SchrodingersMeerkat
trash mammal
How to find motivation to work at a job you don't like?
This has honestly always confused me. My older brother says if you do enjoy it then it is not a job. But yet seems to enjoy his job as an auto mechanic. Even as kids he was a grease monkey. he said if I could get paid play with meerkats for hours I probably wouldn't like it anymore. Duddde! Do you not know your own sister? Anyway I would sense there was a catch and some would sooner or later try to take advantage of me like my stupid horse riding instructor did when I was cleaning her stables. One day she wanted me to clean her house. Sorry lady the deal was stables. If you wanted me to clean your house, you should have addressed that earlier... and also hired a maid.
Anyway, my autistic ex-boyfriend now works at a grocery store and never says he likes it. When I asked him why he still stays there he says because of the money (which he obviously doesn't know how to spend). I honestly could never work at a job I was unhappy with no matter what they paid me. Maybe this is a direct result of the ABA type parenting my mother did when I was younger. Basically give me a new toy whenever I behaved or did my chores instead of having me save money to buy it myself. She says the ABA type token exchange did nothing but turn me into a trained seal that would only perform what you wanted from it in exchange for the treat at the end. As soon as I had to start working longer for a treat or the treats got smaller, I stopped working for them. I never understood how I was supposed to hang on to the plastic chips and just save them. I worked so hard on my homework the first day of the third grade hoping to get the stuffed cat... Only to get one plastic chip. I threw it back at my mom and threw all the rest of the plastic chips on the floor and had a meltdown after she told me I could have the cat when I got 30 chips. (Said cat probably only costed a buck from the dollar store) My mother ended up just letting me have the cat and gave up with the token exchange system. I didn't understand the concept of grades either. Okay, I got an A... Now what? Do I trade this A in for something tangible? No? Then what is the point of it?
School did not work for many reasons. I did not understand the grade system until high School when I was being homeschooled by my mother who wasn't an evil sociopath like all my teachers in public school. If I had a teacher who liked me and gave me a chance, I wanted to work hard and please them. But if they're going to be nasty to me from the start, I won't.
As for a job, I'm pretty sure I could not work at a place I hated. I need to quit or get fired my first day. Grocery stores or fast food I could never work at. Exotic Pet store, dairy farm or horse boarding facility might work though... If contact with the animals was part of the job... And it did not involve things I believe are cruel.
This has honestly always confused me. My older brother says if you do enjoy it then it is not a job. But yet seems to enjoy his job as an auto mechanic. Even as kids he was a grease monkey. he said if I could get paid play with meerkats for hours I probably wouldn't like it anymore. Duddde! Do you not know your own sister? Anyway I would sense there was a catch and some would sooner or later try to take advantage of me like my stupid horse riding instructor did when I was cleaning her stables. One day she wanted me to clean her house. Sorry lady the deal was stables. If you wanted me to clean your house, you should have addressed that earlier... and also hired a maid.
Anyway, my autistic ex-boyfriend now works at a grocery store and never says he likes it. When I asked him why he still stays there he says because of the money (which he obviously doesn't know how to spend). I honestly could never work at a job I was unhappy with no matter what they paid me. Maybe this is a direct result of the ABA type parenting my mother did when I was younger. Basically give me a new toy whenever I behaved or did my chores instead of having me save money to buy it myself. She says the ABA type token exchange did nothing but turn me into a trained seal that would only perform what you wanted from it in exchange for the treat at the end. As soon as I had to start working longer for a treat or the treats got smaller, I stopped working for them. I never understood how I was supposed to hang on to the plastic chips and just save them. I worked so hard on my homework the first day of the third grade hoping to get the stuffed cat... Only to get one plastic chip. I threw it back at my mom and threw all the rest of the plastic chips on the floor and had a meltdown after she told me I could have the cat when I got 30 chips. (Said cat probably only costed a buck from the dollar store) My mother ended up just letting me have the cat and gave up with the token exchange system. I didn't understand the concept of grades either. Okay, I got an A... Now what? Do I trade this A in for something tangible? No? Then what is the point of it?
School did not work for many reasons. I did not understand the grade system until high School when I was being homeschooled by my mother who wasn't an evil sociopath like all my teachers in public school. If I had a teacher who liked me and gave me a chance, I wanted to work hard and please them. But if they're going to be nasty to me from the start, I won't.
As for a job, I'm pretty sure I could not work at a place I hated. I need to quit or get fired my first day. Grocery stores or fast food I could never work at. Exotic Pet store, dairy farm or horse boarding facility might work though... If contact with the animals was part of the job... And it did not involve things I believe are cruel.
