If you think about it, it's a bit surprising how many people, you think, couldn't do his job.
Doing nothing is my hell. Waste of your life.
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#32If you think about it, it's a bit surprising how many people, you think, couldn't do his job.
This and similar support jobs (mental health type jobs) are probably the hardest jobs in the world. Not only for the person doing it, but the requirements for such a thing are just astronomical and not really something you can learn. You can learn aspects of it, but to excel it requires a certain type of person.
> You can learn aspects of it, but to excel it requires a certain type of person.
This is a big problem in employment. To have successful workers the right person needs to get to the right job. Bureaucracy and politics pay are huge deterrents for this type of work. I've seen people who would love to be teachers and they'd be (somehow) okay with a low pay but not with the amount of paperwork and politics they had to deal with.
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#33Well, shit, I'm in the wrong business.
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#34What he is doing is certainly not easy. I can understand why people would pay for it. I'd use it as a form of rubber duck programming, but with an actual person that you have to at least act like you are trying to make understand.
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#36Ultimately, perhaps some of these people are really looking for a therapist.
I think this whole thing comes from a place of generalized loneliness and lack of genuine human contact between people. Technology's other edge has enabled physical isolation quite a bit.
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#37I've been renting hundreds of people who do nothing for years. From Capgemini. Nothing Japanese about it!
But they received no gratitude at all while sending endless requets.
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#39Ultimately, perhaps some of these people are really looking for a therapist.
I saw a lecture on psychology 101-- I think it was the free online one from Stanford-- where the professor said the main benefit of talk therapy is just having someone who cares about your problems for 45 minutes.
So he what he is doing is therapy.
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#40> "I get upset when people simply tell me keep on trying. When someone is trying to do something, I think the best thing to do is to help lower the bar for them by staying at their side" This is brilliant.
On a second read that sentence became even funnier.