Is it possible and practical to be useful in a useless job and useless in a useful job?
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Anything is possible, It's what you make it!!
its definitely possible. but i wouldn't say that being useless is ever practical. in fact useless is the antithesis of practical.
Are you running for Congress??
yes this is the absolute truth
I think the real question here is where's my spoon?
there is no 'kin spoon
Most people are useless in their useful job if they are performing at their maximum ability. Check out the Peter Principle. Being useful in a useless job requires expanding the parameters of the job. If you can do that then your time will be better spent.
It's useless to even try not to be. hmm
not practical but possible, look at all the PH.d's in india answering our calls to dell, microsoft, cingular, any of those business, many overqualified people in stupid jobs, and plenty of jack as*es in jobs that they shouldn't have
A delicious and controversial question. Apologies if my answer is lengthy but I suspect I will enjoy writing this.
I'm assuming that by 'useless' you either mean low paying or unsuccessful.
That said, it is possible and practical to be useful in a useless job. Many uneducated people are highly driven and self-motivated. They will happily take on a low paying job, surpass expectations and develop the role. It's also a way to break into popular industries. The media, for example, is so cut throat that the converse is true: highly educated people are willing to settle for low paying jobs, such as being a runner on a BBC production, to gain essential experience to get their foot in the door. Yet another example of this is the EU migrant program where highly skilled and educated EU citizens are flocking to England and settling for low paying jobs in order to earn pounds.
As for the second part of the question: it is as likely that people, once attaining a job of some significance, allow themselves 'breathing space' and take their position and pay for granted. This is tantamount to being ineffective and as you say 'useless'. In South Africa a scheme was developed to address the social problems of 30 years of apartheid where there is an educational gap in 3 generations because the apartheid government refused black people education. The current solution is what is known as Affirmative Action. In other countries it is known as positive discrimination. The central idea is that an uneducated and disadvantaged person is placed in a high paying and often authoritive position, thereby giving that person on-hands training and an opportunity they may never have had otherwise. The solution is politically and socially ideal but moves away from a system of meritocracy.
I believe that how you do your job is infinitely more important than what you do. It comes down to personal choice: you either make a go of what you're given or you resign yourself to what you've got. It is cliched but the successful worker is generally unrelentingly motivated rather than resigned.
Of course! Just look at congress and federal bureaucrats!
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