TexasSportsman
Well-Known Member
I was reading an article online how the Gen Z won't accept employment for certain positions due the lack of desire to face the corporate grind. That those positions are soul sucking and don't like the 8 - 5 work hours or commute.
I recall talking to a friend of mine who promoted up the ranks to Lt. Col in the army. He's had a distinguished career. During college he had a friend who was in the same fraternity who excelled in intramural sports and all his courses. He graduated early and had a great start in the corporate world.
I told my friend, the Lt. Col. that I believed I found info on his college friend and sent him the Facebook link. His friend was employed as a range for the US Forest Service. We were both surprised that it was the same guy he knew in college. Its interesting how the road of life takes you where you least expect.
We speculated that he grew tired of the grind and all that went with it. We also speculated that office politics can really suck the soul out of you.
We don't know which forest he's working but we imagine that with his education he was offered promotions over the years which would have taken him out of the field in back into the offices that he really disliked. Of course there is the lower salary of a park ranger but if he hated the corporate world that much the lower pay is worth the trade off.
When I was professionally unemployed I took a job processing court documents at 1/3 of my professional salary. I had to find something to keep the lights on. I worked that job for a year and a half before I was professionally employed again. The job was easy and well beneath my skill level but there wasn't the grind of corporate. At the end of the day I wasn't stressed nor was I up at night thinking about work. Ha ha, I could feel my hair growing back.
I then found professional employment about a year and a half later. I didn't know who well I had it processing court documents. I didn't have to work overtime, holidays, evenings or weekends. I worked 8-4 and I was outta there. I had no deadlines. I didn't have to prepare and present to 40 people or more every couple of weeks. Believe it or not I long for the days of that menial job at $25/hr. processing court documents.
The people that I worked with thought I was lucky to find professional employment again. Was I really lucky or maybe they didn't know that ignorance is bliss and they're lucky that they don't know what I know about the grind.
I recall talking to a friend of mine who promoted up the ranks to Lt. Col in the army. He's had a distinguished career. During college he had a friend who was in the same fraternity who excelled in intramural sports and all his courses. He graduated early and had a great start in the corporate world.
I told my friend, the Lt. Col. that I believed I found info on his college friend and sent him the Facebook link. His friend was employed as a range for the US Forest Service. We were both surprised that it was the same guy he knew in college. Its interesting how the road of life takes you where you least expect.
We speculated that he grew tired of the grind and all that went with it. We also speculated that office politics can really suck the soul out of you.
We don't know which forest he's working but we imagine that with his education he was offered promotions over the years which would have taken him out of the field in back into the offices that he really disliked. Of course there is the lower salary of a park ranger but if he hated the corporate world that much the lower pay is worth the trade off.
When I was professionally unemployed I took a job processing court documents at 1/3 of my professional salary. I had to find something to keep the lights on. I worked that job for a year and a half before I was professionally employed again. The job was easy and well beneath my skill level but there wasn't the grind of corporate. At the end of the day I wasn't stressed nor was I up at night thinking about work. Ha ha, I could feel my hair growing back.
I then found professional employment about a year and a half later. I didn't know who well I had it processing court documents. I didn't have to work overtime, holidays, evenings or weekends. I worked 8-4 and I was outta there. I had no deadlines. I didn't have to prepare and present to 40 people or more every couple of weeks. Believe it or not I long for the days of that menial job at $25/hr. processing court documents.
The people that I worked with thought I was lucky to find professional employment again. Was I really lucky or maybe they didn't know that ignorance is bliss and they're lucky that they don't know what I know about the grind.
