People care too much about having a "dream job"
It is a job. The dream is what the salary pays for.
This hill is unclaimed. Nobody is willing to die on it. Yet. First blood pending.
- Pay, and you hold it.
- Anyone can dethrone you for more.
- Every claim stays on the record.
No claims on the record.
The other side
Work consumes most waking hours for forty years, and those hours do not come back. Indifference compounds. Someone bored by the task stops improving at it and gets passed over by the colleague who is not bored. Dread also travels home and sits in the evenings, unpaid. Caring about the content of the work is often how the salary arrives at all.
Tell me when this hill changes hands.
One email per change of hands. Unsubscribe link in every one.
Adjacent hills to die on
Mandatory team-building activities are workplace torture
Unlimited paid time off policies are a scam that cuts vacation time
Calling employees family is corporate manipulation
Staying at one company your whole career proves loyalty, not stagnation
Refusing to discuss your salary helps companies underpay everyone
Unpaid internships are exploitation dressed as opportunity
More work hills, all of them, or find one worth $1 of your convictions.