive.

  Sure, but OP is comfortable and is citing their lack of passions and drive as a problem they want advice for. They’re asking for confirmation that its okay to have no passions/drives or for actions that will change that.

  You don’t need to suffer to want something different.

  Where @Lembot_0002@lemm.ee is going here is that some temporary suffering may underscore with OP that they want something different than suffering which may act as motivation for them to choose a path to continue their easy lifestyle instead.

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• Lembot_0002@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  So what is wrong with my advice? If he likes factory work – he’ll get the real taste of it. If not – it would be a stimulus to find something better.

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  • Alabaster_Mango@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I didn’t say your advice was wrong, I said your mindset was weird to me. I will never knock people going into more manual jobs. The world needs janitors just as badly as it needs doctors.

    Your argument was that their lack of drive is caused by their comfort, and the cure is to toil the days off. In my experience I’ve seen plenty of people in all quadrants of the “comfort vs drive” graph. For example: a friend of mine is worked to the bone in a warehouse, but doesn’t have any drive to look elsewhere. Also, at my last job some of the cushiest positions with very little required work were constantly used as a stepping stone for even higher paying roles with seemingly more responsibility. My friend has a surplus of labor but lack of drive, while the ladder climbers at my last job had plenty of comfort and drive.

    So, in my opinion, I do not think the amount of labor/exhaustion someone experiences in their job has a guaranteed effect on their drive. Your comment makes it seem like you do think that, so that position is “weird” to me.

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    • Lembot_0002@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      You understood me wrong. I didn’t say that toil is cure. I called exposing to toil stimulus.

      I don’t know English so I’m not sure how clear my wording was.

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      • partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Your English was fine and your message clear. @Alabaster_Mango@lemmy.ca is choosing to take exception and believing you are belittling labor employment. I don’t see you doing what they are apparently saying. You are telling OP to experience labor to see if they like it as a career, and if they don’t they’ll know that so they can choose a different career path. Your suggestion is a good one.

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