When I worked as a radio engineer, I rationalized that I was providing relatively harmless entertainment (popular music, mostly) to the public. And I was one of the first women to hold that job since all the men went off to war.
But most of the other jobs I saw people having were office stuff - creating paperwork and handling it, or else drudgery of service jobs (store clerks, gas station attendants, hairdressers, etc.) I blame the Industrial Revolution for the way people got trained to get up six hours earlier than their bodies wanted, put on clothes that were uncomfortable and unflattering, travel for an hour or so in an uncomfortable vehicle to a place they didn't want to go to, spend eight hours doing something they hated until they were "allowed" to go home, taking the same unpleasant transportation home, to do household chores until they had to go to bed to get up too early next morning. We also made school for children follow that pattern - wake up before dawn, put on suitable clothing, go to a building where everybody's job was to make you follow orders, while in the company of your peers who loathed you, go home and do homework. Turning us into obedient little cogs in the machine.
I saw a cartoon recently, in which a woman is in bed with the covers pulled up to her nose. She says, "All I ever do is sleep, eat, and go to work. How come I'm always tired, hungry, and broke?"
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dancing_serpent
(no subject)
Date: 2025-02-22 04:32 am (UTC)But most of the other jobs I saw people having were office stuff - creating paperwork and handling it, or else drudgery of service jobs (store clerks, gas station attendants, hairdressers, etc.) I blame the Industrial Revolution for the way people got trained to get up six hours earlier than their bodies wanted, put on clothes that were uncomfortable and unflattering, travel for an hour or so in an uncomfortable vehicle to a place they didn't want to go to, spend eight hours doing something they hated until they were "allowed" to go home, taking the same unpleasant transportation home, to do household chores until they had to go to bed to get up too early next morning. We also made school for children follow that pattern - wake up before dawn, put on suitable clothing, go to a building where everybody's job was to make you follow orders, while in the company of your peers who loathed you, go home and do homework. Turning us into obedient little cogs in the machine.
I saw a cartoon recently, in which a woman is in bed with the covers pulled up to her nose. She says, "All I ever do is sleep, eat, and go to work. How come I'm always tired, hungry, and broke?"