Why is it that all of these women have somehow become so
enamored with the idea of a career being this wonderful, life-fulfilling thing
with no parallel in modern society? How
have they come to the conclusion that, of all the things that you can do to fulfill
your life and make yourself happy, that working for a corporation for a
paycheck is somehow the ultimate fulfillment of your life?
I like my job. I
enjoy doing it, and my career is full of personal accomplishments for which I’m
proud, but let’s be completely honest – it is a means to an end, and nothing
more. My career exists so that I can support my family and give them a good
life. Full. Stop.
Without my family, my life would be empty and hollow – full
of personal accomplishment and luxury, but without any real meaning.
If I was independently wealthy tomorrow, there is no fucking
way that I’d be doing this stressful shit day in and day out.
I don’t understand the people who think that a career can
make a person happy. I can’t remember
the last person I’d met who dedicated their life to a career, to the sacrifice
of other things like family, and was honestly happy. Most of them are miserable, avaricious,
self-serving jackasses who think that that next promotion, or the next big deal
will finally grant them the happiness that they’ve been searching for all their
lives, and it pains me to see that it never does.
Feminists in general have simply failed to recognize
this. They’ve become so “grass is
greener on the other side” that they’ve failed to see that it isn’t.
I read an article the other day about how women just want it
all - a “kick-ass career”, as she put
it, and a family that loves her. I’m not
saying that it is impossible to have both of those things, but I’ll bet if you
polled women at the end of their lives, who had tried to have both, and asked
them which of those two actually met the expectations of what they would be,
that the vast majority would tell you that their “kick-ass career” was a
massive disappointment, even if they did do something cool for a living.
Never mind that most women don’t – let’s face it, the female
of our species is far less inclined to risk and the responsibility associated
with that. The “glass ceiling” that
feminists are constantly whining about isn’t a result of women being discriminated
against – no, it’s a result of most women just not wanting to move beyond
positions where they don’t have to put their necks on the line on a daily
basis. So most women fall into support
roles – nurses, secretaries, administrative assistants, accounts
receivables… jobs that don’t require a
lot of risk taking and a lot of executive decision making.
Your job isn’t going to make you happy, no matter what you
call it. You aren’t biologically wired
to take more than a few hours worth of satisfaction from your accomplishments –
otherwise, before we had reason, we’d be sitting back on our laurels
congratulating ourselves about how we killed that mammoth two years ago while
we starved to death. Lasting happiness
can’t come from a job. Can. Not.
It is contrary to our biology in every way.
Find what is going to make you happy and go for it with
gusto, but be warned – if you think that your job is that thing, you will most
likely be in for a huge surprise.
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